Carrier was chosen to construct the new parts because of the quality of work they do. At the University there are some retired engineers from the coal industry who like to volunteer and work on coal projects. They suggested a horizontal tumbler instead of vertical. Why? When volatiles are removed voids are left in the coal. The tumbler fills the voids the vertical process does not. My guess is that the engineers have worked with Carrier and trust their quality. Nothing is happening as soon as we would like, and this is just "stuff" we were told, so believe as your own risk. There are a couple of people here who have some pretty good info. You know who you are.
and three years of .. fluffy gonna's and a lonely slab to show for it all... from all these company's involved. at least CCTI has the slab .. I'm tellin ya progress... but wait it's coming. ps CCTI needs to put up there bucks to get the match.
This gives ECED/SoER some breathing room while they wait on the matching grant from the U.S. EDA. With our luck, the check was probably lost in the mail. I suspect $500k of those funds will be thrown our way in that UW matching grant to CCTC. If that's the case, then CCTC has to sit on their matching funds as well; which could explain the hold up in final assembly.