According to the article 'Save and prosper' (
Production Engineering, 15 September) 'the use of digital automation is claimed to boost the efficiency of coal-based electricity generation by more than 50 per cent.'
I think that someone is pulling our legs somewhere. I suspect that what the writer meant to say was that the use of ultra-supercritical steam conditions can boost efficiency of coal-based electricity generation by more than 50 per cent.
Alain Foote
Alstom, Rugby
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