"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:40:11 -0500, "Happy"
wrote:

I
have a cool video of a coal barge burning...really just smoking badly from
hot coal"

Most coal has a goodly amount of hydrocarbons in it. It is highly
subject to spontaneous combustion. Power plants pack the piles with a
roller, to exclude air. Otherwise they catch fire. The smoke means
that the coal in that barge is on fire.

Casady


*Burning* it was a AEP Towboat and hell yes it was burning and I'm sure they
had water on it,,, I have experience with such things as Towboats and marine
transportation. I would have stopped the boat and dowsed the flames....this
guy could be on the nightly news on up the Ohio,