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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 30, 2024 16:20:35 GMT
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s last coal-fired power plant is closing on Monday, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation that sparked the Industrial Revolution. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station in central England is finishing its final shift at midnight after more than half a century of turning coal into power. The U.K. government hailed the closure as a milestone in efforts to generate all of Britain’s energy from renewable sources by 2030. Plant manager Peter O’Grady said it was “an emotional day.” apnews.com/article/uk-last-coal-power-station-closing-9e6b792f27513e3b02904da1eaedfbf3Also today Monday Sept 30, marks a significant turning point for the British steel industry with the closure of the last operational blast furnace at Port Talbot with the loss of 1,900 jobs and additional redundancies across the UK. pembrokeshire-herald.com/99709/end-of-an-era-at-port-talbot-as-last-blast-furnace-closes/A sad day. Coal and steel built an empire, they built the modern world. I firmly believe we are attempting to run before we can walk so politicians can look virtuous. The trendy rush to demonise coal in the west will have economic consequences for the future. |
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Post by Montegriffo on Sept 30, 2024 16:31:45 GMT
Climate change will have economic consequences for the future.
As for the last coal fired power plant closing, in the words of Margaret Hilda Thatcher... ''Just rejoice at that news''.
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Post by Bentley on Sept 30, 2024 16:36:00 GMT
Climate change will have economic consequences for the future. As for the last coal fired power plant closing, in the words of Margaret Hilda Thatcher... ''Just rejoice at that news''. Somebody copy that and send it to China . India too maybe . |
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Post by Montegriffo on Sept 30, 2024 17:00:01 GMT
Just like the British Empire, coal is history.
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Post by sheepy on Sept 30, 2024 17:16:48 GMT
You mean all those trees I have been getting the Eden project to plant for me haven't made an iota of difference, Bugger
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 30, 2024 17:30:34 GMT
This is typical of the propaganda and misinformation put out by clueless lefties, the inference being 'look at all that dirty smoke'. Whether by design or ignorance they neglect to mention the fact that it's a picture of steam, not smoke. Cooling towers produce harmless steam, water vapour.  |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 30, 2024 17:31:45 GMT
Climate change will have economic consequences for the future. As for the last coal fired power plant closing, in the words of Margaret Hilda Thatcher... ''Just rejoice at that news''. Somebody copy that and send it to China . India too maybe . You beat me to it, well said. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 30, 2024 17:32:08 GMT
Just like the British Empire, coal is history. Peasant. |
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Post by Pacifico on Sept 30, 2024 17:33:34 GMT
Climate change will have economic consequences for the future. As for the last coal fired power plant closing, in the words of Margaret Hilda Thatcher... ''Just rejoice at that news''. Hmm - yesterday morning we were importing over 25% of our energy, and that doesn't include the gas and wood chips we shipped in to burn. We are destroying tens of thousands jobs and deindustrialising the country on a wild goose chase to Net Zero that will have absolutely no impact on climate change. Future peoples will look back and wonder how we could have been so stupid. |
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Post by jonksy on Sept 30, 2024 17:35:37 GMT
Just like the British Empire, coal is history. Best you explain that to the population of the Falklands... |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 30, 2024 17:45:20 GMT
Climate change will have economic consequences for the future. As for the last coal fired power plant closing, in the words of Margaret Hilda Thatcher... ''Just rejoice at that news''. China has 1,182 coal fired power stations. In 2019 the CEC (China Electric Company) pledged to build no more than two new coal fired power stations a month until 2031. China currently burns 4½ billion tonnes of coal a year, a figure than has gone up every year since 2017. China are building coal fired power stations in at least six other countries and you can bet they will all burn Chinese coal. Closing British power stations will make not a jot of difference on a global scale. But it will, indeed it has damaged the economy not least of all through lost jobs but we are are now importing more electricity and gas than ever. Including importing fracked shale gas from the US when according to the British Geological Survey we have trillions of cubic meters of shale gas in this country. It's economics of the mad house. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 30, 2024 18:02:33 GMT
Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, 1968 - 2024.  |
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Post by Bentley on Sept 30, 2024 18:10:23 GMT
Just like the British Empire, coal is history. Apart from between the ears of lefties the British Empire ended soon after WW2 . Coal isn’t history .Ask the Chinese . |
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Post by Bentley on Sept 30, 2024 18:14:22 GMT
The Net zero agenda is like insisting a few people stop pissing in the deep end of a swimming poll while allowing a crowd of people are shitting in the deep end .
It only serves to make lefties feel warm and fuzzy inside .
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 30, 2024 22:42:11 GMT
This is a pic of Rugeley B which lasted from 1970 to 2016, where I worked for a few years until it closed. Rugeley A (1961 -1995) was just behind and a bit to the left of this picture as you look at it. We had the biggest boilers in the country, some say in Europe. Rugeley A had five boilers, Rugeley B had just two, but they were huge, 200 ft tall. You had to see those boilers to belive it. They were in the dirty looking building in the left of pic, that's the boiler house. It's a real shame its all gone.  |
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