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No Power Station Coal Please.....I'm British.

Coal must be feeling a bit left out of things.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48473259


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  • Ghazipur  is a very interesting example, as it (and the other dumps around Dehli) has a relatively new waste to energy program that is essentially an incinerator and generator, making ~ 12 Megawatts output, for  ~ 1500- 2000 tonnes of rubbish per day. This is not doing much in terms of reducing the original pile, but is at least reducing  some of the incoming material to a smaller volume of less offensive ash, and supplies some power on the side.

    If could be better if burnable rubbish was presorted, but there is no effective city wide separation of rubbish (unlike the brown bin black bin type of schemes we have in the UK) and this is exacerbated by a historical culture system that seems to encourage the upper classes who create the bulk of the mixed waste to think the problem of sorting it by type belongs to the lower classes who should collect and sort through it, but really sorting at source would be better.

    It also makes you realise that while things are not perfect here, there is scope for a lot bigger problems.

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  • Ghazipur  is a very interesting example, as it (and the other dumps around Dehli) has a relatively new waste to energy program that is essentially an incinerator and generator, making ~ 12 Megawatts output, for  ~ 1500- 2000 tonnes of rubbish per day. This is not doing much in terms of reducing the original pile, but is at least reducing  some of the incoming material to a smaller volume of less offensive ash, and supplies some power on the side.

    If could be better if burnable rubbish was presorted, but there is no effective city wide separation of rubbish (unlike the brown bin black bin type of schemes we have in the UK) and this is exacerbated by a historical culture system that seems to encourage the upper classes who create the bulk of the mixed waste to think the problem of sorting it by type belongs to the lower classes who should collect and sort through it, but really sorting at source would be better.

    It also makes you realise that while things are not perfect here, there is scope for a lot bigger problems.

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