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CCGT Generation.

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When we look at gridwatch we see just how gas is vital as a contributor to electrical generation. Just down the road from me is the Bacton gas terminal right next to the sea. The site is just above sea level on a sandy cliff top site. The local newspaper reports the sea defences are to be strengthened by the importation onto the beach of some 1.8 million cubic metres of sand along that section of coast to protect the Bacton gas terminal and houses there.


This method was tried previously at Horsey, just down the coast. Unfortunately within 2 years the sand had been removed by natural tidal wave action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacton_Gas_Terminal



Z.
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    Seems an odd choice knowing that the east coast is likely to end up being swallowed by the North sea. I would have thought concrete barriers, gambion walls and similar would have been more appropriate.


    Legh
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    We are indeed very reliant on CCGT generating plant and on the gas import terminal at Bacton.

    If the present sea defences do not prove satisfactory I suspect that an alternative may be tried. One possibility is the dumping of very large boulders a little below high tide level. This does not keep out the water, but the force of the waves is largely expended against these rocks and the natural coastline thereby protected from erosion.


    In time, the area to landward behind the boulders tends to silt up and become a new salt marsh.


    In the longer term the gas import terminal may have to be re-located, though it is debatable if any gas to import will be available by then.
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    At the moment, the Americans have got more gas than they know what to do with.  That's why they stick it on boats and ship it to us.  It's a by-product of fracking for oil.


    i expect there will be gas found somewhere in the World for many years to come, but the economics of shipping it long distances may not add up.  I suspect peak oil will be reached not when the oil runs out, but when it just gets too expensive to extract, and the same is likely to go for gas.

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