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Bacton Gas Terminal.

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Update. CCGTs need gas. The Bacton gas terminal is too close to the North Sea and may be susceptible to sea ingress as in 1953. The protection method is to use sand and not concrete. Will it provide long term protection? Only time will tell. I am dubious.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-49024354/huge-sand-dune-designed-to-prevent-major-gas-terminal-falling-into-sea


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    I can't see sand being much good as it tends to get washed away every year the council have to fetch Weymouth beach back from the Isle of Wight. Of course I'm no civil engineer but to my mind sand poor cement good
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    As King Cnut pointed out, even a king cannot hold back the tide. ?
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    Kelly Marie:

    I can't see sand being much good as it tends to get washed away every year the council have to fetch Weymouth beach back from the Isle of Wight. Of course I'm no civil engineer but to my mind sand poor cement good




     

    The trouble with hard defences is that they can cause unintended consequences further down the coast.  The sand piles up behind your new defences, and you get a nice stable beach.  But everybody further along is now getting no sand washing along, and their coastline starts eroding even faster than it was before.  You then have to build more defences to protect them, or risk being sued when their property falls into the sea.
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    Chris Pearson:

    As King Cnut pointed out, even a king cannot hold back the tide. ?




    We have to be so careful with spelling certain words these days?


    Z.

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