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Didcot powerstation

I saw on the news earlier that this morning they blew up the last of Didcots cooling towers  the demolition went ok but the dust cloud caused a flashover in the substation that is still used to supply parts or maybe a

all of Oxfordshire  I bet the grid engineers were tearing there hair out after last weeks events
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  • Perhaps I should ask my chum who lives within sight of the place?


    Thankfully, there were no casualties.


    What rather staggers me is that the lifespan of the place was only about 40 years, which begs a couple of questions:


    (1) What was the intended lifespan in the original business case?


    (2) How much energy has been consumed in both building and demolishing the place?
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  • Perhaps I should ask my chum who lives within sight of the place?


    Thankfully, there were no casualties.


    What rather staggers me is that the lifespan of the place was only about 40 years, which begs a couple of questions:


    (1) What was the intended lifespan in the original business case?


    (2) How much energy has been consumed in both building and demolishing the place?
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