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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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0 kfh over 4 years ago

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However, Magic Grandad is a complete imbecile and has not the faintest perception of what re opening a UK coal industry would require - plus it appears he has no concept of the falling demand for coal, worldwide

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I am not convinced that coal use is going to decrease much with China still increasing production and financing coal power stations in other countries.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2019/01/23/coal-is-not-dead-china-proves-it/

I wonder how much of our decrease in CO2 is a result of off shoring our manufacturing to other countries using coal for much of their electricity generation.
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0 kfh over 4 years ago

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However, Magic Grandad is a complete imbecile and has not the faintest perception of what re opening a UK coal industry would require - plus it appears he has no concept of the falling demand for coal, worldwide

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I am not convinced that coal use is going to decrease much with China still increasing production and financing coal power stations in other countries.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2019/01/23/coal-is-not-dead-china-proves-it/

I wonder how much of our decrease in CO2 is a result of off shoring our manufacturing to other countries using coal for much of their electricity generation.
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