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Didcot powerstation

Kelly Marie Angel
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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    kfh:


     


    OMS:

    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



    OMS


     




    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.

     


     



    This use is short term though -  overall the market is dying a death, and the use of coal fired generation is clearly on the way out


    Regards


    OMS
     

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    kfh:


     


    OMS:

    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



    OMS


     




    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.

     


     



    This use is short term though -  overall the market is dying a death, and the use of coal fired generation is clearly on the way out


    Regards


    OMS
     

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