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Old King Coal
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2024 4:05 pm
by dan_b
2 weeks until the end of Coal in the UK on the electricity grid, seems timely to post this graphic...
Hopefully we'll see a similar pattern for gas (and Drax's wood chip) before too long as well.
Re: Old King Coal
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 9:21 am
by dan_b
Carbon Brief has written a rather cool Q&A on the imminent death of coal on the UK Grid
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseout-UK/
"From 1882 until Ratcliffe’s closure, the UK’s coal plants will have burned through 4.6bn tonnes of coal and emitted 10.4bn tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) – more than most countries have ever produced from all sources"
Re: Old King Coal
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 10:04 am
by nowty
Unfortunately, on a similar timeline graph the world use of coal looks very different.
Re: Old King Coal
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:08 pm
by chris_n
Coal generation has just shut down in the last quarter of an hour, is that it now finished I wonder.
Re: Old King Coal
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:38 pm
by nowty
chris_n wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:08 pm
Coal generation has just shut down in the last quarter of an hour, is that it now finished I wonder.
It might be but there is still 2 official days to go to the 30th Sept although the world is still burning coal at the same rate as a decade ago.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq5e4n5z888t
And the UK is still burning wood imported from the USA with no end date in sight,
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ays-report
Re: Old King Coal
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:44 am
by Joeboy
We did see a few full coal barges on the Rhine heading upstream from K681.
More sand barges than coal so at least that's something.
Re: Old King Coal
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:15 am
by spread-tee
A brand new coal burner just finished after a 15 year build
I wonder if a case could be made for some small scall UK mining for these beast as well as chemical industry feed stock? I think at the Bluebell railway the talk is of importing coal from China which seems a bit daft.
Desp
Re: Old King Coal
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:16 am
by spread-tee
spread-tee wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:15 am
A brand new coal burner just finished after a 15 year build
I wonder if a case could be made for some small scall UK mining for these beasts as well as chemical industry feed stock? I think at the Bluebell railway the talk is of importing coal from China which seems a bit daft.
Desp
Re: Old King Coal
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:28 pm
by Joeboy
spread-tee wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:16 am
spread-tee wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:15 am
A brand new coal burner just finished after a 15 year build
I wonder if a case could be made for some small scall UK mining for these beasts as well as chemical industry feed stock? I think at the Bluebell railway the talk is of importing coal from China which seems a bit daft.
Desp
Can you get a good wheelspin out of it?
Are all coalmines in UK closed now?
Re: Old King Coal
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:46 pm
by ecogeorge
Forest of Dean free miners do exist and are exempt ........... but is very small scale and not high quality coal....