Old King Coal

[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.

[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"

[nowty]

Unfortunately, on a similar timeline graph the world use of coal looks very different.

[chris_n]

Coal generation has just shut down in the last quarter of an hour, is that it now finished I wonder.

[nowty]

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

[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.

[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

[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 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

[Joeboy]

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?

[ecogeorge]

Forest of Dean free miners do exist and are exempt ........... but is very small scale and not high quality coal....