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The Day Coal Dies

This topic has 6 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 30 September 2024 at 10:22 by Michael Gilligan.

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30 September 2024 at 05:22 #756665
Michael Gilligan
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This is, I suggest, worth reading:

https://apple.news/AXzxgQXnKSAi3Lo8gssr07A

MichaelG.
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30 September 2024 at 07:52 #756681
Nealeb
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…but only if you are prepared to accept their cookies or pay.

I guess that this is a reference to the same story I heard briefly on the Radio 4 this morning re stopping the use of coal for electricity generation? Just had a look at https://grid.iamkate.com which takes in data from various sources and which shows a non-zero amount of electricity coming from coal. Generators spooling down? I know that others use different sources to look at power generation statistics – any other data around?
30 September 2024 at 08:31 #756683
Michael Gilligan
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On 30 September 2024 at 07:52 Nealeb Said:

…but only if you are prepared to accept their cookies or pay […]

That pop-up is new … I saw nothing-such this morning, when I read the article and posted the link.

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30 September 2024 at 09:20 #756690
Vic
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On 30 September 2024 at 08:31 Michael Gilligan Said:

On 30 September 2024 at 07:52 Nealeb Said:

…but only if you are prepared to accept their cookies or pay […]

That pop-up is new … I saw nothing-such this morning, when I read the article and posted the link.

MichaelG.

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I clicked on your link and the article was fully accessible in Apple News.

I read a while ago that some Coal power stations have been run on “Biomass”. I think this is waste wood pellets from Canada?
30 September 2024 at 09:47 #756702
noel shelley
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May be this and the closure of the blast furnaces at Port Talbot should be a wake up call to those of us who have coal fired models to stock up with fuel ? Our boilers are designed for coal and although gas can be used with some modifications or possibly oil at a pinch neither has the smell of coal, hot oil or steam ! That we may be able to get some coal from other sources is fine but good proper steam coal may soon disappear.

I hope the man from Signal Fuels will be at the Midland Show. Noel.
30 September 2024 at 09:51 #756703
Nicholas Farr
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Hi, I got the same pop-up as Nealeb did earlier this morning, and I’m not paying £6.99, or accept all their cookies to read it. I already knew the last coal fired generation plant in the UK, closes today

Regards Nick.
30 September 2024 at 10:22 #756708
Michael Gilligan
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Sorry folks … but please don’t blame the innocent messenger 🙁

The [well-illustrated and very interesting] article was freely available on my iPad when I posted the link in the early hours … and this being a Model Engineering forum, I assumed the content would be of interest.

The ‘pay to avoid adverts’ idea seems to be the latest GDPR-based trick of the trade.

Grrr!!

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