The demise of UK fossil fuel Power Stations

[Tony Pratt 1Participant @tonypratt1]

Seems utter folly/criminal to shut down power generation facilities without a reliable replacement? Only my simplistic ill informed opinion, I'm sure our politicians know what they are doing, not!

Tony

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Posted by Dave Halford on 25/01/2022 15:12:45:

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 21/01/2021 15:57:21:

Posted by not done it yet on 21/01/2021 14:26:35:

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useless, as are suggestions that it is simply more than about 23 degrees north of the equator.

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You are really on form, aren’t you !

I answered your specific question accurately, then included two riders by way of trying to help.

MichaelG.

You are both wrong, anyone from London knows that the North starts just past Hatfield.

Hi, well when I were a lad, my dad said if I was standing at the north pole, there is only one direction you can go. I was a bit puzzled about that and he then told me that which ever you looked, it would be in a southerly direction, so you can only go south, so I guess, if you are at the south pole, everywhere else is north.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 25/01/2022 19:43:54

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Funny how I've never ever heard of the Nordstream 2 until today

…which is going to double the amount of global warming gas imported to "Green" Germany, home of  "The Greens"

Funny that

innit

**LINK**

It's not about what they tell us, it's really about the bits they don't tell us

Edited By Ady1 on 27/01/2022 20:22:03

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

Nordstream 2 doesn't really change the amount of gas Germany needs ADY. It just bypasses the Ukraine

to get there.

Vlad wants his people controlling the valves , not having gas 'go missing' en route.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Ady1 on 27/01/2022 20:20:12:

Funny how I've never ever heard of the Nordstream 2 until today

…which is going to double the amount of global warming gas imported to "Green" Germany, home of "The Greens"

Funny that

innit

**LINK**

It's not about what they tell us, it's really about the bits they don't tell us

Edited By Ady1 on 27/01/2022 20:22:03

You'll have to explain the joke Ady. Aren't German Greens still dead against Nordstream2?

I'm confused,

Dave

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Germany still has 30 coal fired power stations, and is still bringing them online RWE

German brown coal is filthy stuff, far worse than our stuff They did have nuclear, but shut them down early in a fit of greenyness.

Perhaps German greens should invest in a mirror before they say anything about us

[DiodeDickParticipant @diodedick]

Germany took fright at nuclear power after the reactor fire at Chernobyl in April 1896 and reverted to burning brown coal, sometimes known as lignite, which is indeed dirtier than our "black" coal.

Meanwhile, Western countries, including the UK, embarked on a Technical Assistance programme (Tassis), under the aegis of the International Atomic Energy Authority, sending scientists and engineers into former Soviet bloc countries to advise how to keep their reactors safe, principally because we did not want them burning lignite.

Germany's aversion to nuclear power did not prevent them from trying to muscle in to Tassis to sell their kit at Kozluduy in Bulgaria, which had Russian designed and built VVER reactors.

Dick

[DMBParticipant @dmb]

Come hell or high water, why worry about it? Let the MPs do the worrying, have sleepless nights after bringing too much of their own booze to the party! They dare not let the lights go out – they know that would stuff their chances at the next voting session.

[DMBParticipant @dmb]

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Edited By DMB on 27/01/2022 23:44:20

[10ba12baParticipant @10ba12ba]

RWE: if my memory still works, were they not the last owners of Tilbury PS? A coal burner, they applied to HMG to convert it to biomass, got turned down, so shut it sehr schnell.

I worked in Germany on a number of their coal burning stations. The brown coal came onto site in rail tankers with a couple of bar nitrogen cap, it was quite combustible !

H.

[10ba12baParticipant @10ba12ba]

Above para 1 should read: "they applied to HMG for a grant to convert it to biomass"

H.

[Niels AbildgaardParticipant @nielsabildgaard33719]

If wood pellets are partly or full made from twigs,bark and other waste, it serves as an efficient export machine of essential micro nutrients from woodland to air and ash depots.

To be green they must be100% pure core wood.

[Anthony KendallParticipant @anthonykendall53479]

Posted by Dave Halford on 25/01/2022 15:12:45

You are both wrong, anyone from London knows that the North starts just past Hatfield.

Regret to point out all 3 are wrong. The north starts at Spalding, the first place there is real fish and chips.

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

YEP ! Spuds off the flat lands, and fish from Boston ! Noel.

[10ba12baParticipant @10ba12ba]

Ruskington. your sit down or take out done in dripping. None of that foreign oil muck. Shame it's not one of the Frank Ford coal fired ranges – you could run a WHRB off the back of it.

H.

[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

Don't like fish, should be left in the sea! Batter is poison, full of gluten. Fat is bad for the cholesterol levels. Potatoes are full of carbohydrate and probably pesticides. I shall avoid Ruskington, where ever that is

John

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Posted by Anthony Kendall on 28/01/2022 09:38:05:

Posted by Dave Halford on 25/01/2022 15:12:45

You are both wrong, anyone from London knows that the North starts just past Hatfield.

Regret to point out all 3 are wrong. The north starts at Spalding, the first place there is real fish and chips.

Hi Anthony, there are a few places between where I am and Spalding, including Sutton Bridge where I had the pleasure (not) of having a dip in the river there while doing some work on the mechanism underneath a few years ago and North starts before I can even get to Sutton Bridge.

Regards Nick.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Many moons ago I lived in London. When trying to escape back to God's own county I would see a road sign somewhere Swiss cottage way pointing to 'the north'. There weren't any more so I assume that 'the north' starts just north of Swiss cottage.

Having spent 3 years in 'the great wen' you wouldn't get me back for a gold clock

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Posted by noel shelley on 28/01/2022 10:09:37:

YEP ! Spuds off the flat lands, and fish from Boston ! Noel.

The best chips I have ever had were in a pub near Mablethorpe, we saw the spuds being delivered, no ready prepped chilled chips or frozen there.

Mike

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

I'd have to say that the fish were probably more fresh when landed on the docks at Lynn instead of having them paddled all the way up the Welland.

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