and 3.5GW of coal onstream with nukes and CCGT practically flat out
And no imports either...
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Oh look. No solar , sod all wind
Jan 20, 2020
Last reply: 6 years ago
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Losing your touch remembering domain names?
It's a domain I gave to TNP ...
What are you on about?
And its a much nicer domain name too. Thanks andy
So, much as expected. I wouldn't be surprised to see OCGTs up later. Do you know how much coal capacity we have, in total?
The 'usual' winter high pressure over the UK that the Greens like to ignore?
wiki says 7.3 GW, are any closed ones kept moth-balled for balancing/reserve purposes? I suppose you can't leave a mountain of coal out in the rain indefinitely ...
The company I used to work for had their own coal-fired power station up until about 1970, to supplement the grid or to use when the grid went down. The man who managed the coal stocks told me that the stock decreased naturally every year, by about 10% IIRC (which seems a lot, I may have mis-remembered), simply due to aerial oxidation of the stockpile. In the extreme, they can suffer spontaneous combustion.
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Nothing to do with sneaky pilfering by the workforce (and/or public) ?
Did he threaten to shoot your puppy?
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That which was to be illustrated:
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Five 400 MW gas turbines apparently flat out (at right).
Three wind turbines apparently totally still (at left).
Yup UK now chugging out 318 grams CO2 for every kWh produced.
square root of sweet fanny adams I thought and all of it due to close soon
'The other mike' prolly knows
same site
Where, OOI?
Fiddler's Ferry closing down at end of March, Drax's remaining coal units will convert to gas in 2023, the final three coal stations will be gone by 2025.
it's been sitting in the wet for millions of years already. I can't see how it would shrink 10% a year other than by shrinkage, but I'm no coalologist.
NT
It oxidises - slowly
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