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First coal-free day in Britain since Industrial Revolution
BBC ^ | April 22nd 2017 | anon

Posted on 04/22/2017 12:55:17 AM PDT by Winniesboy

Britain went a full day without using coal to generate electricity for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, the National Grid says.

The energy provider said Friday's lack of coal usage was a "watershed" moment.

Britain's longest continuous energy period without coal until now was 19 hours - first achieved last May, and again on Thursday.

The government plans to phase out Britain's last plants by 2025 in order to cut carbon emissions.

Friday is thought to be the first time the nation has not used coal to generate electricity since the world's first centralised public coal-fired generator opened in 1882, at Holborn Viaduct in London...

According to Gridwatch.co.uk, around half of British energy on Friday came from natural gas, with about a quarter coming from nuclear plants.

Wind, biomass, and imported energy were also used.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: coal; energy
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1 posted on 04/22/2017 12:55:17 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: Winniesboy
Lemmings jumping into the sea.

The British Isles are coal rich. Common sense would say that is where their energy should come from. Of course common sense would say that they should expel the filthy mudslum invaders too.

2 posted on 04/22/2017 1:08:54 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't see a possum.)
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To: Winniesboy

Europe has been trying to figure out where radioactive iodine is coming from. They are triangulating to figure out which country and nuclear power plant is furtively releasing it and none will admit to it. With Fukushima still “happily” dumping three nuclear power plant cores into the ocean, air and land...I just can’t be chipper about Britain’s “news”.


3 posted on 04/22/2017 1:10:51 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: Winniesboy

Why don’t they just burn money instead of coal?


4 posted on 04/22/2017 1:18:07 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Lemmings jumping into the sea.
The British Isles are coal rich. Common sense would say that is where their energy should come from.
Maybe they're alarmed by how much their sea levels have risen from burning all that coal since their industrial revolution.
5 posted on 04/22/2017 1:22:51 AM PDT by lewislynn
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Even if there were no political interventions discouraging the use of coal, little of the coal used in the UK would be extracted in the UK. Although the country is coal-rich, as you say, it requires expensive deep mining techniques and can’t compete with lower-quality imports extracted more cheaply. British coal hasn’t been competitive since the Thatcher government privatised the industry in the 1980s. British coal will remain where it is until its extraction again makes economic sense - as is inevitable sooner or later.


6 posted on 04/22/2017 1:26:22 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: Winniesboy

I am getting tired of this effin s***

sorta like people in Vermont saying that
air conditioning in Texas needs a special tax.

or that people in Hawaii think that
natural gas heat in Texas needs a special tax

or that people in Sweden
think that others should not use cash

f.u.


7 posted on 04/22/2017 1:48:46 AM PDT by RockyTx
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To: Winniesboy

Next step, the dark ages. Progress demands it.


8 posted on 04/22/2017 1:49:15 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Next step, the dark ages. Progress demands it.

Only for you, I, and the rest of the masses. The Political Class will still enjoy the fruits of civilization.

9 posted on 04/22/2017 1:51:45 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Winniesboy

The emissions from natural gas are not much lower than coal. If they really care about global warming they should stop using electricity altogether.


10 posted on 04/22/2017 2:05:27 AM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: RockyTx

“that people in Hawaii think that
natural gas heat in Texas needs a special tax”

Methinks Hawaii needs to show the rest of the world how to be independent from importing evil energy sources that are killing all of us! /s


11 posted on 04/22/2017 2:06:18 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Helicondelta

Not to neglect the fact it is a critical industrial feedstock too!


12 posted on 04/22/2017 2:09:52 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Winniesboy

They are using gas fired furnaces to burn their trash (biomass). The trash burning pollution is far worse than coal. But anything for the war on coal efforts.


13 posted on 04/22/2017 2:21:14 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Winniesboy

IIRC, fuel costs in Britain have been insane for a very long time. Wonder why.


14 posted on 04/22/2017 2:41:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Winniesboy

testing out the gallows, first with the savage invasion and now with coal, shear lunacy!


15 posted on 04/22/2017 2:52:28 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Helicondelta

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


16 posted on 04/22/2017 3:07:16 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Winniesboy

Do Brits pay an electric bill? You never hear about it. Do the refugees have to pay it?


17 posted on 04/22/2017 3:22:44 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: abclily

It’s rather arrogant, isn’t it?


18 posted on 04/22/2017 3:25:43 AM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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19 posted on 04/22/2017 3:38:20 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: sauropod

Read


20 posted on 04/22/2017 3:57:41 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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