Sorry old news, but I did not see this until today. http://www.theguardian.com/environm...-new-british-record-by-beating-coal-for-a-day It still has to be a significant day in the history of Barnsley
As an indigenous resource, yes. It was brutally murdered some 30 years ago. As much as I favour renewable energy, it was still murder.
An interesting site for monitoring live power demands and where it comes from...not sure what everything means though. http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ It does sound like the solar figures in the news article are something of an estimate though as it isn't measured centrally at the moment, they are probably calculating that from the difference in normal demand around midday and assuming that the deficit is being made up by solar.
....errrr.........yep it is but why did we never have a balanced energy policy....... one that guaranteed surety of supply..... yer know a) when the dash for gas is no longer b) when north sea oil is no longer c) when there is a nuclear 'accident' d) when our overseas suppliers of energy hold us to ransom e) when/if there is more than one of the above happens............ When any of the scenarios happen it won't be the fault of the greedy two hats will it now......
My dad still delivers tons of it every week, so no. As an energy source to produce electricity. Probably. Thatcher's government did that when they sold the clean burning technology developed in Grimethorpe to the Norwegians. And when they destroyed the industry in order to break the back of the unions. But as a domestic fuel, to give warmth and enjoyment to people, it's actually growing in popularity after years of decline. People are putting solar panels on their roof, but they're also ripping out gas fires and replacing them with multi fuel burners. Go to a pub in winter with an open fire or one of these stoves and the chances are you'll be back again soon enough. A coal fire makes us all feel good.
In most developed countries. Yes. In Asia no, it's booming. Here in India they're opening new coal mines monthly to try and cope with the ever increasing demand in the grid. Australia are also opening a new huge coal mine in the galilee basin, under large protest, to export millions of tons a year mostly, again, to India. Other places in Asia are the same. Although it's paying my wages so I can't really complain, it kind of makes a mockery of all the clean policies throughout the rest of the world!!!
It's almost as if the rest of the world has reduced usage in order to accommodate places like India and China. who are eating it for fun. Rather than those places start with other technologies to begin with. It's utterly bizarre
I don't think we have much left in the world that the Chinese don't have a finger in. Never mind the euro project this is just as dangerous imo
