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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Nickbat on 09 March 2013, 12:03:48

Title: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: Nickbat on 09 March 2013, 12:03:48
Forget the local coal. Let's run our largest and most efficient power station on trees that have been cut down and shredded in the US, shipped across the Atlantic, put in railway trucks and transported to the station. Oh, and we'll subsidise it as well with money stolen collected from energy bills.

That's much more efficient, isn't it?  :y

Crikey, I'm getting so used to this topsy-turvy logic that maybe I should stand as a coalition candidate. ::) ::) ::) 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290444/Madness-How-pay-billions-electricity-bills-Britains-biggest-power-station-switch-coal-wood-chips--wont-help-planet-jot.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290444/Madness-How-pay-billions-electricity-bills-Britains-biggest-power-station-switch-coal-wood-chips--wont-help-planet-jot.html)

Read and cry!  :'(
Title: Re: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: Varche on 09 March 2013, 12:20:20
It isn't all bad news. There is at least one local farmer who has turned his land over to growing trees and has bought expensive equipment(like a combine harvester) to harvest them.  :y
Title: Re: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: tidla on 09 March 2013, 12:46:38
(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k536/tidla1/tp050630_03_zps82c4eec8.jpg)

Last time i looked, the Uk was the small triagular bit.

Why dont they grow some balls and stand up for the uk.
Title: Re: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 09 March 2013, 12:58:03
It does seem rather bonkers, and expensive! ::) ::) ::)

I will continue to say though, let's just go 100 % nuclear! :y :y :y
Title: Re: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: omega3000 on 09 March 2013, 12:59:11
Arrghhhhh !!! The EU (http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz76/SVOstroski/Skype/emoticon-0179-headbang.gif)
Title: Re: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: TheBoy on 09 March 2013, 18:26:50
Ah, Drax, happy memories of the official "unofficial OOF tour".
Title: Re: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: Jukeboxnut on 09 March 2013, 23:05:45
What a bunch of bungling front botties they are making these stupid decisions, thank goodness I have just managed to buy a generator before the lights start to go out!  Seems to me that the only use for politicians is for fuel in Drax instead of woodchips.
Title: Re: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 10 March 2013, 10:26:56
I just don't understand how woodchip can be considered 'sustainable' as mankind have been chopping down and burning trees for millenia.  ::) 

It's common knowledge that you can burn a tree much quicker than you can grow a new one, so when this is ramped up to industrial levels will Drax cause the deforestation of North America??  :-\
Title: Re: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: TheBoy on 10 March 2013, 10:41:58
I seem to recall, as well as coal, Drax used locally grown bio fuel?
Title: Re: Drax goes woodchip
Post by: Varche on 10 March 2013, 11:03:55
I seem to recall, as well as coal, Drax used locally grown bio fuel?

Keep up!

It isn't all bad news. There is at least one local farmer who has turned his land over to growing trees and has bought expensive equipment(like a combine harvester) to harvest them. :y