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The End Of Coal? Perhaps Not Quite.
Today marks the end of the widespread use of coal for industry in the UK. The last coal fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Stour closes as does the last operational blast furnace at Port Talbot steel works:
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The UK’s normal total peak electricity demand is less than 40GW. In the first half of 2023, construction was started on 37 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power capacity in China. Their total programme of new coal plants amounts to a capacity of ten times that figure.
It is estimated that since it was first used in the UK, around 4.6bn tons of coal has been used to produce electricity. China uses that much each and every year.
Who believes phasing out the use of coal in the UK has contributed anything of any significance towards reducing global emissions?
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Ratcliffe on Soar....... :-)
this is Milliband et-al exporting our carbon footprint somewhere else. at this time virgin steel cannot be made in an electric furnace, nor can "production" quantities of virgin steel be made in a hydrogen furnace. But that's OK, the Germans can burn coal from South Africa, we can buy their steel and our government's fingerprints aren't on all the CO2 created......
As discussed on other threads, to get iron out of ore one apparently needs heat only coal can give. Given we will still need further iron, refusing to use coal here only to buy it from a nation that still does achieves nothing on a global level, but apparently is simply inappropriate political virtue signalling.
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