From:- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52973089Britain is about to pass a significant landmark - at midnight on Wednesday it will have gone two full months without burning coal to generate power and has decided that coal was no longer the future, the plant now uses seven million tonnes of compressed wood pellets sourced from commercial forests in the US a year and Drax will phase out coal entirely by March next year.
See this thread post # 756 and observe green energy in action?
For the ex-navs from the RAF, for whom I was a chauffeur, the Eastgate project was to be located at the "Smokey Joe" chimney, the Blue Circle cement factory in the Weardale valley on one of the low-level routes in the east Pennines.G-CPTN wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:16 pmHomes to be heated by warm water from flooded mines.
A scheme that investigated the possibility of deriving geothermal energy from underground sources in Durham was abandoned a decade ago.
Eastgate Renewable Energy Village.
Why does anyone listen to this 17 year old with zero experience of life and little actual knowledge about anything? BBC fetes her as though she is all knowledgeable and a world authority. No 17 year old has those credentials.
An RAF aircraft has captured pictures of the world's largest iceberg as it drifts towards the island of South Georgia.
The A400M reconnaissance flight crew observed the iceberg's fraying condition, capturing pictures showing masses of debris that had broken from the main body and fissures extending deep below the surface.
The iceberg, known as A68a, measures around 4,200-square-kilometres, roughly the size of Somerset, and has travelled some 1,050km in the three years since it broke from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf.
A68a has been drifting towards the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and was around 200km from the island's shore when the A400M crew set out.
Scientists said there is a possibility the iceberg could become stuck in the shallow waters around South Georgia, posing a threat to the island's ecosystem.
If A68a were to run aground it would cause considerable problems for the island's seals and penguins as their access to food could be restricted, according to researchers based in the region.
“A close-in iceberg has massive implications for where land-based predators might be able to forage,” said Professor Geraint Tarling from the British Antarctic Survey.
