Energy policy destroying our rural heritage
OUR wonderful national parks are a vital part of our rural heritage that need to be cherished.
I was, therefore, horrified to read that the Government had considered granting licences to drill for shale gas in our national parks.
Has this country gone barking mad?
One only has to look at the American drilling sites to see what an infernal mess is being inflicted on the landscape. America is also a giant continent in comparison to our tiny country. I very much doubt that America would allow drilling in its fine national parks.
We have leapt out of the frying pan and into the fire. Now that Didcot Power Station and others are gone, there is a predicted energy shortfall.
Hence, the rash dash for gas at all costs.
We need to take time out before making rash decisions.
Drilling for shale has the potential to destroy our beautiful countryside and pollute some aquifers.
At the moment we import very cheap American coal for much of our energy. However, this is soon to change as the coal power stations are closed or blown up.
Soon, our energy bills will shoot up to pay for new nuclear power stations. Frankly, our energy policy is a shambles.
I was, therefore, horrified to read that the Government had considered granting licences to drill for shale gas in our national parks.
Has this country gone barking mad?
One only has to look at the American drilling sites to see what an infernal mess is being inflicted on the landscape. America is also a giant continent in comparison to our tiny country. I very much doubt that America would allow drilling in its fine national parks.
We have leapt out of the frying pan and into the fire. Now that Didcot Power Station and others are gone, there is a predicted energy shortfall.
Hence, the rash dash for gas at all costs.
We need to take time out before making rash decisions.
Drilling for shale has the potential to destroy our beautiful countryside and pollute some aquifers.
At the moment we import very cheap American coal for much of our energy. However, this is soon to change as the coal power stations are closed or blown up.
Soon, our energy bills will shoot up to pay for new nuclear power stations. Frankly, our energy policy is a shambles.
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If Corbyn wants to do something useful around power generation then he should seriously look again at a Severn Barrage, its the second highest rise and fall of tide in the world. A massive capital investment, no emmisions, would provide rafts of employment and be ongoing for generations. The wildlife issues would have to be sorted but these projects have been priceless where implemented. Mining will always have dangers because of what it is, and the costs of moving coal around the rail network will only ever increase.
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The amount of extra equipement needed at a power station to burn coal is hurrendous, as are the maintenance costs to keep it going. You have to transport it to site, unload it, conveyor it to storage. You then have to move it back to the conveyor system to transport it to huge bunkers within the station itself. Prior to burning it you must pulverise it to a fine dust to enhance its combustion value. From the mill it has to be fan blown into the boiler. The boiler itself has to be a massive construction which is maintenance hungry, and has to be lit on gas or oil first. When the steam is eventually generated it has a limited life cycle and can only be used in one complete pass cycle before being reheated or condensed back to water before being reheated. All the processes are through physically large pieces of equipement which need maintaining at high costs, and they are very non effiecent. Go back to coal and the cost of energy will rocket substantially. Somebody somewhere who makes these wild inaccurate statements need to realize what is involved first. Coal is a non starter, dangerous to mine, dirty to burn, costly to handle and very ineffiecent all round, and the cost of a 600mw steam boiler and turbine, mind boggling.
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Corbyn or anyone else who says they are going to revert back to coal definately need either education or mental examination, obviously a fine line between madness and shear genius, and the latter he isn't.