End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down
www.theguardian.com
UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for good
  • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Waste burning at least seems to make sense, if its not burnt its only going to go into landfill and emit methane.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That’s actually fine if the landfill has methane extraction systems. The methane can be used to generate electricity

    • federal reverse@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      Except, the plant is sized to burn around 8x the amount of household waste produced in the city and regionally, there already are enough waste-burning plants for the current amount of household waste, making this a bet on a foreseeable race to the bottom.