birder
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Post by birder on Jan 9, 2017 23:30:15 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 10, 2017 0:45:14 GMT
True. Unfortunately, it comes from people who are having to choose between heating and eating. Robbing the poor to pay the rich as in most socialist schemes.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 10, 2017 1:16:09 GMT
Someone is having their pocket well padded with this scheme! Who dreams up this crap? ??
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Post by Ratty on Jan 10, 2017 1:23:34 GMT
Someone is having their pocket well padded with this scheme! Who dreams up this crap? ?? Ideologues?
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 10, 2017 1:39:23 GMT
Someone is having their pocket well padded with this scheme! Who dreams up this crap? ?? Ideologues? Crooks who conveniently adopt ideology. The Ideologues will be the first ones they shoot when they come to power ... minus a few tokens. Ain't government wonderful?
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 10, 2017 2:07:04 GMT
Someone is having their pocket well padded with this scheme! Who dreams up this crap? ?? People who want their pockets padded. Schemes are set up by Members of Parliament who then take advantage of them often running the committee that awards the subsidies to their own companies. Politicians being one of the few groups with less ethics than climate 'scientists'.
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birder
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Post by birder on Jan 10, 2017 19:01:57 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 10, 2017 20:12:26 GMT
Wow, just wow. A lot of cash for a small country.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 10, 2017 20:13:00 GMT
Are Pound notes the fuel for the bio heat?
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Post by Ratty on Jan 10, 2017 23:17:44 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 10, 2017 23:54:48 GMT
If they are dumb enough to pay big bucks for wood pellets, we will sell them to them. We can grow the forests all over again. In fact, the US has more forests now than when it was discovered!
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Post by douglavers on Jan 11, 2017 7:02:16 GMT
www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-energy-how-one-power-plant-chips-away-at-the-uks-carbon-footprint-a6796716.htmlDrax is the largest power station in the UK and supplies about 20% of the nation's electricity.
It is converting to woodchips because of an EU directive on carbon emissions.
The woodchips are sourced from N America [mostly Pennsylvania?].
The trees are cut, chipped, and the chips are loaded and sent by railway to a port somewhere, and dried. They are loaded on a ship, and sent across the Atlantic. They are unloaded, and put on a train to the Drax power station. Where, apart from being stored undercover, they still have to be properly dried before burning. They hold a fraction of the calorific value of the same weight of coal.
As an engineer is alleged to have said, "They have to be f*****g crazy if they think this is saving any CO2 emissions."
Meanwhile, in Germany they are rebuilding lignite fired power stations, partly I believe with good quality second hand parts from British power stations dismantled because of the EU directive. The Germans have discovered that renewable energy is neither cheap nor reliable, and too much destabilises the grids.
And people wonder why the UK voted BREXIT!!
It will be rather a shame when, quite possibly, they discover our planet is cooling rapidly. Perhaps the winters this year in North America, Europe and Asia are beginning to cause the faintest tremors of concern?
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 11, 2017 7:45:46 GMT
www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-energy-how-one-power-plant-chips-away-at-the-uks-carbon-footprint-a6796716.htmlDrax is the largest power station in the UK and supplies about 20% of the nation's electricity.
It is converting to woodchips because of an EU directive on carbon emissions.
The woodchips are sourced from N America [mostly Pennsylvania?].
The trees are cut, chipped, and the chips are loaded and sent by railway to a port somewhere, and dried. They are loaded on a ship, and sent across the Atlantic. They are unloaded, and put on a train to the Drax power station. Where, apart from being stored undercover, they still have to be properly dried before burning. They hold a fraction of the calorific value of the same weight of coal.
As an engineer is alleged to have said, "They have to be f*****g crazy if they think this is saving any CO2 emissions."
Meanwhile, in Germany they are rebuilding lignite fired power stations, partly I believe with good quality second hand parts from British power stations dismantled because of the EU directive. The Germans have discovered that renewable energy is neither cheap nor reliable, and too much destabilises the grids.
And people wonder why the UK voted BREXIT!!
It will be rather a shame when, quite possibly, they discover our planet is cooling rapidly. Perhaps the winters this year in North America, Europe and Asia are beginning to cause the faintest tremors of concern?
The Germans are a pragmatic people and have found their 'renewable' energy in British power plant parts. Jolly good. Nothing like freezing to make one wonder how the old furnace is doing.
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Post by tobyglyn on Jan 16, 2017 19:17:25 GMT
"Northern Ireland will go to the polls on 2 March to elect a new Assembly after the executive collapsed over a botched green energy scheme. Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire was legally obliged to call the election after negotiations failed. Stormont was plunged into crisis after the resignation of Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister last week. The catalyst was the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme, which is likely to cost taxpayers £490m." Wow, that's gotta hurt! www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38641857
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 16, 2017 19:31:59 GMT
That looks like a really heavy load............490,000,000 pounds............offffffffffftttttttttaaaaaaaaa.
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