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The Natural Philosopher[_2_]

On 06/01/18 12:13, wrote:
On Saturday, 6 January 2018 07:01:46 UTC, The Other Mike wrote:
"Drax says it expects to take a £10m hit to earnings after problems in
delivering biomass to its power station.

Perhaps we should go back to digging coal mines and then building a power station next to the mine.

Owain

Drax is IIRC pretty close to one of the few remaining UK coalmines but
there isnt enough coal to meet its needs

The better solution would be to pump out old seams and set fire to them
and use the hot gases to drive gas turbines with.

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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first centurys developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen