There may be good reasons to have one or two mines, for high-quality coal for specific purposes. But that's orders of magnitude less than would be needed for coal power generation. That's w… (View Post)

An old - and brilliant - railway surveyor I had the honour of knowing had an old Midland Railway surveyor's tape measure that he still used to set out railways in the 1990s, when he was in his e… (View Post)

If so, a large (not all) part of the decline is down to right-wing 'populists' saying how rubbish things are, and taking the country down routes that did nothing to fix the supposed problem… (View Post)

If I was an Israeli living in Israel, I might well support the Israeli government in their attempt to remove the existential threat at my doorstep. If I was a Palestinian living in Gaza, I might well… (View Post)

Do you have figures for that 'probably'? Anyway, Drax is a dead-end idea, designed just to keep the plant running as long as possible. Instead, compare to gas and renewables. (View Post)