I always thought Battersea looked like an upturned table.

Mark

remarks like that justify my accusation it was hived off for the Arts.

 

Snow, I've got a feeling it was used in a couple of police chase type scenarios.

 

I might suggest your Chinese 1000 megawatt station is larger to accomodate the tables and chairs and electronic menu boards. Plus the basins to get the coal tar off the woks. See Hung Lo Tommi entrprises.

There were four power stations on Yorkshire with the same or greater MW output.

Thorpe Marsh. Built 1959 1000MW. Closed 1994.

Ferrybridge C. 2000MW 1966

Eggborough. 2000MW, Started generation in 1967.

Drax. 4000MW.

Even little New Zealand has a 1000MW coal fired power station.

Jimbert

 

Drax is nuclear.

I've driven past Ferrybridge loads of times, just North of the M62 not that far from Selby?

I think it's the Liverpool-Leeds canal used for barge traffic to carry coal. talk about pollution! Huge black smoke signature. And convoys of lorries carrying coal too.

My agents have attended to inform me in hushed tones Battersea was only 508 MW and what the hell do I think I'm doing trying to talk up the Southern coal as opposed to North Midlands coal industries

 

Must be the Christmas spirit

Flashman, your agents neglected to tell you that unlike France, England is not in the habit of building nuclear power stations near populated places, except in Scotland.

 

 

 

Operator:	Drax Group plc
Fuel:	Coal-fired 3,945MW
Drax is a controversial large coal-fired power station located near Selby in North Yorkshire in Northern England. It is named after the parish of Drax and is owned by Drax Group plc.

Around 140 trains unloading coal each week. Our main coal conveyors can move 3,800 tonnes of coal every hour. This is enough coal to cover ten football pitches to a depth of 50mm.

More on Drax.

 

Environmental effects

Environmental effects
In 2005 Drax produced 20.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. The Times reports this is more than that produced by 103 small unindustrialised nations and compares to 91 million tonnes of carbon dioxide produced by vehicles in the UK. Making this power station a major contributor to global warming and air pollution. Coal smoke is also widely linked to asthma and other such respiratory illnesses especially for people living and working in and around the area near the power station. The station is the biggest single source of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the United Kingdom.

Are Ferrybridge and Drax the same?

My Uncle as parish Chairman ran the enquiry into Sizewell B. They ran rings around the objectors, their credentials.

Now that is a nuclear station, 8m miles from Aldeburch, 15 from Woodbridge.

Ferrybridge and Drax are seperate stations. During the miners strike, Maggie helped break them by stockpiling coal for the Yorkshire power stations. Coal from Yorkshire and Poland is used to run them.

I read somewhere that a Russian consortium has bought a large mine in Yorkshire, that had been closed years ago.

Jimbert

Scene from a Monty Python movie:  The camera pans some old derelict buildings & a crawler appears on the bottom of the screen.  "The Third World, Birmingham."

 

 

T-Dog

Birmingham is just undergoing its post '60's facelift which resulted in its post .70's facelift which is being regenerated for the 2000s.

walk down broad street a yuppy area and the rats run past you in shoals.

Letterman from time to time has a camera crew out taking pictures of the rats running around Manhattan. 

You never saw that in London.

 

But of course Birmingham is an Indian stronghold with no comebacks from health authorities to Indian establishments