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1 posted on 11/19/2015 5:08:30 AM PST by thackney
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Over 1/3 of UK electricity is generated by coal.

http://www.iea.org/statistics/statisticssearch/report/?country=UK=&product=electricityandheat&year=Select


2 posted on 11/19/2015 5:11:50 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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,,,,,, yea right !!!! ,,,, it’ll be a cold day in London when that happens .


3 posted on 11/19/2015 5:24:04 AM PST by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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Personally I’m wondering if they are planning on reducing their population by reducing the electricity available to that same population.


8 posted on 11/19/2015 5:33:56 AM PST by The Working Man
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UK will be freezing to death before that goal is reached. This insane rush to make energy more expensive, less reliable, and less available is almost worse than western governments’ embrace of islam. It will get us all dead.


10 posted on 11/19/2015 5:37:36 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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If that’s their plan, best start now building those nuke plants or they’ll be on reliant on others for most their energy needs.


11 posted on 11/19/2015 5:39:40 AM PST by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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If India gets their "LFTR" ( Liquid Florine Thorium Reactor ) perfected, modularized, and in production, they will own the retrofit market for dingbats like the UK.

And we are doing a darn thing in this arena.

Tell me otherwise if I am off base here Thackney....

12 posted on 11/19/2015 5:42:52 AM PST by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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"Frankly, it cannot be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the UK to be relying on polluting, carbon intensive 50-year-old coal-fired power stations,"

The plants are probably fully depreciated and producing cheap electricity. Any difference in carbon emissions is going to be a rounding error compared to the Chinese emissions. sounds like an economically stupid plan.

14 posted on 11/19/2015 5:44:41 AM PST by glorgau
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Bit of Lefty sentiment in this one, but I always thought this was one of Sting’s better songs.

We Work the Black Seam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSpE0CF9AEE


17 posted on 11/19/2015 5:56:30 AM PST by dfwgator
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In 2026, GB will be Dickensonian in their winter...freezing their arses to death. On the plus side, many will be moozlum invaders.


19 posted on 11/19/2015 6:26:46 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Weren't the Coal Miners the Center of Labor earlier last Century?

Oh My how things change!

20 posted on 11/19/2015 6:47:40 AM PST by KC_Lion (The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.)
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Energy and Climate Change Secretary

Two mutually exclusive agendas, IMO. Schizophrenia follows.

21 posted on 11/19/2015 6:58:46 AM PST by Moltke
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Replacing cheap electricity from coal with costly and unreliable electricity from windmills will mean more people freezing to death in the winters because they can’t afford electrical heat.


22 posted on 11/19/2015 9:43:16 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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John Ford is turning in his grave.



25 posted on 11/19/2015 1:09:29 PM PST by Bratch
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