QuoteCoal now only provides occasional back-up energy in the U.K., mostly on sunless and wind-free winter days.
http://e360.yale.edu/features/in-a-stunning-turnaround-britain-moves-to-end-the-burning-of-coal
>mostly on sunless
So, 325 days/year?
WTF else are we going to burn? Trees....oh we did that already.
>oh we did that already.
Not all of them. I saw at least three while I was touring around.
I SAW 4 when Mark too me to Nottinghamshire
One was BIG & Older than the USA :-)
>Nottingham
And not ONE squirrel, rabbit, fox, deer, etc. to be seen. I did, however, meet a red fox on a London street about 1/2 block from the Islington ...guess the animals moved to the city, too.
After Northern Ireland's last coal plant and Eggborough-Yorkshire shut, there will be just six coal plants left in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/feb/02/yorkshire-coal-plant-to-close-with-loss-of-200-jobs-eggborough
The U.K. Just Went 55 Hours Without Using Coal for the First Time in History (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-19/u-k-goes-a-record-55-hours-without-coal-as-clean-power-expands)