It is literally the country's worst emitter of co2.
It has emitted more co2 than Port Talbot steelworks and Pembroke gas plant combined. Those being the 2nd and 3rd placed worst emitters.
Biomass power production is a dangerously stupid idea.
We should be building dozens of fission reactors (and converting some already radioactive coal mine to be a nuclear waste powered geothermal generator) until clean nuclear fusion is a thing.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 9 Aug 2024, 17:15,
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Better than coal though which is where the comparison was being made
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Part of the reason why it actually emits so much more co2 than coal (and gas) plants
is that it is a less energy dense fuel that needs to be transported at great environmental cost from half the world away....
Remember it is the UK's number 1 single emitter of co2.
The next worst single emitting power plant is Pembroke (gas), which produced only 1/3 of Drax's number.
Ratcliff (coal) is the next power plant on the list, which produced only about 2/3 of the quantity Pembroke did.
Next is Staythorpe (gas), which produced 9/10ths of what Ratcliff did. And so on and so on down the list. You need to add several fossil fuel power stations together to equal the co2 output of this one 'green' nightmare, and even more if you exclude the gas fuelled ones.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 9 Aug 2024, 18:19,
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