Genomicalist 🧬🦠🧫👩‍💻Dec 29
SellaTheChemist
I dream of the day when Drax is shut down at last. The madness of shipping wood from 1/3 of the way round the globe to burn it with an efficiency of about 30%. The number of cooling towers (12) tells you just how much energy is wasted. It is an astonishing monument to the Second Law.
Dec 29 at 10:22amWeb
Show threadPeter BrownDec 29
@sellathechemist and in the USA old growth forest is being destroyed to feed the monster
Show threadElizabeth SudduthDec 29

@peterbrown @sellathechemist The whole thing where it's somehow "sustainable" to cut down our trees, make them into pellets, and ship them to the other side of the world to burn is very strange.

https://dogwoodalliance.org/our-work/wood-pellet-biomass/

Show threadSellaTheChemistDec 29
@hydropsyche The word “sustainable” and “sustainability” are useful marketing terms with deliciously pliable meanings to suit the audience’s expectations…
Show threadRichard 🔶UK #RejoinEUDec 29
@hydropsyche @peterbrown @sellathechemist good to know there’s a campaign in the USA to stop this monster and theft of our taxes. Drax made profits for their owners comparible to their subsidies from Government … you couldn’t make it up!
Show threadElizabeth SudduthDec 30
@rpin42 @peterbrown @sellathechemist The Dogwood Alliance are great. I hadn't really been aware of this issue, since we don't really have many biomass burning plants in the US, and then I attended a regional climate change conference where they presented.
Show threadDr Susi ArnottDec 29
@sellathechemist Join #Sci4XR, #ChrisPackham and others to #AxeDrax and #StopBurningTrees
Show threadSellaTheChemistDec 29
@SusiArnott Yes. I need to get my act together.
Show threadDr Susi ArnottDec 29
@sellathechemist You do such a lot within your institution, and who knows which actions have what impact?
Writing to present next week 'What's Science Outreach For? Scientists and the public in a time of global emergency (at an algae conference, needless to say:)
Show threadLionelBDec 29

@sellathechemist

I suspect that there are secret courts and vast financial penalties for even thinking of pulling the plug...

Show threadGrantDec 29

@sellathechemist

Beeb did a Panorama about this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68381160

Drax: UK power station still burning rare forest wood

Owner Drax, which received ÂŁ6bn in subsidies, continues to burn timber from Canadian trees - BBC finds.

Show threadSellaTheChemistDec 29
@gsymon And Private Eye passim passim passim and passim some more.
Show threadRichard 🔶UK #RejoinEUDec 29
@sellathechemist due to campaigning, Drax subsidies were cut in half in this funding round to £0.5bn… they should have been stopped
Show threadConfused Middle Aged DadDec 29
@sellathechemist safety issues involved in transport and storage too. Carbon monoxide formation in ships' holds and self-heating particularly due to the volumes concerned