“End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down

UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for good

Just watched this tangential video on the tubes. youtu.be/p-wrruwzASc?...

Why British Nuclear Energy Failed

YouTube video by Asianometry

It seems weird how quickly it happened in the end. Places you used to pass on the motorway or train for years where there were vast mountains of coal. That said, some have switched to biomass, so not exactly clean energy. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Po...