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UK carbon emissions (from power generation) soar!
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Andy Mayhew
Posted 28/3/2007 07:47 (#161318)
Subject: UK carbon emissions (from power generation) soar!



Executive

Location: Evesham, Worcs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6501009.stm

Carbon dioxide emissions from Britain's power stations have grown markedly in recent years, a report has concluded.

Commissioned by the environmental group WWF from consultants IPA, it found that UK power sector emissions rose by nearly 30% between 1999 and 2006

 

Oops :%  

 

All them windfarms don't seem to have had much of an impact then, guess we'd better build a few hundred thousand more if we're to reduce emission by 60% ;)    (especially since emissions from transport etc are also constantly going up)

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Chris Lloyd
Posted 28/3/2007 07:51 (#161321 - in reply to #161318)
Subject: Re: UK carbon emissions (from power generation) soar!


I think everyone should plant a tree. Got more chance that way. I have a beautiful 100ft tall copper beach tree in my garden. That tree probably processes 1000 times more C02 per year than my car produces in a year.
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Peter H
Posted 28/3/2007 08:12 (#161333 - in reply to #161321)
Subject: Re: UK carbon emissions (from power generation) soar!


Location: Dartmoor, Devon

Chris Lloyd - 28/3/2007 13:51 I think everyone should plant a tree. Got more chance that way. I have a beautiful 100ft tall copper beach tree in my garden. That tree probably processes 1000 times more C02 per year than my car produces in a year.

You may find out what you don't want to know

Certainly not 1000 times...quick google time...

Tree:

http://www.treeflights.com/faq.html#section13

"Since roughly 50% of a tree is water, a mature Beech will have fixed CO2 according to the following equation. 2.5 X 1.65 = 4.125 Tonnes of CO2."

Car:

Best I can do so far, a year 2000 report from the BBC

"more than the 2,255 kg produced annually by the average British motorist's 16,108 km"

So, ball park, the lifetime of a mature beech tree to absorb two years of average driving, even 100% out the lifetime of one beech every four year. Makes me think

Of course if the tree dies and rots the CO2 is released



Edited by Peter H 28/3/2007 08:18
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HSEA
Posted 28/3/2007 08:39 (#161341 - in reply to #161318)
Subject: Re: UK carbon emissions (from power generation) soar!





Location: East Cambs, 11m asl		im alarmed (no, really, i am)
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Andy Mayhew
Posted 28/3/2007 09:11 (#161351 - in reply to #161318)
Subject: Re: UK carbon emissions (from power generation) soar!



Executive

Location: Evesham, Worcs		Well the best solution would be to turn the lights off, not have the central heating on all year round, and generally wtach your energy consumption both in the home and at work .....

But that has the big disadvantage of meaning you pay lower electricity bills as well - and apparently most people (but big companies in particular) object to having to do that
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Maalie
Posted 28/3/2007 09:55 (#161360 - in reply to #161351)
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Location: Furness, Cumbria 54°.11N', 03°.12'W Elev.10m
Andy Mayhew - 28/3/2007 14:11

Well the best solution would be to turn the lights off, not have the central heating on all year round, and generally watch your energy consumption both in the home and at work .....

But that has the big disadvantage of meaning you pay lower electricity bills as well - and apparently most people (but big companies in particular) object to having to do that :s


Since my last gas quarterly bill was (for the first time) over £100 I have made very severe cuts in my household carbon emissions from all sources, for that very reason (cutting bills). I am not claiming that it will do anything to save the planet, I believe it is what managers call "enlightened self interest".

However, any good I have done will have been cancelled out by my drive to Scotland to see Abroath beat East Stirling 3-2 last night.
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John Hill
Posted 28/3/2007 10:21 (#161376 - in reply to #161318)
Subject: Re: UK carbon emissions (from power generation) soar!






Location: Willenhall, West Midlands, UK		Its amazing when you bring the facts and figures out how it really hits home!
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sunspoter
Posted 28/3/2007 18:03 (#161608 - in reply to #161318)
Subject: Re: UK carbon emissions (from power generation) soar!


Banned


Location: The Black Country, South Staffs and Birmingham		Not surprising.
There isn't enough nuclear generation going on to get us away from fossil fuel, France is sorted.

The restriction on nuclear proliferation (for energy usage) is going to push more focus onto coal as gas becomes unattractive, ie what we see in China. There is plenty of coal left and it probably will become cheaper than gas, the economics of this are taught at a Key Stage in secondary school, or they were when I learnt about energy. It just seems like a last ditch attempt, clutching at straws and trying to reach oxygen in a sinking ship, trying to resist nuclear but knowing it's the only way to sustain what we have today until renewables come up to speed.

Don't worry, it'll come to its natural conclusion without any kind of tipping point climate wise, the debate will move on from CO2 anyway when human carbon emissions reach their perfectly natural trough and into the predicted and certain decline. The climate will still be changing, long after the CO2 is back in the ocean and the debate will be about toxic waste once again, so they'll always be some targets which are missed or ignored.
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