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5 minutes ago, gand said:

I'm guessing wood is classed as biomass. It usually is

 

But it isn't... Is it.

 

 

The largest biomass power station is at Lockerbie. The plan was farmers would grow willow... didn't happen. They dig out the tree stumps in clearfell and also take a lot of the scrap (it's where a lot of the Larch here is going)...

 

 

But most of the time it's far too wet. What do they do?

 

They blast a coal dust and oil mixture into the chamber to burn the wood, so that it's still classed as biomass power station ?

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17 minutes ago, DCS6800i said:

 

What do they do?

 

They blast a coal dust and oil mixture into the chamber to burn the wood, so that it's still classed as biomass power station ?

ooooh, I didn’t know that!

 

Everyone knows that they used to blend pulverised coal with the biomass at powerplants such as Drax and Didcot.  They are / were primary coal fired stations after all, but I didn’t know they did that at Steven’s Croft..... I thought it was custom built for biomass... it’s amazing that have the coal handling infrastructure on site.

 

Greta ain’t gonna like this!!

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29 minutes ago, DCS6800i said:

 

But it isn't... Is it.

 

 

The largest biomass power station is at Lockerbie. The plan was farmers would grow willow... didn't happen. They dig out the tree stumps in clearfell and also take a lot of the scrap (it's where a lot of the Larch here is going)...

 

 

But most of the time it's far too wet. What do they do?

 

They blast a coal dust and oil mixture into the chamber to burn the wood, so that it's still classed as biomass power station ?

Thanks good to know, I wasn't aware of that ?

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14 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Alas..... google throws nothing up.

 

Probably being suppressed by them pesky fossil fuel companies.

 

’ere, @DCS6800i got a source?

 

I live local and it's common knowledge.

 

As far as I'm aware it runs on wood/biomass as much as possible. But still has the ability when the wood moisture content is too high

 

EDIT; how often they have to give it a 'help' is anyone's guess

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Let's try to be a bit reasonable here, folks. You are not going to equal either the efficiency(cost per kWh) or the carbon output per kWh of ANY power plant with a combustion engine, let alone a small two stroke engine, regardless of what that power plant uses to make the power. You just aren't. All you have to do is look at the figures of c02/kWh and £/kWh anywhere on the web to figure that out.

 

Yes, batteries will produce some chemical waste. But so does spilling c02 into the air and petroleum products in to the environment at every stage of petrol harvesting there is. And right now we really aren't exactly sure what to do with battery waste since lithium recycling isn't state mandated to be terrifically efficient. This will come.

 

But what batteries do is keep c02 out of the air far better than petroleum(as well as a great many other contaminants). And we simply can not keep pouring c02 and other junk in to the atmosphere indefinitely. It has to stop sometime - that's the main point of making everything electric that we can.

 

The earth is 40,000km around. It's highest peaks are ~9km. If you go halfway up those mountains, you will need extra oxygen to help you breath, assuming you haven't frozen to death yet. That is how thin the layer of breathable air and liveable environment is painted on to this planet. When you look up, it seems infinite. It just isn't. It's finite, and it has to be maintained, or we all suffer.

 

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5 minutes ago, Jamie Jones said:

Gutted... Big fan of the Dolmar Chainsaws. ?
 

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Dam disapointing, I like the brand too, and was / am looking for a bigger saw, am

stuck now for what to do next, maybe I will have to go to Echo, or bite the AT / MT

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