Misleading image from BBC

[Rob_the_Sparky]

Republic of Ireland to ban the sale of polluting solid fuels - BBC News

 

Ireland are not banning the burning of wood yet they show an image of a wood burner burning logs and you have to read to the end of the article to find that out.  Bias anyone, or just poorly informed reporting?

[Mick Dempsey]

I believe it’s called clickbait.

 

[Pete Mctree]

The good old British Brainwashing Cooperation - the worlds biggest, publicly funded propaganda machine 😬 

[Haironyourchest]

Clickbait. And/or lazy journalism. (Google "solid fuel - image", click, copy, paste, time for coffee).

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

They get more traffic to the story, more advertising revenue.

So over dramatic headlines are used.

 

I believe that’s how it works anyway.

[djbobbins]

From experience, there is definite limited understanding by BBC story writers of technical details. One particular memory from a few years ago was a BBC story saying that gas and coal prices had flipped, so that power station operators were switching their gas fired plants to run on coal.

Put it bluntly, this was wide of the mark. The large majority of gas-fired power stations are gas turbine based, so have very expensive air filter systems to remove particulates from the incoming combustion air. It wouldn’t be pretty to start lobbing tonnes of solid fuel in…

[Stere]

But the bbc doesn't have adverts and I thought most gas power plants used more efficient steam turbines.....

 

Combined cycle power plant - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

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Does CCGT use coal?

 

 

Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (CCGT)are a form of highly efficient energy generation technology that combines a gas-fired turbine with a steam turbine. ... The technology is typically powered using natural gas, but it can also be fueled using coal, biomass and even solar power as part of solar combined cycle plants.

 

Edited September 10, 2021 by Stere