I’ve been working in Brigg this week just off the A18 and I noticed every morning there’s 4 or 5 trucks parked up in a lay by loaded up with straw . I was wondering what is it used for ?
gerard:
I’ve been working in Brigg this week just off the A18 and I noticed every morning there’s 4 or 5 trucks parked up in a lay by loaded up with straw . I was wondering what is it used for ?
They be going to Renewable Energy Plant of Scawby rd
I thought it might be something like that thanks , while we’re talking straw are farmer allowed to burn it ? When I came off the M18 onto the M180 this morning there seemed to smoke blowing over the motorway it was pretty dense in places
That’s the peat bog on fire bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-s … e-52737613
Farmers have been banned from burning straw since 1993, although some does go up “accidentally”
I wondered exactly how environmentally friendly it is to burn straw. The distance and fuel used to cart it , tyre wear etc , trucks polluting, tractor loading etc . It must be very minimal the amount it saves the environment.
We all have to kow tow to the misguided green movement. I see wood chips being transported many miles for burning in schools and hospitals. Some of it is being imported from America. The wood has about a tenth of the calorific value of oil. Rant over.
Near me is a crop drying plant, used to run on waste oil, a few years ago it was decided that this was not good for the environment, so the burners were replace with coal fired ones at huge expense.
I was in the bar with a friend talking to the fitters who were installing the coal boilers, they were from the North and were staying at the hotel, telling us how efficient these boilers were (95% efficient they said)
Where does the coal come from I said, Russia was the reply,
where does it land?, South Shields was the reply,
so they sail this over from Russia in a diesel powered ship,
then truck it down the A1 for about 4 hours each way (in a diesel truck), up to 100 loads a month when running at full capacity?
Yes indeed was the reply,
And what happens to the oil that they were burning? - Oh that gets shipped out to East Germany was the reply,
And what do they do with that I said, - Oh, they burn it came the reply ■■
So this is progress?, this is good for the environment? this is efficiency ?
What do I know ■■?
It’s the same with Drax, they ship millions of tons of dried wood pellets from Alabama into Immingham and put them on a train to the power station. Before that they were buying low quality Eastern European coal, ours burnt too hot apparently.
Global Warming doesn’t exist in politics and board rooms.
Our school master used to ask a question of anyone he met in a corridor.
“What is heat?”
“Form of energy Sir”
If you didn’t respond with that answer we got a clip round the lug,
It’s still fresh in my mind fifty years later [emoji2]
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Thanks guys. Great posts…Oh so true !
GS