http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Leith biomass plant - "not good for the planet or the economy" - Minister en Fri, 22 May 2026 08:49:52 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3333#post-146812 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:32:33 +0000 wingpig 146812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"Also, is it only me that gets a vision of a loft full of halogen lights and tin-foil whenever they see the words 'Leith Biomass Plant'?"</em></blockquote></p> <p>It brought visions of heaps of rotting foodstuffs from the kitchen waste collections, mounds of leaves from the annual park/path leaf-hooverings or the de-unpleasantified processed sediments from Seafield (and then the resultant smells of the combustion thereof) to my mind. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3333#post-146810 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:29:18 +0000 I were right about that saddle 146810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>More interesting than upland willow, certainly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3333#post-146809 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:25:54 +0000 steveo 146809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>All up in smoke. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3333#post-146808 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:24:44 +0000 fimm 146808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IWRATS you mean with an "interesting" crop? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3333#post-146805 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:00:35 +0000 I were right about that saddle 146805@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It was always a nonsense that one. Particularly galling given that Mr I were right about that saddle senior did some of the pioneering work on 'dendrothermal energy' in the seventies. The best way to get energy by burning wood in Scotland turned out to be copicing willow grown on low-value uplands, but the net yield wasn't huge. </p> <p>Also, is it only me that gets a vision of a loft full of halogen lights and tin-foil whenever they see the words 'Leith Biomass Plant'? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3333#post-146793 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:55:43 +0000 kaputnik 146793@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-26767705">Forth Energy pulls out of Scottish biomass projects</a></p> <p>Seems SSE are pulling out of biomass as they've had a rethink about <strike>how much subsidy they can milk out of taxpayers to burn woodchips shipped across the Atlantic in oil-burning ships</strike> the economics of biomass power. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3333#post-34751 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:20:42 +0000 chdot 34751@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Bid-to-stop-biomass-plant.6794826.jp" rel="nofollow">http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Bid-to-stop-biomass-plant.6794826.jp</a> </p>