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Leith biomass plant - "not good for the planet or the economy" - Minister
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Posted 14 years ago #
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Forth Energy pulls out of Scottish biomass projects
Seems SSE are pulling out of biomass as they've had a rethink about
how much subsidy they can milk out of taxpayers to burn woodchips shipped across the Atlantic in oil-burning shipsthe economics of biomass power.Posted 11 years ago # -
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.
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'?
Posted 11 years ago # -
IWRATS you mean with an "interesting" crop?
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All up in smoke.
Posted 11 years ago # -
More interesting than upland willow, certainly.
Posted 11 years ago # -
"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'?"
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.
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