On Wed, 02 May 2012 10:39:58 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:52:35 +0100, wrote:



I was mistaken. I thought brown coal was a form of peat.
I blame a German who told me it was.
Have Germany started to use Peat as well?

Not that I know of. I think they even want to stop using brown coal
and black coal.

Wouldn't surprise me as with their power shortage since the sudden
close of Nuclear they will probably end up burning Pallets.

In future the Dutch brewery industry will use plastic pallets made out
of recycled plastic, so there may be lots of wooden pallets available.
Did you mean pellets?
No ,I was being sarcastic,they have closed nuclear,if they stop coal
what will they use Gas from the East I suppose.

Affects the UK as well as they are now in competion with us for French
Nuclear output. Britain has been exporting a lot to Europe this winter
much generated in Coal stations.

Are you sure? http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ shows electricity
being imported from France The Netherlands and Ireland.
It does vary but back in the cold snap we seemed to be exporting more
than importing and that seemed unusual compared to what usually
happened. I would be very surprised if the UK was importing from
Ireland ,the link has been constructed because they have limited
resources and they realise the Peat will not be available for ever.
The Gridwatch site is good but it is easy to miss the minus sign on
the figure below the Interconnector dials. minus sign means power
leaving the UK. The Irish link was down for most of the Winter as the
cable got damaged. Other times I've seen in from France and out to the
Netherlands or other way about which must be down to pricing
agreements ,or maybe the Belgians want too much to pass it through.
Anyway I expect most readers have been driven out to their plants by
now so I must do the same. There appears to be a brief patch of
Sunshine.
G.Harman