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Tbf im not really on about re building our network based on coal or running off 100% coal. All I'm saying is its been a choice to demolish our remaining working coal power stations. Will that be a good choice time will tell. I don't think it is. A lot here seem to be doing some impressive mental gymnastics to explain why China are building lots of new coal plants but it's ok for them.

Before you pour is better, while the digger is still there.

Sorry my reply wasn't aimed at you it was to the people who were telling me coal isn't secure.

So coal has a place to help secure energy. Are we all paying attention now

Say 200mm stone, 200mm insulation, 100mm slab. 500mm. Less full being 150mm above ground gets you to 350 reduced dig off ground height. Can reduce insulation with pir and prob go down to 150mm with stone

I get the machine to scrape out before he digs the last wall. You just go to whatever depth you need to bottom of stone for slab or clearance for suspended floor. Are you sure its only 200mm below ffl at present? Did you not even scrape the topsoil off prior to trenches? Presumably your ffl is around 150mm above the existing ground before you started?

The competition is who has the most energy not who has the cleanest. Look up how much coal China built in 2024 and 25. They ain't picky about where it comes from solar, nuclear, coal whatever works

How many coal power stations do the Chinese commission each year?

The comment its not working when they blow it up gets me. Obviously they're not blowing it up while burning coal. The point is it was shut down due to poor decisions. It was economically viable. Its like saying the landfill tax on the ash effects the viability. Just get rid of that tax for this byproduct. Job done.

There is a rail line into ratcliffe iirc

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So surely you agree blowing up a functioning power station, when we still have coal in the UK is not a great idea?

Yeh as I say, its crazy we are destroying all this infrastructure. We had a lot of it there. Can they capture any more of the bad particles nowadays with coal?

Yes but also should be careful with the pennies. @JohnMo what did you pay?

I remember it being cheaper than the equivalent u value in pir. Maybe its changed now.

I wouldnt be choosing my insulation based on the packaging it comes in. Eps all the way for me if you have the depth. Cheaper and easier.

I agree OP really should have removed the doors himself and given a spec. Or even engaged a surveyor and got them to get tenders for a spec for the job. But they won't...

Case in point. The airport spotters will be gutted as well they love to get photos with the towers in the background.

Quarter of a century of reliable power while altering the grid and infrastructure for the next phase of power. Sounds great 👍

People will actually be sad when it blows up too. They like to see the cooling towers. Its all just insane.

Reliable, secure, plentiful

I still can't believe we are going to blow up ratcliffe on soar power station. I wonder if we will ever start using coal for electric again in the uk

I did a Dunster house for someone that was excavate, membrane, compacted type 1, gravel grids with 10mm pea gravel.

What about the undiscovered quantities i keep seeing being talked about. There could be a lot more than what is known?

I just emailed some local office, god knows where I got their email and they dropped me loads of bits off. It was all very informal as I remember it around 2018. Last place in 2020 I didn't even bother with a fixed line connection. It wasn't in the regs then. Is there any way to opt out if it nowadays? I still use 5 and 4g for Internet now