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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by bengale on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:19PM (#23468600)
We've got huge nuclear issues in the pipeline though. The latest reactor is going to cost us a fortune and almost all of our existing infrastructure is at the end of its life.
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by regularfry on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:26PM (#23468688)
Well past the original design life, in some cases. Last I heard (and this was a few years ago, so I'm well out of the loop) we were going to commission a bunch of gas plants around the M25 to plug the gap.
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