Cars and other sources of CO2

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Fri 1 Aug 2008 14:16
Cars and other sources of CO2 - Roger Jones
On Jimmy Doherty's Farming Heroes (BBC2) it was said that the single 240m chimney at the Drax power station puts out as much CO2 annually as six million cars. How's that for some perspective on the CO2 issue?

Drax generates 7% of the UK's electricity. How many cars are there in the country -- 25 million?
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Fri 1 Aug 2008 14:25
Cars and other sources of CO2 - skorpio
Ssshhh, don't tell the Government that otherwise they'll tax my kettle!
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Fri 1 Aug 2008 14:26
Cars and other sources of CO2 - ForumNeedsModerating
Or, put another way. UK cars generate, each year, as much direct CO2 as does generating about 30% of our total electricity needs. How's that for some perspective on the CO2 issue?

(taken from your figures)
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Fri 1 Aug 2008 14:40
Cars and other sources of CO2 - jbif
(taken from your figures)


All the stats about Drax [size, coal consumed daily, compared to cars emissions, etc.] nicely summarised in this article.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-462312/A-c...l
[note - the comparision of each 660MW turbines to the physical size to a bus is incorrect. Each 660MW set has an HP, IP, plus 3 LP turbines and from end to end, including the generator, the length is probably around 10 bus lenghts ].

The world position of Drax [which has the cleanest coal burning technology in the UK] in the polluter league is made here:
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/apr/03/carbonemis...t
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/20...l

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