Power Station Sabbing

[andygates]

Is power-station saboteuring the new black? 

If the government aren't willing or able to cut emissions, people who see sites like Kingsnorth and Drax as great evils will take matters into their own hands.  The protest argument has been won, but the powers that be look to be speaking with forked agenda: plenty of declared commitment but the praxis seems to be lagging dangerously far behind.  Hardly surprising then that the next thing to be done is direct shutdown action.  Prediction: There will be more of this. 

Mostly, though, this sab is a warning shot.  What this says, very clearly, is that any construction of the new coal plant at Kingsnorth will not go unopposed. 

Comments

[despaer.livejournal.com]

Hope that lad isn't using any electricity to power the internet-connected PC he will no doubt boast about this on. Or for that matter heating his house.

Yes, stuff needs to be done and yes, I wish the government would get on and fund every house to do some of its own microgeneration and invest in hydrogen cars with the hydrogen produced by splitting water with micro-generated solar power in every garage but this is more or less terrorism. It sounds good but it risks hurting innocent people either directly by breaking the power station or through the loss of the power they were using to keep themselves alive, and that aint acceptable.

[shifty-176.livejournal.com]

Maybe 1/80 of the generated total at the time? Should be covered without too much difficulty - that's why we have grid balancing engineers in the first place. They should be covered for the loss of the biggest single generator (UK, usually Sizewell B, 1,300MW). The end of Eastenders probably gives them more trouble.

Realtime demand here (http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Electricity/Data/Realtime/Demand/Demand60.htm)