Guest 648- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I was telling my son about Vics idea and said have to put in a few stars,"best***idea that man has ever.This is from a young man who has just obtained a first class honours degree in engineering and travels all over the world with his work.Both sons are engineers.So Vic a bit of praise.
Guest 648- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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missed word Had.Phone went just as i posted.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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As a balance here, yesterdays papers reported the start of a large protest gathering over the development of a new coal powered power station. A spokesperson was reported as refering to the gasification process as, 'greenwash'.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Mark I will get back to your posting when I HAVE MORE TIME,and it is yes I have just got in from flying my Kite off out now again singing for sunday along the sea front.
vic matcham
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I say now to all the old miners still about get your lamps out again and hand them over to your grandsons coal is back but it will be done more safe this time round than your days and more cleaner andthat is good news they will need new skills but that will come to.Lets get the U.K. on the move again and I said it before and now saying it again COAL CAN AND WILL DO IT.
vIC mATCHAM
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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will you be singing with a choir on sunday victor?
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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aye he probably will but usually from a different hymn sheet..boomboom.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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a yes to that I will be singing on sunday, Marek
You could be right on that one to, Ilike to do things my way, or that song"I DID IT MY WAY"
But geting back to COAL after the Mercury had put my post on this forum in their paper this week alot of the public even some that do not know me well, have said well done and they now think we could see coal on the way back.
If our M.P. could just get one kent pit open again in the next two years he will keep his job if the blues say they will open the pits again in the U.K. that will guarantee them geting into power, if the reds do it first it could save them, that is the power of coal now. take it from me alot of politicians will look at coal now as a vote winner and are looking in on this forum and reading what we are saying.
Vic Matcham
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Rather than fil this forum space with all the many arguments against this idea, I would refer to the site,
www.onehundredmonths.org where you will find a fuller discussion of the error of this view, as well as a full break down of many other climate problems to be faced in the very near future.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Brevity - my personal favourite!!!!
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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Never had any family links to the pits but feel we lost something when they went.
It really is a long shot to get the pits up and running again - as has been pointed out the old Kent seams must be no-go zones so the only solution would surely be to drive brand new ones.
I understand there are untapped reserves west of Dover, but under beautiful countryside...and as Chris says, coal is very un-green, so underground gasification is the only way Kent coal might ever be revived, I would think.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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As cited earlier there are problems, and possible dangers with gasification. There is another terror to a coal revival that no one has mentioned, chimney sweeps. Remember Dick Van Dyke? To quote the immortal Marlon Brando.........."The Horror".
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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This coal revival is a non starter.
We need another generation of nuclear fission plants with the problems we are seeing with fuel supplies that is becoming very clear. Renewables certainly have a place and need to be encouraged but that is not the solution.
Hopefully the research going into nuclear fusion will bear results and a new cleaner, safer form of nuclear energy before yet another nuclear generation has to be built after this next one.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Nice to see that coal is back in the letters.
As I said before coal is on the way back it will be cleaner than before and will not cost so much as well, but time will tell which one of us is right, +I am all for wind farms we need alot more of them.
Vic Matcham
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I am sure we can get a few Hot Air farms around here !
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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23 October 2008
20:367977See today two more new coal mines open up in the midlands, that also means more work for the that part of England
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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23 October 2008
21:527982I'd imagine that these are machine intensive open cast mines up there. Down here the seams are at least 2000-3000ft down and I don't want a pit that big in the garden
Been nice knowing you :)
Brian Dixon
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23 October 2008
21:577984yes you are right there scotchie kent pits were that deep i worked down two of them.but not at the same time howard.traind at bettshanger went on to tilmanstone.
24 October 2008
08:377994I have posted my local MP re using water from the aquifers and artesian wells that supply most of the water in the towns and cities around the Downs.
My idea is that the water from the artesian well has to go into a drop tank, and then that drop tank feeds another down the hill from that and so on. Why has there not been placed a water turbine on the feeds to and from each tank creating clean electricity. I am not saying this is the total solution but it may help.
In addition to this, solar panels and small turbines could be placed on lamp posts, hence supplying a battery within for use at night, and when fully charged supply the grid with a converter.
Also DHB could be at the forefront of the idea, not that they would be interested. Not only could the have the first two systems, especially as they have their own drop tanks in the cliffs, but they could have a set of water turbines using tidal power as per Planet Mechanics on National Geographic.
Sorry Vic, but the coal mines were I believe all liable to flooding and uneconomic. We live in different times and coal is a dirty fuel.
