UK closes last coal power station today after 142 years of using coal – UK had first coal power station in the world

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I thought this was interesting and worthy of note, a day that will go down in history.

We should have kept some plants going as a backup I think, we will see what the future brings. We already pay the most in the world for energy, 400% more than the USA!

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UK is the first major economy to go coal free after being the first in the world to open a coal power station in 1882.

“The first coal-fired power station in the world, the Holborn Viaduct power station, was built in 1882 in London by the inventor Thomas Edison – bringing light to the streets of the capital.”

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o