The West is over
OR-UK's WW3 Plan: Stop oil, gas and steel production, close down manufacturing - Then, and only then, go to War with Russia & China
UK closes last coal power station today after 142 years of using coal - UK had first coal power station in the world.
UK pays the most in the world for energy, 400% more than the USA!
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.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03081060.2023.2279711#d1e134. As part of its net zero initiative, the UK Government launched its ‘Jet Zero’ Strategy, which pledges to deliver net zero aviation in the UK by 2050. This Strategy document details measures which will drive further system efficiencies, accelerate the development and use of new technologies and alternative fuels, explore opportunities for market-based measures and price mechanisms and influence consumer behaviour (DfT Citation2022; Hirst Citation2021). In addition to setting 2050 as the target date for net zero aviation in the UK, the Strategy also sets an ambitious timeline for ‘all domestic flights to achieve net zero by 2040’ and ‘aspiring for all airport operations in England to be zero emission by the same year’ (DfT Citation2022, 4).
Although much of the emphasis to date has been on designing and operating more environmentally efficient (and hence less polluting) aircraft, it is only relatively recently that airports have been identified as a source of carbon emissions. In the UK, the Government recognised that airports have a key role in achieving net zero and stated its ‘ambition for all airport operations in England to be zero emission by 2040’ (DfT Citation2022, 9).
I read the only airports to be operating 2050, would be Heathrow, Edinburgh, (Scotland), and Belfast, (N. Ireland). Wales' capital, Cardiff, doesn't have one.
There is nothing more worthy of contempt than economic and social goals set by government. They swing at pitches that have already been caught. The waste of resources is extraordinary to behold.