Britain has gone a week without burning any coal to make electricity - the first coal-free week since [...] the Industrial Revolution. [...] The world's first coal-fired power station was opened in London in 1882.
According to data, no coal has been used by power stations in Britain since around 1pm on 1 May. Instead, other sources of power have taken over, such as wind turbines, gas and nuclear power.
"We believe that, by 2025, we will be able to fully operate Great Britain's electricity system with zero carbon," said a spokesperson for the National Grid.
Time for British Prime Minister Theresa May to celebrate with more flights to Brussels?
Also at: Financial Times (Paywalled), Bloomberg, Ars Technica, and Fox News.
(Score: 3, Informative) by NewNic on Thursday May 09 2019, @06:46PM (2 children)
The United Kingdom is Great Britain plus Northern Ireland.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday May 09 2019, @08:04PM (1 child)
So when they named Brexit, they implicitly excluded Northern Ireland from it? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday May 10 2019, @07:58AM
That's also why it's not been finished yet.