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Sticking around to dismantle your old workplace sounds like a lot of fun. Cathartic even.

by Oarch 2y ago

LeonM 2y ago
I'm not sure why, but reading the article I got an urge to just apply for a job to help clean up the site. The coal plant served us (humanity), and now it's time to clean up after ourselves and return the land for other use. It seems like a fitting final chapter of the coal era
- pjc50 2y ago
  There was a plan to convert the Cockenzie site into an assembly site for offshore wind turbines. I don't think that quite got there, but it now looks like there are plans to use it for landing offshore generation cables and for battery storage. Which is very fitting. https://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/210547/planning_and_building_standards/12312/former_cockenzie_power_station https://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/210547/planning_and_buil...
  - goodcanadian 2y ago
    Makes sense . . . the grid infrastructure is already in place at that site.
pfdietz 2y ago
Dismantling fossil fuel infrastructure will free up enormous amounts of steel for recycling. I wonder what they did or will do with all the ash, though.
- goodcanadian 2y ago
  I wonder what they did or will do with all the ash, though. If I am not mistaken, I believe they landfill it.
- pjc50 2y ago
  Much of it is reused as a cement additive. https://www.cemex.co.uk/fly-ash https://www.cemex.co.uk/fly-ash
  - pfdietz 2y ago
    A report on this: https://www.ukqaa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/UKQAA-Ash-Availability-Report-Jan-2016.pdf https://www.ukqaa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/UKQAA-As... The fraction is larger than I would have guessed. I imagine they will now be working through stockpiles.
- zeristor 2y ago
  Rye House power station dumped the ash in the nearby gravel pits of Lea Valley, which is quite good for orchids. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/23/plantwatch-simons-industrial-poor-soil-tips-orchids-farming-fertilisers https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/23/plantwatch-s...
  - pfdietz 2y ago
    How interesting!

Sticking around to dismantle your old workplace sounds like a lot of fun. Cathartic even.

by Oarch 2y ago

Sticking around to dismantle your old workplace sounds like a lot of fun. Cathartic even.

I'm not sure why, but reading the article I got an urge to just apply for a job to help clean up the site. The coal plant served us (humanity), and now it's time to clean up after ourselves and return the land for other use. It seems like a fitting final chapter of the coal era

pjc50 2y ago
There was a plan to convert the Cockenzie site into an assembly site for offshore wind turbines. I don't think that quite got there, but it now looks like there are plans to use it for landing offshore generation cables and for battery storage. Which is very fitting. https://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/210547/planning_and_building_standards/12312/former_cockenzie_power_station https://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/210547/planning_and_buil...
- goodcanadian 2y ago
  Makes sense . . . the grid infrastructure is already in place at that site.

pfdietz 2y ago

Dismantling fossil fuel infrastructure will free up enormous amounts of steel for recycling. I wonder what they did or will do with all the ash, though.

goodcanadian 2y ago
I wonder what they did or will do with all the ash, though. If I am not mistaken, I believe they landfill it.
pjc50 2y ago
Much of it is reused as a cement additive. https://www.cemex.co.uk/fly-ash https://www.cemex.co.uk/fly-ash
- pfdietz 2y ago
  A report on this: https://www.ukqaa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/UKQAA-Ash-Availability-Report-Jan-2016.pdf https://www.ukqaa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/UKQAA-As... The fraction is larger than I would have guessed. I imagine they will now be working through stockpiles.
zeristor 2y ago
Rye House power station dumped the ash in the nearby gravel pits of Lea Valley, which is quite good for orchids. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/23/plantwatch-simons-industrial-poor-soil-tips-orchids-farming-fertilisers https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/23/plantwatch-s...
- pfdietz 2y ago
  How interesting!