Hunterston - beauty or the beast

CO2 per Kwh
Dirty coal: 900g/kWh
Clean coal IGCC: 700g/kWh
Clean coal CCS: 150g/kWh
Wind: 10g/kwh
Nuclear Torness: 5g/kwh

Proposal is for a 1600MWh station
Holyrood requirement is for 300MWh CCS so 1300MWh would be dirty.

Total CO2 emission around 1000 tonnes per hour, 8.5 million tonnes per year.

At 2 grams per litre of CO2 at STP, this is 500 million litres per hour, 500,000 cubic metres.

Enough to fill 1,000 houses every hour, or one home every 3.6 seconds.

Or blanket Largs 2 metres high in 8 hours.

CCS = carbon capture and sequestration,
CO2 = carbon dioxide!

With prevailing wind from the North-West over Hunterston, what is a reasonable dispersion angle and range?

Towns and area affected, e.g. West Kilbride.

Similarly for South-Westerly - Fairlie and Largs, or easterly over Millport.

Any study into the effect of an inversion?

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Interesting figures May 2002 Strathclyde Uni:
Longannet: 2400Mw Hunterston: 1190Mw Torness: 1250Mw

To replace with wind turbines it would take:
Hunterston 5100
Torness 5358
Longannet 4572
(Longannet does not run at full capacity)

total 1.86% of total land area of Scotland
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Hunterston Castle photo wanted

Aerial photo?

Articles wanted

Interesting links

Contact details coming
please be patient

Even more pictures of Hunterston as it is now wanted

Hunterston coal-fired power station - to be or not to be.

Coal power plan for nuclear site (BBC news 20 November 2008)

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Peel Energy and Ayrshire Power official websites:
Peel Energy: Ayrshire power station and Peel and DONG energy: Bringing power and opportunity to North Ayrshire

No artistic impression of Hunterston coal-fueled power station available to us,
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coal power station
Mr Miliband is expected to give the go-ahead for at least one new carbon-capture coal plant (Photo: GETTY )

Coal-burning power stations to get Government approval (Telegraph.co.uk, 21 April 2009)

Fiddlers Ferry at sunset
Fiddlers Ferry coal-fired power station near Liverpool. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Coal stations will be 'lightning rod' for global dissent, warns watchdog's head (Guardian, 13 August 2009 )

hunterston nuclear
Photo by Sunday Herald

Unmasked: the billionaire tax-exile behind Hunterston coal plan (Sunday Herald, 18 October 2009)

Power plans up in smoke? (HeraldScotland 15 Nov 2009)

Clydeport by night
Photo by Rob Edwards

Rob Edwards is Environment Editor for Herald Scotland (The Herald, Sunday Herald).

Help oppose the proposed Hunterston coal-fired power station (RSPB)

ISSUE 1 of Ayrshire Powergrab newsletter

Hunterston and Longannet — NO to new coal sign online petition.

Up to date news from the Largs and Millport Weekly News section on Hunterston.

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