U.K., home of the industrial revolution, shuts its last coal-fired power plant

www.washingtonpost.com

U.K., home of the industrial revolution, shuts its last coal-fired power plant

www.washingtonpost.com

Doug Holland@lemmy.worldM to AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Britain was a country powered by coal. Now it’s the first G-7 nation to quit it. In a matter of hours, the boilers at the Ratcliffe plant will cool to the touch.

(archived link)

You must log in or register to comment.

Chat

AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.world

aiop@lemmy.world

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !aiop@lemmy.world

This is a page for anything that’s amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound.

♦ ♦ ♦

RULES

① Each player gets six cards, except the player on the dealer’s right, who gets seven.

② Posts, comments, and participants must be amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound.

③ This page uses Reverse Lemmy-Points™, or ‘bad karma’. Please downvote all posts and comments.

④ Posts, comments, and participants that are not amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound will be removed.

⑤ This is a non-smoking page. If you must smoke, please click away and come back later.

Please also abide by the instance rules.

♦ ♦ ♦

Can’t get enough? Visit my blog.

♦ ♦ ♦

Please consider donating to Lemmy and Lemmy.World.

$5 a month is all they ask — an absurdly low price for a Lemmyverse of news, education, entertainment, and silly memes.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

378 users / day
1.66K users / week
3.97K users / month
7.89K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
816 subscribers
962 Posts
4.39K Comments
Modlog

mods:
Doug Holland@lemmy.world