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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Tulyar15 In the last 10 year many coal power stations in Britain have been converted to gas/combined cycle. [/quote] Yep, more than a few energy companies here in the US have made the same horrific mistake, e.g. replacing coal fired electricity at .02/kwh with a "new and improved/environmentally friendly" natural gas combined cycle-fired electricity, which unfortunately raised the cost of generation to .20/kwh at today's natural gas prices. Stupid is as stupid does, and all those PC utilities executives who threw away the cheap alternative for the extremely costly alternative should be fired. The best thing those energy execs could do now is to replace those natural gas plants with coal gasification plants. They may not be able to go back to the .02/kwh price, but at .04/kwh it's still better than those natural gas plants. And if they use the gasification/methanization technology, they can run those plants as peakers, generating electricity at peak electricity demand and pumping out sythetic natural gas into the system when natural gas demand peaks.
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