BLUEMOMENT

I am informed by Notice to Mariners that the power station at Inverkip will be blasted away at 1500hrs on Wednesday the 18th July, The blast will be contained so only a big bang to be heard offshore. The end of a landmark.

Old Troll wrote:I am informed by Notice to Mariners that the power station at Inverkip will be blasted away at 1500hrs on Wednesday the 18th July, The blast will be contained so only a big bang to be heard offshore. The end of a landmark.

Only little bits of it for now - The chimney will remain so that I can find my way home.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/111240-cont ... r-station/

Ash

Is this part of wee Eck's anti-nuke policy? The navy will never be able to find Coulport or Faslane without the FBC to guide them.

Wott a 'kin waste of money.
How much to buy the site, build the station, mothball the station, destroy the station : set against the profit it made on the generated product?(NIL) SACK THE LOT OF THEM . and withhold the pensions.

Bill
You really must get off the fence on this one.....

sahona wrote:Wott a 'kin waste of money.
How much to buy the site, build the station, mothball the station, destroy the station : set against the profit it made on the generated product?(NIL) SACK THE LOT OF THEM . and withhold the pensions.

To be fair, it was a pretty good idea when it was designed and built as an oil fired power station with its own deep-water jetty allowing direct deliveries of fuel from tankers. It was the 1973 oil crisis which stuffed the economics, and that certainly wasn't foreseen very far ahead. So, given that its fuel costs quadrupled just as construction finished, what were the SSEB to do?

Are they planning to bring the chimney down?

Calm down, chimney navigators. All will be well, you will see.
We in Troon thought the world would end when the big white Ailsa shed was demolished, but as far as I'm aware, we all made it back. Now we look for the mast on Dundonald Hill showing the "not under command" red lights.

ubergeekian wrote:

sahona wrote:Wott a 'kin waste of money.
How much to buy the site, build the station, mothball the station, destroy the station : set against the profit it made on the generated product?(NIL) SACK THE LOT OF THEM . and withhold the pensions.

To be fair, it was a pretty good idea when it was designed and built as an oil fired power station with its own deep-water jetty allowing direct deliveries of fuel from tankers. It was the 1973 oil crisis which stuffed the economics, and that certainly wasn't foreseen very far ahead. So, given that its fuel costs quadrupled just as construction finished, what were the SSEB to do?

Are they planning to bring the chimney down?

Quite. The build contracts were signed months before the Yom Kippur war. The construction had to go ahead, but did so with no progress chasing, no overtime, no additional costs. At commissioning a boiler collapsed when a control failure left the ID fans running when the FDs tripped. No problem - down to the contractors to sort out and rebuild. Payment on completion.

It ran in peak lopping mode for a few years then flat out during the miners' strike - a profitable exercise which recovered at least some of the investment. A bit more money was then recovered by flogging off some of the high value bits of plant: the 660MW generator rotors and stators were standard with the CEGB's later stations so some of them were moved south to replace failed units.

So, yes, a bit of a sad story really, but SSEB made the best they could out of it. In defence of my former employer, SSEB were noticeably more successful than either the CEGB (compare their respective AGR records) and, in particular, their privatised successor which in its 22 years of existence has failed to build any major power stations at all.

I would imagine that at some stage the chimney will come down, but don't know when.

sahona wrote:Calm down, chimney navigators. All will be well, you will see.
We in Troon thought the world would end when the big white Ailsa shed was demolished, but as far as I'm aware, we all made it back. Now we look for the mast on Dundonald Hill showing the "not under command" red lights.

Troon used to be easy. Just look for the red "Safeway" sign, and you were there.

Then Morrisons took over Safeway, and changed the red light to the same colour as the streetlights. Not so easy now!

ICI's huge cooling tower at the then nylon plant in Ardeer collapsed one night in a gale. It was never rebuilt but production continued for a few years. Seems it wasn't needed.

There used to be a fabulous pair in Fleetwood but they've gone too.

We passed it yesterday and as far as I could see it was still there!

claymore wrote:There used to be a fabulous pair in Fleetwood but they've gone too.

are we still on about chimneys?

Aja wrote:

claymore wrote:There used to be a fabulous pair in Fleetwood but they've gone too.

are we still on about chimneys?

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