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  Carbon capture and storage (CCS) would be a good solution to the huge problem of emissions of CO2 from coal fired stations. The trouble is that the technology does not exist to be able to do this at the moment. Had Kingsnorth had in place a plan for CCS, then that power station may well have gone ahead. But the attitude there was along the lines of 'well, we will open the plant and make it CCS ready for when the technology is available'. Obviously that was not good enough, hence plans for that station have been shelved for the foreseeable future.
  
  I still find it amazing that we run our 21st century gadgets on 19th century technology - huge fires to boil water to make steam to turn turbines. They are so inefficient that around two thirds of the energy created is wasted. There has to be a better and less wasteful way of using finite resources than coal fired stations in their current form, namely steam turbines.

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