A bit of history for reflection21 Sep 2023 17:45
Scottish engineer William Murdoch first put coal gas to practical use, lighting his house in Cornwall with it in 1792.
Murdoch’s employers, the Birmingham steam engine manufacturers Boulton and Watt, started to build small gas works for large users like factories. The first of these was installed in a cotton mill in Manchester in 1806.
In 1807 a German businessman Frederick Winsor obtained a Royal Charter to build public gas works and the first opened in 1813 in Westminster.
Gas lighting proved so popular that, within 15 years, almost every large town in Britain, as well as major cities in Europe, North America and beyond, had a gas works. The Company which Winsor founded, the Gas Light and Coke Company, continued to supply most of London’s gas until the industry was nationalised in 1949
Considering the size of our Eqtec plant I fail to see how it could hope to take the place of energy supply to this country without going back 200 years and following the same timescale of growth. This country and everyone else is running around trying to put together major energy info structure projects. Our company is just one small part of that. I expected delays and problems. Hence why I see it as a gamble.
But a gamble worth taking.
My own county of Essex is running a survey to find alternative energy sources from waste for the next ten or more years
I will be putting EQTEC and PHE as two possible suggestions