New Biomass Plant for the UK Looks Like a Giant Green Volcano

by Bridgette Meinhold

The United Kingdom is splattered with fossil fuel based power plants and concrete cooling towers which are major carbon producers as well as eyesores. Luckily, plans for a new biomass power plant covered in native grasses in the UK have just been released and they will complement the surrounding ecology as well as decrease carbon emissions by 80% compared to coal or gas fired power stations. Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, a London-based firm, the 49.3 MW power plant located on the banks of the River Tees will be a man-made mountain covered in plants and will certainly be a welcome replacement to the older, pollution-spewing plants around the country. http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/12/21/new-biomass-plant-for-the-uk-looks-like-a-giant-green-volcano/