An Elegy for Didcot Power Station - its destruction a metaphor for the folly of our national energy policy

I have revised this posting to mark the final destruction, early in the morning of Sunday 9th February 2020, of the Didcot Power Station's 650-foot chimney, a monumnet to old-fashioned national economic planning, whose construction I witnessed in my teens, and which I never thought I would live to see destroyed. The demolition of this towering structure was apparently considered so necessary that it was blown up on one of the windiest days of recent times. The article below refers to the...