Eggborough power station Eggborough power station Eggborough power station was a large coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing biomass. It is situated on the River Aire, between the towns of Knottingley and Snaith, deriving its name from the nearby village of Eggborough. The station had a generating capacity of 1,960 megawatts, enough electricity to power 2 million homes, equivalent to the area of Leeds and Sheffield. The station closed in September 2018, but there are plans to replace it with a 2.5 GW gas power plant. Opened in 1966 to use nearby coal-reserves, the station was built for, and
Hugo Drax Hugo Drax Sir Hugo Drax is a fictional character created by author Ian Fleming for the 1955 James Bond novel "Moonraker". Fleming named him after his friend, Sir Reginald Drax. For the later film and its novelization, Drax was greatly altered from the novel by screenwriter Christopher Wood. In the film, Drax is portrayed by English/French actor Michael Lonsdale. In both the novel and film, Drax is the main antagonist. In the novel Sir Hugo Drax is an English World War II hero, believed to have been working in Liverpool harbour before the war, who became a post-war millionaire. He