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 for the Soviets, who provide him with not only the atomic bomb, but the support and logistics to use it. Fleming used aspects of his private life to create Drax; Fleming named the character after his acquaintance Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. Other elements of the plot came from Fleming's knowledge of wartime operations carried out by T-Force, a secret British Army unit formed to continue the work of 30 Assault Unit, itself created by Fleming. In the film adaptation, Hugo Drax is a billionaire who owns "Drax Industries", a private company which constructs space shuttles for NASA. Unlike