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Tours continue on an electric bus, beetling between colossal structures: to the north, six cooling towers pluming water vapour; to the south six more; to the east, the National Grid sucking in its megawatts via mighty cables; to the west, banks of the coal that once fired the entire complex now being whittled down to its disappearance by 2025. Nearby are four biomass domes. The tour bus shuttles visitors around the site Credit: DANIEL LEWIS "There was a day in April when the UK was powered without coal for 24 hours," said Rachael Baldwin, Visitor Centre and Communities Manager. "That was the first time since the Industrial Revolution. We’re aiming to convert one more coal unit to biomass and the remaining two to gas." Biomass pellets arrive at Drax on sealed trains, using the branch line that once brought coal, and drop 49ft into sealed underground silos. If the biomass gets damp it swells and causes problems. 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