You need to look at the carbon capture technology now in place at Ferrybridge (which has been the trial plant) and now spreading to Drax.

Aren't you assuming the Germans will just pump the emissions out into the atmosphere and not attempt to mitigate them in any way?

I don't know of they are or not but it just seems odd to me that if a country such as Germany is starting to build coal fired power stations they will be building plants as dirty as we might expect in some third world country.

Given the cost of nuclear has anyone in the UK considered given the fact there is still many years of coal reserves left that were previously deemed too expensive to extract, that in comparison to nuclear that cost is now not out of order? If the technology exists to produce clean coal fired power stations I would certainly prefer that compared to nuclear if the cost is roughly the same.

You are confusing emissions with pollution. The reference to carbon indicates generation of carbon dioxide in emissions. Whilst this is not a pollutant, it is the basis of carbon pricing in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas production.

I am doing my bit for climate change.

Just bought a brand new 3L v6 turbo that kicks out loads of carbon.

I fly frequently with work and I like to run my patio heater for no apparent reason.

Can you turn it up a bit? It's been bloody cold for the first 4 months so far.