tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.comments2024-03-15T04:57:31.264+00:00Irish Energy BlogIrish Energy http://www.blogger.com/profile/16354100971015557625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1367125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-67838714620267441272022-12-26T11:22:11.069+00:002022-12-26T11:22:11.069+00:00Current is not an adhoc development. It is based o...Current is not an adhoc development. It is based on an ideological construct that is anti science and is deliberate. The quality of the research carried out and payed for by the Irish is extremely poor. Some of its observations are so off the wall and unworkable.That one can only conclude it was written to satisfy the ravings of a lunatic politician. There must be accountability for those who wrote it . To ensure that garbage like this is not produced again. It must be shown that they cannot walk away without consequences Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-29393197678977547352022-10-17T23:08:17.407+01:002022-10-17T23:08:17.407+01:00I believe there was a discussion on building a nuc...I believe there was a discussion on building a nuclear power plant as far as the early/mid 70's.<br />I remember the Carnsore Point demonstrations, late 70's, RTE <br />Interviewing English people and musicians at the protests.<br />We would be in a much better position today financially if we had Nuclear power in the 80's.Observernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-158864792544611412022-09-04T11:14:44.865+01:002022-09-04T11:14:44.865+01:00Lets hope they avail of the CJEU ruling 24/19.Lets hope they avail of the CJEU ruling 24/19.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-81388464075732900592022-07-14T12:19:48.934+01:002022-07-14T12:19:48.934+01:00Check out Bloomberg Natural gas soars 700%. Becom...Check out Bloomberg Natural gas soars 700%. Becoming driving force in new cold war. Everything we warned of has come to pass. It seems to be free to view.<br /> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/the-global-energy-crisis-just-got-even-worse-here-s-why?utm_medium=cpc_social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=BLOM_ENG_EDITORL_Y0469_FB_SO_WENG_FOCUSPROSX_INTST_00XXXXCPM_2PFB_XXXX_GENERALINTSTX_XXXXX_Y0469_XXXXX_ALLFOA_CWAR_C3_EN_PG_NFLINKS&dclid=CjgKEAjw_b6WBhD1vt_M952u-hwSJABwmQ0M-lVcCZB_5RBQ_-78Wf3Y9HJm5rygCaYWDlxBpEqoCPD_BwEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-67269279167170156582022-04-20T09:32:53.277+01:002022-04-20T09:32:53.277+01:00The climate hysteria and the wind farm scam to acc...The climate hysteria and the wind farm scam to accompany it are a human condition so that many people have to feel frightened about something. There is usually a ranking of scares, Hell was top for a long time, then nuclear war, global cooling and then warming. Now with Ukraine, the spectre world war looms. The spectre of nuclear war looms also. It looks to me like the Russians helped climate nutters in the west with money and advice to push this green wind and solar generation so as to make it more reliant on Russian energy. Val Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248166816744009791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-82032489471363052982022-04-12T10:57:04.663+01:002022-04-12T10:57:04.663+01:00Many portable generators only generate a few hundr...Many portable generators only generate a few hundred watts of power. This isn't enough for a CPAP machine or other high-powered appliances. These devices have a capacity of about 240 watts. For more details about best portable generators, <a href="https://classifieds.newsbreak.com/new-york/new-york/general/post/general-182021674-1649753348453/Most%20Individuals%20are%20Not%20Prepared%20for%20the%20Noise%20Generators%20Create" rel="nofollow"><b>visit this site right here</b></a>.charliesmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11223592353150690907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-49694203532006669122022-04-08T10:56:37.455+01:002022-04-08T10:56:37.455+01:00The only downside is that they can be bulky, so yo...The only downside is that they can be bulky, so you may need to consider a small one if you have a limited budget. And when you find a unit you love, you will want to make sure you buy it. To know more about best whole house generator, <a href="https://www.elephantjournal.com/2022/04/briggs-and-stratton-20kw-standby-generator/" rel="nofollow"><b>check here</b></a>.Diego Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16319768834485597226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-60630119303057173202022-03-13T10:02:03.997+00:002022-03-13T10:02:03.997+00:00This is propaganda. There are two types of renewa...This is propaganda. There are two types of renewable energy and both are rare 1) is reliable firm type which can supply the grid with no other source running along side it. 2) the other is unreliable intermittent type which needs constant fossil fuel back up generation inn the power station. Iceland has geothermal power plants because it is located on the meeting fault of the American and European tectonic plates. Its other resource if fish. It has virtually no land or other assets. It is not comparable with Ireland which has land and assets. Norway has mountain rivers which are of little agricultural value. They produce Hydro power. Understanding this distinction is vital. Val Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248166816744009791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-5884998451660890642022-02-24T18:40:04.397+00:002022-02-24T18:40:04.397+00:00They might get more signatures of support if they ...They might get more signatures of support if they removed their support in general for renewable energy junk and their subsequent NIMBY comments from the petition!<br /><br />‘We fully support the need to make fast progress on renewable energy...’<br /><br />‘....as stated by TD for North Cork Aindrias Moynihan in the Dáil, “You cannot make another Gougane Barra but you can find other locations for a wind farm.”...’<br /><br />https://www.change.org/p/an-bord-pleanála-save-the-peace-tranquility-of-gougane-barra-for-future-generations-petition-onlyCarmel McCormacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-52873843793196981522022-02-21T23:13:59.114+00:002022-02-21T23:13:59.114+00:00Gougane Barra is a very special place however........Gougane Barra is a very special place however.......Who in their right mind would sign a NIMBY petition?<br />‘We fully support the need to make fast progress on renewable energy; there are already more than 35 turbines visible from the hills around Ballingeary village, just a few kms from Gougane Barra. However, as stated by TD for North Cork Aindrias Moynihan in the Dáil, “You cannot make another Gougane Barra but you can find other locations for a wind farm.”...’Carmel McCormacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-54460078009435604052022-02-20T20:26:48.604+00:002022-02-20T20:26:48.604+00:00The big problem with wind generation is that it ac...The big problem with wind generation is that it actually saves very little to no CO2 Emissions.What ever CO2 emissions that are saved by restructuring of the grid is caused by the move over to gas. Especially when operating combined cycle gas. There are virtually no CO2 savings when the preponderance of electricity is generated by Open Cycle Gas. Crazy Eamon and advisors never even attempted to model the likely output of the grid with a large capacity of wind generation.I reckon it is because they would would come up against the intermittency problem. Solving that, the intermittency problem, in a model would be impossible. Solving the intermittency problem in an operating grid with loads of wind generating capacity is also impossible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-45549886355962086442022-01-19T19:08:51.725+00:002022-01-19T19:08:51.725+00:00"Reading the Irish Landscape" by Frank M..."Reading the Irish Landscape" by Frank Mitchell and Michael Ryan has some excellent explanations on this and other interesting landscape anomalies , like raised beaches and climate related graphs (pre global warming hysteria)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-10363551763307465652022-01-19T15:19:06.906+00:002022-01-19T15:19:06.906+00:00Excellent point. I visited Ceide Fields last year ...Excellent point. I visited Ceide Fields last year and this is a great example where man altered the landscape by raising cattle on land with poor soil quality. Man's activities created the bog that now covers the stone walls. Irish Energy https://www.blogger.com/profile/16354100971015557625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-9591901092589354012022-01-19T09:34:31.877+00:002022-01-19T09:34:31.877+00:00Unless I have failed to understand what 'highe...Unless I have failed to understand what 'higher levels of peat...' mean, then surely we have the best evidence of relative timing at Ceide Fields in Mayo. Here the old wall system is buried under the complete peat profile of the area, therefore pre-dating peat growth. It raises the additional question of the timing of, and dating of, peat bog growth in Ireland, in view of Pryor's statements.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10489405333917956839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-10395658507995966202022-01-17T05:36:15.791+00:002022-01-17T05:36:15.791+00:00This article (if the link works) shows that while...This article (if the link works) shows that while the risk of a European wide power failure is low, it is possible and has not been properly considered by authorities. https://www.greco.services/en/news/blackout-europe.html It may be linked using a search with the words "blackout in Europe greco services". In cold weather a week without electricity would be severe.Val Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05752665374680276342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-6039821064136941222022-01-10T09:02:49.780+00:002022-01-10T09:02:49.780+00:00Intel have announced that they are not going to in...Intel have announced that they are not going to invest 80 billion Euros in Galway, Ireland but will look to Germany and Poland. There are many reasons but they already have a successful plant in Ireland. One reason cited is electricity insecurity. They need a secure supply of three phase electricity and the experience of many existing factories in Ireland is that they are being requested by government to get into the business of supplying the grid with electricity from their own gas and diesel power packs. They are told to stop production and divert their power to the national grid. Intel are in the business of making electronic components not replacing the ESB. Factories that comply have still to pay their staff for being idle. Another factor is cost of power in Ireland which is very high but German power is very high too. They might chose Poland is they can trust its government to keep mining coal. <br />Val Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05752665374680276342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-15812537213068675652022-01-10T08:53:13.150+00:002022-01-10T08:53:13.150+00:00We tend to believe mathematicians get it right al...We tend to believe mathematicians get it right all the time. I suspect they do not and they make their own financial bed by complicating things. A bug bear of mine is that the way of counting negative numbers is false. Negative numbers do not exist in nature. Temperature begins at zero kelvins, age starts at birth and no atom has a negative number. A minus sign is just the direction such as north and south. A minus by a minus is a minus (not a plus). The square route of minus 1 = -1 and the square root of minus 36 = -6. Val Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05752665374680276342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-73410780215389044402022-01-02T13:07:58.321+00:002022-01-02T13:07:58.321+00:00So that is why they are going for floating models?...So that is why they are going for floating models? Irish Energy https://www.blogger.com/profile/16354100971015557625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-82313404999078963802022-01-02T13:04:58.151+00:002022-01-02T13:04:58.151+00:00It doesn't provide 35 %. Back up plant is not ...It doesn't provide 35 %. Back up plant is not included in that figure. Plant that can't be switched off. Also off Grid generation makes up a large proportion at times of low wind. This is not counted in the official figures. Irish Energy https://www.blogger.com/profile/16354100971015557625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-80865483141197968512022-01-02T11:08:06.906+00:002022-01-02T11:08:06.906+00:00The latest news is that the EU are planning to des...The latest news is that the EU are planning to designate nuclear and gas energy sources as green. Val Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248166816744009791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-58239359748636110202021-12-31T19:16:56.907+00:002021-12-31T19:16:56.907+00:00The geology of the Atlantic Coast means off shore ...The geology of the Atlantic Coast means off shore wind farmss are unsuitable. That's why no windfarms on the windiest coast line of Europe, same for England and Scotland, nothing in Cornwall or the Hebrides...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017603755770030341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-68460616853711462222021-12-29T16:33:56.154+00:002021-12-29T16:33:56.154+00:00The Natives pay for the energy infrastructure requ...The Natives pay for the energy infrastructure required to import cheap nuclear generated electricity to power the data centres.<br /><br />Well that was the plan!<br /><br />Leaving the costs of the Celtic Interconnector aside the cheap imported electricity would have reduced the level of subsidised electricity that the Big Corporate Data Centres receive courtesy of the Natives. Now if cheap electricity supply from France is no longer available then the Celtic Interconnector is already redundant before it has even been put into operation. And that means the poor Natives may have to continue subsidising at a high rate the electricity consumed by Big Corporate Data Centres. And as electricity prices continue to rise then also the level of subsidisation of electricity enjoyed by Big Corporates increases and the increased costs are then likely to be passed on to the poor Natives. Big Corporates with a high demand for electricity tend to negotiate favourable rates per kW/h and tend to negotiate favourable ‘load shedding’ agreements whereby the poor Natives have their lights switched off first in the event of grid frequency instabilities and power outages.<br />The leader of the Green Party thought installing lots of unreliable expensive Interconnectors were the solution to all the problems caused by having too much intermittent renewables in the energy mix. As Minister for Energy he must be apoplectic now at the thoughts of having to switch Moneypoint coal power plant back on, having to commission new gas power plants, having to ask Industry to switch to using their on site dual fuel/diesel generators and together with soaring electricity prices.......whatever happened to the 3S Mantra of a Safe Secure (Affordable) Supply of electricity?!Carmel McCormacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-60541160486236459052021-12-28T23:36:33.118+00:002021-12-28T23:36:33.118+00:00‘....the Celtic Interconnector, one of Ireland'...‘....the Celtic Interconnector, one of Ireland's most critical projects which will link us to France’ Critical for whom? Intended to supply cheap nuclear power from France on a direct line to Big Corporate Data Centres and destroying Ireland’s landscape in the process with ugly high voltage power lines that are totally unnecessary for the domestic demand minus the data centres?! And who paid the lions share for the Celtic Interconnector? And the transmission energy infrastructure? And now funnily France currently has one of the highest electricity prices in Europe....of course several of these issues were well pointed out to officialdom from the outset but it seems that protecting the interests of Big Corporates sadly outweighed protecting the best interests of the Indigenous Natives!<br />Extract from article....<br /><br />'France has suffered a spike in electricity prices after its nuclear-reliant grid was stretched by the temporary closure of four reactors.<br /><br />The reactors, which are not expected to re-open until well into next year, were taken offline after faults were discovered during safety checks.<br /><br />French prices soared to their highest since 2009, putting them among the highest in Europe. It adds to a wider energy squeeze, with Europe at the mercy of cold weather and political developments in Russia, its main gas supplier.<br /><br />A pressure group called Ecology Action called for the resignation of Energy Minister Barbara Pompili over the closures, which have forced France to import electricity produced from fossil fuels.<br /><br />Ms Pompili is “directly responsible for the current fiasco”, the group said, after overseeing the closure of two other reactors last year. Further outages are expected in January.<br /><br />The minister said there was no danger of blackouts in France because of contingency plans to reduce voltage and energy use. She asked French electric company EDF, which runs 56 nuclear reactors in France, whether it could restart its offline reactors sooner than planned.<br /><br />Safety inspectors found faults in two reactors at the Civaux power plant, and another two were switched off at the Chooz facility because they were the same type of reactor.<br /><br />France gets about 70 per cent of its electricity from nuclear power. The setback comes as it plans a new generation of nuclear reactors and leads a push to have them classified as climate-friendly by the EU.'<br /><br />https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/world/french-nuclear-closures-send-electricity-prices-soaring/<br /><br />https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/edf-extend-civaux-nuclear-outage-shut-down-reactors-chooz-safety-measures-2021-12-15/<br />Carmel McCormacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-63262782152854056392021-12-28T18:27:39.310+00:002021-12-28T18:27:39.310+00:00Many of the mythological 100% renewable energy pow...Many of the mythological 100% renewable energy powered data centres installed in Ireland are in reality massive fossil fuel guzzlers that are powered predominantly with heavily subsidised electricity from the national grid. It’s ironic that the more electricity that industries consume then the less they pay per kW/h. So where is the incentive for Industry to be more energy efficient and significantly reduce their electricity demand if they then have to pay more per kW/h of electricity consumed?<br />Most Data Centres have proposed to install banks and banks of dual fuel/diesel generators with a potential total generating capacity of a medium sized conventional fossil fuel power plant for each and every corporate data centre installed. And most are installed in built up areas. None of this was properly socioeconomically and environmentally assessed at the policy making and at the planning stage.....even when serious issues were pointed out. How much are Industries now getting paid to go off grid and switch to their on site dual fuel/diesel electricity generation? And what impact does this have, if any, on the cost of regular business and domestic electricity bills and taxes in general? People by and large have been greatly deceived by the Climate Change propaganda and the renewable energy junk industry that has created far more problems than it has solved and at such great expense. This is what happens when there is zero to light touch regulation and when concerns raised long ago about the flawed energy policy were given at best a scant regard.Carmel McCormacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-82837647220422829662021-12-26T09:21:13.727+00:002021-12-26T09:21:13.727+00:00Natural gas prices are currently more than ten tim...Natural gas prices are currently more than ten times more expensive in Europe than in the US where cheap and abundant shale gas is keeping prices low. Ireland has never allowed fracking and now all gas and oil exploration is banned. The consequence of this policy was never outlined to the public. Only the perceived upsides of a ban were communicated. We are now paying the price. The Corrib field could have lasted longer if we had restricted data centres. The kinsale field lasted for over 3 decades. Irish Energy https://www.blogger.com/profile/16354100971015557625noreply@blogger.com