Thatâs only looking at it from a stock market angle. I never had you down as a Wall Street type
It will take 50 years to pay back. The largest cost will be to service the loans over that period of time. I think the new one in Bristol is estimated to cost between ÂŁ16-20 billion
Some level of aspirations, good luck to them. Be very admirable if they could pull.it off:
The phased project at SA1 aims to deliver an electric battery manufacturing plant and battery storage facility, a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay and floating solar farm within it, a data storage centre, a green hydrogen production facility, an oceanic and climate change research centre, and hundreds of waterfront homes. It would take more than a decade to complete
Did we sell that 2.4% excess to the French mate? Were they ready for it?
the brits are doing great at renewables in fairness to them
as more and more wind generation comes on line over the next few years we will be a net exporter of energy
I visited a number of solar farms in the UK recently. Impressive facilities but very much unwanted by local residents or anyone overlooking them.
The efficiency is low enough, the cost is high, but the sell-in tariff makes it viable, at scale.
Theyâll be popping up here soon enough.
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Theres one going up near me. Looking forward to seeing it. Its unused farmland at the moment, not even cattle or silage a waste for years
Didnât they want to do a tidal thingingmebobob yoke in the Shannon estuary?
No idea tbh but thatâs some scale of a project the Welsh lads are gearing for.
This is a mad yoke altogether, itâs like damning the tide. Building a big massive man made reservoir in the middle of the bay. The environmentalists would be up in arms about the snails or something
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Portugal seem to be doing very well in renewables. 94 per cent of their power.
Could we not use in-pipe hydropower or done class of controlled hydro to tide (
) us over when wind ainât shaking the barley.
The Greens in Ireland seem woefully short on innovation and blue sky thinking.
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-wpi/wholesalepriceindexnovember2022/
Wholesale electricity prices decreased by 30.1% in the 12 months to November 2022
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0117/1349145-cso-inflation-figures/
The CSO said that electricity prices were up 62.7% on an annual basis
Logic.
The purchase price of electricity is down 30% on the year. The retail price of electricity sold is up 62% on the year. Cunts.
Granted, its not as simple as that, as the companies bought at higher prices and have âstockâ but even so, those figures are a fairly stark contrast.
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we are increasing SUN & Wind renewables hugely over the next few years - it takes time to scale up & until the Greens got into Government there was little movement
we will be getting power from France when renewables dont provide enough
Ireland targets 80% renewables | GridBeyond
the one target we will meet is energy & with retrofits, people will need less energy,
retrofits will never happen because we dont have the workers? oh really @TheUlteriorMotive
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Our immersion broke just after our last bill came in. I thought I would have to sell a kidney when I saw the last bill amount. A record high. It was an estimated read so when I did the calculations it was estimated to the tune of 77 euro in their favour. Anyways, I didnât fix the immersion and with latest bill just in and factoring in the 77 paid, the bill is halved. By comparison to Christmas '21 todayâs bill is 100 euros less even.
I wonât be fixing the immersion yet.
Iâm the forums leading exponent of this Ffs sake
yes, im glad i delegated to you
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