sAVE oUR wALL
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Did you ever see as bland a design as it? Totally nondescript.
Totally in keeping with the area and city in general then.
The new thorium reactors should put this wind farm nonsense to bed…though we’ll still have the ideological types to deal with
While thorium reactors offer potential benefits like reduced waste and a larger fuel supply compared to traditional uranium reactors, they face challenges like complex reactor design, regulatory hurdles, and competition from established technologies, which have prevented their widespread commercialization.
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The Chinese are building three a week
Hopefully fusion is on the way.
Although I’ll hardly see it.
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The Germans are apparently decommissioning wind turbines as they are inefficient. They are, I have decided an utter blight on the landscape also, and should all be stuck out at sea or in the midlands.
A couple of thousand of them scattered around Laois would improve the aesthetic no end. It might also encourage the locals not to be staring at the ground all the time.
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Apparently? I mean, they either are or they aren’t?
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I’ve not seen it with my own eyes, my darlingest one told me, she had read it somewhere, so TFK fact, but apparently in the real world.
Yes, Germany is decommissioning some of its aging wind farms. Many of these wind farms are reaching the end of their operational lifespan, and new decommissioning requirements have been put in place by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). However, Germany is also focusing on “repowering,” which involves replacing older turbines with more powerful and efficient ones .
Meanwhile, China is significantly increasing its wind farm capacity. China continues to lead the world in wind energy development, with a record amount of wind power capacity under construction. In 2024 alone, China added almost twice as much utility-scale solar and wind power capacity as any other year, reaching a total of 758 GW .
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We’ll possibly need something more concrete here.
Councillors clash over future of Sandymount cycleway
Councillors representing the southeast of Dublin city have clashed over the future of the Strand Road cycleway in Sandymount, following last Friday’s court ruling which enabled its development.
The Court of Appeal overturned a High Court judgment that had blocked the implementation of the six-month trial of the path on the coastal road.
The High Court had ruled in 2021, in a case taken by Independent councillor Mannix Flynn and Peter Carvill of the Serpentine Avenue, Tritonville and Claremont Roads group, that the council should have obtained planning permission to run the trial.
The project, first proposed in August 2020, involved replacing a lane of traffic with a two-lane cycle path. This would result in a one-way traffic system with cars allowed to travel southbound only as far as the Merrion Gates, a distance of about 2.5km.
At a meeting of the council’s southeast area committee yesterday, newly co-opted Fine Gael councillor David Coffey put forward a motion that “all active travel measures for the Strand Road should be done in tandem with the Sandymount flood relief project with the aim of delivering an off-road cycleway”. Council officials had previously rejected this option, in part because the flood defence work will not be completed before 2030.
Cllr Coffey said he supported the work the council had done developing cycle infrastructure “where appropriate and in the right areas”. However, he said: “I do not support a one-way solution on the Strand Road.” The area was “gridlocked at the moment”.
Cllr Flynn said he hoped and had confidence “Dublin City Council won’t railroad this along”. There remained, he said, “opportunities to go to the Supreme Court” or to the European courts, but he said these were “situations I don’t particularly want to go down”. He added that it was “very immature for the Dublin Cycling Campaign to go out gloating on the day of the judgment down around Sandymount”. Cyclists gathered on Strand Road on Friday evening to celebrate the court decision.
Green Party councillor Carolyn Moore, said she found the motion “incredibly cynical” as incorporating cycling infrastructure into the flood works “would see it go back on the long finger for possibly the guts of a decade”, she said.
Claire French, senior executive engineer, said the council’s traffic and engineering department needed time to digest the judgment before coming back with further suggestions.
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This is only a trial i think too