It will be a nice way for France to send us electricity generated by nuclear power while Eamonn vetoes the use of nuclear power here.
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@StoneCold 010322 " what if the wind doesnt blow, Oireland will be in the dark, we need to extract fossil fuels"
@StoneCold 240522 " why would we need an interconnector to France"
but yes, we will be sending energy back
Eamon put it well when he said that it takes 10 years to build baths in Kingstown, what chance have we of getting a nuclear power plant built
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He is probably right about that.
Yes, why bother with any long term infastructure projects
eh, we have renewables & a fancy schmanzy new interconnector with France
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I don’t see a need. We’re already connected to the UK and the UK are connected to France.
the brits arent to be trusted mate
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You couldn’t rely on them for energy security if there was a trade war with Europe.
Hup out that. More wind we get we can sell, if its not windy we dont have too much stress on the baseload. A very good move
Incorrect mate; I maintained an island nation like ourselves should be pioneering tidal energy for our long term energy needs.
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The answer for our energy needs is to go local with distributed networks instead of centralised “baseload” power.
It amazes me that biogas is not seen as the answer everywhere. It solves huge problems such as landfill and effluent run off alongside dramatically reducing manu climate changing gases such as methane. Every town should have one of these plants
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I visited one of the first ones in Oz at a landfill in Tasmania. That tech has been around since the Germans European excursions. They actually developed it around then. Which would have you even more stumped as to how it isn’t prevalent everywhere if around that long.
Biogas is a great way forward as i have said here previously there is potential for it in Ireland. Win win for the agricultural sector if we can get some sort of snall scale or coop to work out how to process it etc.
I remember a Tomorrow’s World in the 80’s visiting a German landfill with methane powering a Challenger tank engine to produce electricity and thinking how simple and brilliant a solution it was.
The fossil fuel companies have no doubt knobbled it along the way.
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They’ve nobbled everything.
I actually think small scale fission reactors have a major enough role until fusion happens, which may, for once, not be 50 years away.
the first electric cars were built in the 1890s but big oil made the ice car no 1
Correct big oil killed the electric car for years. Its a disgrace up there with the cotton industry vilifying hemp as an evil plant
The biggest problem is the an taisce loons will object to it. Think they’ve objected to one in Galway already