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How long till the lights go out?

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  • #32
    LibbyPhelan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭LibbyPhelan


    given all these new carbon taxes, not very long.


  • #33
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    LibbyPhelan wrote: »
    given all these new carbon taxes, not very long.

    given the late hour in which i find myself, not very long either. :pac:


  • #34
    cavedave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭cavedave


    Well if you had 54 thousand million to spend that would be a lot of wind power (1 million per megawatt "The total investment for a wind turbine averages €1.1 million per installed megawatt"). 54 gigawatts is a lot of power. You would have to set up a National Air Management Agency to sell it all.

    You could even spend it on solar water heaters and a few nuclear power stations as well as enough turbines to power the country many times over. Not that people would waste 54 billion on something like that though.


  • #35
    Bee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭Bee


    probe wrote: »
    The Economist has a number of articles on energy in this week's issue (print edition dated 8 to 14 August):

    "A free energy market needs more than one country" (interconnectivity)

    Britain's own supply of gas has been running down since 1999. The country has storage capacity for about one weeks supply of natural gas. (Most continental countries have 3 to 6 months gas storage). Half of Britain's electricity is generated from gas - and this will shortly reach 75%. Freezing cold in the dark (eg if Russia pulls the plug on Ukraine or whatever) - neither gas nor electricity to cook or heat the place during a supply crunch period.

    "Brown out; them come the brownouts"

    The full article: http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14167834

    A related article: http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14177328&source=hptextfeature

    Ireland's interconnector with Britain can't be relied on as a backup source of electricity for wind - it will probably be a one-way street exporting electricity... Meanwhile the www.corribsos.com gang delay Ireland's only new source of gas (which if/when it materialises will be a short term partial solution to the problem). There is no alternative to direct connectivity to the mainland European grid for Ireland.

    Don't panic we will import good clean Co2 less electrivity generated by Nulclear power plants in the UK


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