80% of the public support on-shore wind farms apparently
Survey source: a windfarm business
You would want to educate yourself where alot of the power coming via interconnectors into this country originates( and likely to increase further via that new French project in Cork). Also on the toxic rare earth mining industry that is a key supplier to wind developers
You assume you know more than someone else on the internet, always a dangerous game to play.
Nobody knows what generates the electricity that comes from the interconnects. It could be any of the sources in the UK including nuclear, very hard to tell which one is which on a cable. The France interconnect will be the same.
Which again reinforces the point of not putting nuclear into Ireland because we already have access to it. France and UK are significantly bigger than Ireland as I expect you are aware. You could put Ireland 6.5 times into France, nearly 3 Ireland into mainland UK
So a nuclear disaster would have an impact but they have the land to cater, as I pointed out in Ireland we don't.
In terms of items required for wind turbines. Yes Im sure it needs some componets but then again the turbines last 20 years at least and then a lot of the features can be reused. So for the investment in CO2 to get those items does it far outweight trying to generate electricity using other forms?
I don't expect you to answer that question, you have failed numerous times already
Nuclear power is just a lousy power source. Grand when it works, but if you haven't made massive investments in alternatives you have a bad time when it let's you down, and it will let you down.
This is the link to French power production by type - https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energy-source
Please show us the last significant period when French exports weren't covered by other generators and imports. Hints : Today France is IMPORTING two Ireland's worth of power. Last year France's capacity factor for nuclear power was less than some offshore windfarms.
No one exports nuclear, NO ONE. It's another of the myths, like it being dependable or cheap.
UK nuclear ? It's likely they will only have one working nuclear power plant if Hinkley-C gets delayed again as the rest are due to close soon.
Here's how reliable they are https://web.archive.org/web/20230216094200/https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-station/daily-statuses 4 out of 9 reactors in service. Of those four only two (out of 9) were on nominal full load. Two were reducing load prior to refuelling / addressing a steam leak.
UK nuclear output was 5.72GW on 31/12/2022 , on 17/2/2023 it was 2.07 GW - 2/3rd's of the power missing.
This is the last 3 years of German nuclear power output. Lots of unseasonal dips. And the Germans still hold most of the records for the most MWh from individual reactors.
Japan lost 4 reactors to a tsunami and 40 to poor design and maintenance as only 10 were judged safe enough to restart in the dozen years since.
"Do Not Count Your Chickens Before They Are Hatched" - Aesop on the abandonment rate, delays and cost overruns on nuclear power plant construction (600BC)
One community fighting back.
Germany is ploughing up farmland and villages to get at coal to keep the lights on despite plastering their land and sea with windfarms - enough said....
They aren't ploughing up villages. Just one. And all the original inhabitants left Lützerath 15 years ago.
Thanks to Germany doubling down on renewables they are now shutting down coal EIGHT YEARS EARLIER than previously planned. That's a win as climate change is a greater threat to birds.
Like ourselves Germany hasn't much in the way of offshore wind yet, that's when we really start displacing fossil fuel. It's still early days.
We can't keep going with fossil fuel, and nuclear is fossil fuel by the back door because of the timescale and failure rates and capital tied up.
Thanks to the Base Load Review Act electricity consumers in South Carolina had an average of $27.03 added to each bill to cover the costs of an abandoned "modular construction" nuclear power plant. (There is nothing new under the sun, most of the "nu" in nuclear has already been tried and failed but they still keep dipping it in glitter) The cost of the plant was more than South Carolina's annual budget. If you keep suggesting that nuclear is an option I will keep reminding you of how often it has turned out to be a money pit. And how every time they've promised that "this time it will be different" is just a pack of lies.
Nuclear is simply not a viable power source, unless you have money to burn AND have the sort of backup and resilience that would allow renewables to deliver the power at a fraction of the cost and deliver power from shortly after the projects start rather than the "All or Nothing" of nuclear.
That's bollox, you're either deliberately exaggerating or are just uniformed on the subject.
We might not ever have a NPP, but I'd like to think that decision would be informed by suitability and science instead of drivel like this.
Thanks for the insightful response, would you have any actual information to provide on the subject? or you restricted to posting "drivel" like this post?
I would have thought Germany ditched Nuclear in favour of cheap Russian gas.
Germany ditched nuclear because of the safety concerns.
History available here
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-germanys-nuclear-phase-out
Thats just not true
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-fires-up-extra-coal-power-capacity-plug-winter-supplies-2022-11-02/
You may have missed this. In the exact same cabinet meeting they agreed to shutdown coal plants by 2030 instead of the planned 2038
You are obsessed with woke!
Your last few posts have mentioned woke with regards to wind farms which is…….well nuts!
We need wind farms built.
We also need NG storage built for when there is no wind.
We would also be on the right track if we developed barryroe/engaged in further exploration, to bolster our fossil fuel supply that we will need to produce electricity when the wind generators aren’t generating due to lack of wind, this would also take us off our dependence on a non eu country for gas.
We should also nationalise all energy generation so that any profits can be reinvested in infrastructure and social services.
This should be the four point plan to energy success.
I'm forever woke to the core
Not even the lads who own it have any plans to extract gas from Barryroe. The volume is just to small to be viable versus the costs. They are only interested in the oil
Link? (Shouldn’t be hard for yous)
We've done this ring-a-rosy many times. I've provided them about a half dozen times to you now at this stage across several threads everytime you bring up Barryroe, just can't be arsed doing it anymore so I'll give you the same answer as the last time, go look at their shareholder reports on their site, its all there
sounds like the stock answer from yous alright.
I was at Brittas Bay yesterday, had a lovely stroll. Spotted a handful of wind turbines off the coast, the Arklow Bank ones. Looked well, churning away generating power. They'll soon be a regular site off loads more of the coast
Renewables have reduced the UKs dependency on gas for electricity generation by 35%. Tangible benefit.
The next Electricity Consumption and Renewable Generation in Northern Ireland publication will be issued on Thursday 9 March 2023.
"For the 12 month period October 2021 to September 2022, 49.3% of total electricity consumption in Northern Ireland was generated from renewable sources located in Northern Ireland."
That's without counting interconnectors and they don't have much in the way of solar or tidal or offshore wind or geothermal, yet.
That's Arklow - I'll happily eat my words if they are ever built off the immediate coastline of Dublin city.
They planned to shut down alot of these coal plants alot earlier then that - but then reality got in the way. Easy for politicians to push such fantasies out into the distant future when it will be someone else problem to be quietly forgotten🙄
It’s great that you’re so happy that private companies will be making so much money off the Irish consumer. Good for you. 🤨
It's not just that wind farms use concrete - they use absolutely stupid amounts of it.
https://environmentalprogress.org/complete-case-for-nuclear
In order to generate a Tw/H of power from wind farms, you have to use eye-wateringly absurd amounts of raw materials, industrialise the landscape on a scale almost unprecedented in human history, and pose a danger to wildlife (bats, large birds etc) that is beyond frightening. And all you get for that, all you get is a small, unreliable supply of very expensive electricity.
And let's face it, if this video below was taken at an oil rig or a nuclear plant, all the Green morons would be repeating it everywhere in advertisements and propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NAAzBArYdw
So yes, I would 100% oppose any of these monstrosities near me. Let the morons who think they're a good idea have them next door. I want nothing to do with them.
To those who support them, it has nothing to do with climate, and has everything to do with virtue signalling the green hysteria. Windfarms are a great visual symbol for getting a pat on the head from europe.
The Cabinet has approved plans to accelerate delivery of 5 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030
Onshore is supposed to double to 9GW by 2030. I think you're right about the 7GW though but I've no detail about the missing 2GW. Some projects delayed perhaps?
I'm assuming that very little of 5gw is going to be floating wind turbines ,it's just not there yet ,
and while getting on the waiting list for offshore turbines and the construction ships is a delay ,
Getting permission to connect to the grid and a foreshore license is the biggest headache , without that you can't even get on the list ,
And a lot of that is going to be held back by the onshore grid , we don't have the power lines to handle an extra 5 to 7 gw of electricity, and getting permission for those won't be quick and easy
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