Nuclear - future for Ireland?

I gave you a figure, but all you seem to do in this thread is soapbox about how bad renewables are, nuclear is great, but you don't want to defend nuclear with anything rational or reasonable.

in all fairness you talk a lot of nonsense.

20-40% of 13.3 trillion euro up to 2050 (rest is on fuels like gas) to complete the Energiewende transition just for wind/solar/grid/batteries

2024 report https://www.pwc.de/en/private-equity/private-capital-for-financing-the-energy-transition-in-germany.html

Total French investment up to now on nuclear adjusted for inflation is 230 billion with 70 billion planned up to 2050 for modernisation

result is not a single day of year Germany has greener electricity than France and they are also much more expensive and hilariously enough heavily reliant on France

you are the one off by an order of magnitude

France spent hundreds of billions after readjusting for inflation while Germany spent trillions with a lot more to go while burning gas and being reliant on France

And still not greener or cheaper

Where have you given the total figure for

37GW offshore by 2050

+ 10 GW more onshore and solar that’s planed

+ Batteries for all this for zero gas backup and no blackouts

+ Interconnections needed to send the random overproduction and still have weeks where can’t fullfill demand with no wind

Link to the post please

if 33% capacity factor wind can’t meet our needs why would 40% be radically different? Let’s check what wind doing again on this nice sunny breezy morning

oh look at all that gas being burned again

that’s 18x co2 per kWh this morning compared to France!

I was banned for a week for posting much less than he has done, hard to have a discussion when it one set of rules for some and another set for others

And I did give him a heads up

I have provided plenty of facts and figures and references and graphs higher up the thread, the path we are being pushed down by the wind and gas lobby has already led electricity that is not co2 free like those countries and given us one of highest electricity prices (2nd right behind Germans) in Europe and world

As I said earlier to continue to double down on this is stupid especially when there is a cheaper and cleaner alternative as seen from other European countries every day in the data

I noticed you havent posted any figures or graphs or references to backup any assertions or claims

Where have you given the total figure for

37GW offshore by 2050

+ 10 GW more onshore and solar that’s planed

+ Batteries for all this for zero gas backup and no blackouts

+ Interconnections needed to send the random overproduction and still have weeks where can’t fullfill demand with no wind

Link to the post please

Perhaps you will like Breakfast in bed as well?

Anyway, I did a rough estimate here
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124404697/#Comment_124404697

Since you are spamming this thread with pro-nuclear talking points, perhaps you would be so kind as to tell us how much a nuclear power plant in Ireland would cost?
The fact that you are so evasive comes across as terribly insecure in your argument, and he can be seen a mile off.

As I said, if you showed me a way to implement nuclear that is realistic and cost-effective, I would agree with you. Im here to be convinced, but I fear your style is actually alienating your position.

if 33% capacity factor wind can’t meet our needs why would 40% be radically different? Let’s check what wind doing again on this nice sunny breezy morning

LOL, breezy..
You are trolling now.

That post does not include the costs of interconnectors nor BESS (I keep asking but you are unable to offer any figures) and would still leave us reliant on gas, I posted the figures for Germany which runs to 13 trillion only a few posts up and they already are well connected at center of Europe unlike us

And is already multiples of nuclear option given whether Koreans or even the new gen tech Finns and French recently added

The poster took offence with terminology that met.ie used and called me a troll for stating facts, which seem to shatter his incorrect world view that was build on clever marketing and lies

looks like we peaked at 1000MW solar, 100MW wind and 4500MW demand

That’s fairly terrible for 8 to 9GW of installed wind and solar

That’s a 100,000 MWh gap being filled by 11-12% imports and … gas for last 24 hours

That’s 66 Turlough Hills worth of storage would have been needed just for one day, Turlogh hill is half a billion inflation adjusted, so a cool 33 billion in storage needed just to cover one day to be co2 free

Nice 👌

Not much wind in UK either today, they importing 8GW at moment which is a quarter of their demand 🤯

https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

only a few posts up you have someone claiming an extra 2GW of offshore wind will solve all our problems

As per your own post and map there is not much wind at sea either, UK too

I even asked him to confirm that does he insist we will have cheaper and greener electricity then than nuclear powered European countries

You mean the oceans which are too difficult to develop due to "once in a hundred years" storms that come more regularly than that. Irish sea looks quite still.

Celtic sea enjoys force 10 and 11 storms. Engineer your way out of that.