Nuclear - future for Ireland?

That I know, the question I'm asking is that a few people have been bombarding this thread with anti renewable propaganda for years could have spent a bit of time discussing routes and options for building a Euro compliant and fuelled 400 - 440 reactor NPP.

Mochovce 3 and 4 are recent / under construction.

Paks and Temelin are 1000 or greater but of they were a small island they may have considered a smaller size.

Dokuvany all reactors upgraded recently and within the EU.

So I hope you see my non-technical point. That I would appreciate less anti renewable propaganda and would have appreciated a constructive debate, even if the outcome was that a 440 reactor isn't possible.

I know. And it's one less barrier to keeping them / building them.

But yet we have lots of data centre here

electricity price isn’t why they’ locate data centres where they do.

They are looking at 5GW. Which is higher our system load for about 12 hours a day.

We simply couldn’t accommodate that level nor should we.

Can you imagine what would happen if we built an additional 5GW and the AI bubble burst….

Sure we have 9GW of renewables! And gonna build 50GW more according to plan that will cost us hundreds of billions

Oh that’s right most of the time they produce **** all and we have to burn gas /s

currently pulling out 5.3KW… you might want to check your panels.

It’s overcast and pouring rain lol 😂

It’s also very rarely that famously sunny Ireland is sunny

Which is how you endup with a crappy 10% capacity factor that’s 9.5x smaller than nuclear

Which is why we are burning gas yet again right now

Which leads to Europes most expensive electricity and at the time of this post 4th most dirtiest in Europe

They make economic sense because the externality of having to burn gas as backup most of the time has been dumped on the taxpayers and consumers who have been conditioned to pay the most expensive electricity in Europe and not question why we remain one of the dirtiest

just like coal plants used to dump the externalities of their massive co2 emissions onto the environment

Solar PV is nothing short of a miracle.

Oil, gas and coal are from solar. Photosynthesis, growth and billions of years compaction or digestion into methane. Short circuiting this process within a century or so of inventing electricity is phenomenal.

Nuclear is finite. And with its 2:1 heat to electricity emissions it may become unacceptable in future, to be generating 2 GW heat for every GWe.

Before the so called liberalization of electricity we had one of the cheapest electricity charges in Europe. We are now consistently in the top three most expensive, and I don`t see how that is just due to us having a dispersed population.

According to the 1996 & 2022 censuses, in 1996 those listed under Clustered/Urban Population represented 58.1% of the population. (2.11 million). By 2022 this had risen to 63.9% (3.29 Million) an increase of 1.18 million and a 5.8% increase compared to 1996.

Those listed as Dispersed/Rural Population in 1996 made up 41.9% of the population (1.51million). In 2022 it was 36.1% (1.86 million) an increase of 0.35 million but overall a decrease of 5.8%

Build them without contracting Russia and don't give them a penny for construction or fuel. It's the soviet way, they'll respect it 😬

When I see a report from research groups especially, I always find it interesting to follow the money.

There called photovoltaic panel they don’t need direct sunlight to work. Do your eyes need direct sunlight to work.