But there was a power surge in UK too, they have the same weather as us and also no wind power then. They barely managed to get enough power through it to cope, it was alot more serious than was reported because if another small generating supply was knocked out then we were into power outages. When you start running power stations at full capacity to crank up supply the higher the likelihood of problems, Oh and the battery backups that are widely touted as storage for wind energy are depleted in a few minutes if fully drawn. Only the RTE website reported it, it did not make the 9 O clock news or newspaper headlinesThat’s why there is the interconnector and why there’s another in the pipeline.
Time to consider nuclear?
At least 15 years ago I attended a public meeting in the RDS on nuclear power for Ireland. This particular point on low temperatures and no wind was highlighted. One of the speakers pointed out that Ireland is susceptible to periods of high atmospheric pressure and low temperatures, typically in January. So on a night without clouds it's cold, very cold, but there is no wind, or what little wind there is flows out of the area of high pressure. There is not enough wind at these times to generate sufficient electricity.Very little media focus on this strangely but Eirgrid almost had a power outage last week due to insufficient power on the grid. There was a surge in power demand due to the very cold weather there was no wind power and Moneypoint and Whitegate powerstations were offline due to technical problems. They barely got away with it due to just about getting enough power in through the interconnectors from the UK.
The real crisis is Climate Change.
It's not a crisis. Covid is a crisis.
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Climate change is moving very slowly. If thermometers didn't exist you wouldn't notice the difference over the course of a human lifetime. "Tell that to the people of Sub-sahara Africa and coastal parts of Asia, never min d the Bahama's and other low-lying islands threatened with utter destruction."
The response to climate change needs big, structural changes to everything we do. But the apocalyptic tone of the activists is completely misplaced.
In any event, what is totally missed are the huge economic potentials thru a Green economy, Climate technologies and decarbonization.
Spending vastly more money to make even less power is not 'economic potential'.
If you think decarbonisation in decadal timeframes is necessary, fair enough. It's a legitimate point of view. But don't pretend it will not make us significantly poorer.
I'll take poorer and sustainable over short-term and unsustainable consumerism and the costs thereof. These costs, which will mount will mostly be borne by future generations. It beholds us, as the last generation that can stop cataclysmic environmental damage, to prevent it. But in any event, i think the argument that tackling climate change will make us poorer is not supported by evidence.Spending vastly more money to make even less power is not 'economic potential'.
If you think decarbonisation in decadal timeframes is necessary, fair enough. It's a legitimate point of view. But don't pretend it will not make us significantly poorer.
it looks like the power station in shannonbridge Co Offaly only shut 2 days ago so was actually operational when we almost ran out of power last week, so it could have been critical without that power station on the grid.Peat stations should never be reopened. That period is over.
Spending vastly more money to make even less power is not 'economic potential'.
If you think decarbonisation in decadal timeframes is necessary, fair enough. It's a legitimate point of view. But don't pretend it will not make us significantly poorer.
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