The largest cable laying vessel in the World will arrive in Irish waters today.

LordSutch

"The ship will begin laying 100 kilometres of marine cable for the EirGrid Interconnector - the first ever between Ireland and Britain.

The Connector will install the electric cables deep into the Irish Sea" < TV3 News http://www.tv3.ie/article.php?article_id=71018&locID=1.2.&pagename=home

Hmm, wonder what practical difference this new cable will make?

Mr Benevolent

Finally.

Hmm, wonder what practical difference this new cable will make?

We can sell power or buy it in cheaper.

the groutch

are things that bad that we have to steal Wales' leccie?

FatherLen

zzzzzzzz

Dyr

LordSutch wrote: »

"The ship will begin laying 100 kilometres of marine cable for the EirGrid Interconnector - the first ever between Ireland and Britain.

The Connector will install the electric cables deep into the Irish Sea" < TV3 News http://www.tv3.ie/article.php?article_id=71018&locID=1.2.&pagename=home

Hmm, wonder what practical difference this new cable will make?

that dinky little barge in the link is the worlds largest cable laying ship?

funk-you

Laying cable...hehehe.

-Funk

Barna77

Watch out for icebergs. It's been cold lately

Now in 3D!

I_smell_fear

Barna77 wrote: »

Watch out for icebergs. It's been cold lately

Now in 3D!

What??!

Mickey Dazzler

There has already been allot of cable laid in the irish sea. Place is filthy.

chin_grin

I_smell_fear wrote: »

What??!

That movie about the unsinkable ship that sank that was based on that thing that happened a hundred years ago. I think it was called The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down.

Captain Darling

Flutterinbantam would have loved this thread.

LordSutch

Bambi wrote: »

that dinky little barge in the link is the worlds largest cable laying ship?

I know, its looks like a small tug, but TV3 says . . .

connundrum

I_smell_fear wrote: »

What??!

We'd a good week back in March, and it has been cold since.

Pffft. Get with the picture.

I, for one, hope that the Summer will be decent.

fred funk }{

The attempt at humour in this thread is shocking.

Thundercats Ho

It'll be like an umbilical cord over to Britain.....

Lando Griffin

Giving England enough lekky to power 300000 houses?
Gets placard and celtic jersey....

ejmaztec

fred funk }{ wrote: »

The attempt at humour in this thread is shocking.

I quite agree, people should treat current affairs more seriously.

Rabies

LordSutch wrote: »

"The ship will begin laying 100 kilometres of marine cable for the EirGrid Interconnector - the first ever between Ireland and Britain.

The Connector will install the electric cables deep into the Irish Sea" < TV3 News http://www.tv3.ie/article.php?article_id=71018&locID=1.2.&pagename=home

Hmm, wonder what practical difference this new cable will make?

This what it really looks like
http://worldmaritimenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Norway-GMC-Yard-to-Modify-AMC-Connector.jpg

This the picture on the TV3 website
http://content.tv3.ie/content/images/0307/eirgrid_77565.jpg

beazee

Which project stage is that?

East–West Interconnector
Rush North Beach, Co. Dublin -> Shotton, North Wales (261 km, 500 MW)

or

EW 1 East–West Interconnector
Arklow, Co. Wicklow -> Pentir, North Wales (135 km, 350MW)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Interconnector

Ben D Bus

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

It'll be like an umbilical cord over to Britain.....

I hope those shifty Brits don't start slowly winding it in after we're connected. We could wake up some morning and find we've physically rejoined the Union :eek:

Doc Ruby

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Giving England enough lekky to power 300000 houses?
Gets placard and celtic jersey....

Selling, the key word is selling.

This is part of the European(see that word sutch) supergrid project whereby all of Europe will be part of one huge grid of HVDC cables, that's cables which lose very little energy over distance. There are already a few of them connecting the UK with the mainland and across Northern waters.

Practical upshot is we can buy in electricity from the Sahara if we like (once those cables are done), or sell it from our own wind turbines, or indeed store power from our turbines in Norwegian mountains, making essentially gas and coal fired plants redundant, or it will do once there are enough of these cables and enough wind turbines.

Larbre34

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

It'll be like an umbilical cord over to Britain.....

I'll stick me howsurfather up it and turn it into the channel tunnel

Fratton Fred

Doc Ruby wrote: »

There are already a few of them connecting the UK with the mainland and across Northern waters.

NI - GB - Norway?

Doc Ruby

Fratton Fred wrote: »

NI - GB - Norway?

Dublin is in NI now? I see British education has done its work well.

This is a real picture of the ship by the by, the AMC Connector. And here.

R0ot

In before the DCC manage to somehow "cut" the line. :pac:

CreepingDeath

According to this EirGrid PDF, it looks like they're laying fibre optic cables to increase internet speeds too.

EirGrid PDF Link

Jesus Wept

Captain Darling wrote: »

Flutterinbantam would have loved this thread.

Is he not about?

deandean

Is there much copper in that cable boss?

youtube!

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Dublin is in NI now? I see British education has done its work well.

This is a real picture of the ship by the by, the AMC Connector. And here.

Seriously, WTF are TV3 up to showing a picture of a little tugboat, Jesus helps us if this counts as journalism:mad:

Pdfile

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

It'll be like an umbilical cord over to Britain.....

more like life support.

mikemac1

Mind that boat

The boyos in the site in Ringsend would strip that boat and steal the cable in seconds if you turned your back

Stiffler2

Great - Send Enda over quickly to pat down the tourists, maybe even hold them upside down to make sure they don't have the pennies sellotapes to their bodies.

Mr Benevolent

Andy Carroll wrote: »

Is he not about?

Permabanned.

ft9

Here is loads of photos of the ship. It is currently in Dublin, and you can track its location from the site in the link also.

Capt'n Midnight

No one's mentioned that the cable will be full of radioactive electricity from the UK nukes :P

Eric Cartman

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

No one's mentioned that the cable will be full of radioactive electricity from the UK nukes :P

shurrup :P the crustys havent thought of that yet, theyre still coming down from 4/20

Ben D Bus

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

No one's mentioned that the cable will be full of radioactive electricity from the UK nukes :P

Nah, it has a special electron filter to weed out the glow-in-the-dark ones.

Owen_S

Entered this thread expecting an article about Ron Jeremy visiting Ireland

Left disappointed.

Capt'n Midnight

Ben D Bus wrote: »

Nah, it has a special electron filter to weed out the glow-in-the-dark ones.

I though they were still beta testing that :pac:

Paparazzo

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

No one's mentioned that the cable will be full of radioactive electricity from the UK nukes :P

That sounds like a Kraftwerk album

44leto

We already are interconnected through northern Ireland but this cable will be the ESBs.

So seen we are already interconnected this cable wont make that much difference to the consumer, but it will to the ESBs profits.

lividduck

44leto wrote: »

We already are interconnected through northern Ireland but this cable will be the ESBs.

So seen we are already interconnected this cable wont make that much difference to the consumer, but it will to the ESBs profits.

This cable has absolutley nothing to do with the ESB. The cable will belong to Eirgrid a company wholly independent of ESB.

juan.kerr

I'm off to the jacks to lay a cable of my own...

Capt'n Midnight

Paparazzo wrote: »

That sounds like a Kraftwerk album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaScyfSHc-Y

"Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me"

questionmark?

So Ireland is getting nuclear power but yet Iran isn't allowed any! Typical :rolleyes:


*Insert mad mullah, anti-isreal, pro-israel, sinn fein, the thing that happended in japan, homer simpson jokes here*