Energy infrastructure

If you want to know why we are running thermal power generators at the moment (even with the strong gales) then I recommend reading chapter 4 of this report from EirGrid (https://www.eirgridgroup.com/site-files/library/EirGrid/Full-Technical-Report-on-Shaping-Our-Electricity-Future.pdf)

It talks through the operational metrics that EirGrid use for running a reliable and high-quality electricity grid. Effectively we artifically limit ourselves to 70% supply from wind turbines (and solar) at any one time. We must have a certain number of thermal power plants running (particularly close to major load centres in the cities) to handle unexpected network events like a gas turbine tripping and going offline.

It's a long read but it will give you all of the juicy details for how EirGrid have so far set records for the most amount of non-synchronous renewables connected to a major grid.

South Australia likely hold the record.

"South Australia set an impressive new renewable energy record in the final days of 2021, with the state’s solar and wind farms and rooftop solar systems supplying an average of just over 100% of local demand every day for a period of almost one week.

The unprecedented uninterrupted stretch of 100%-plus renewable energy output in South Australia was documented by data analyst Geoff Eldridge at NEMlog. Eldridge confirms that the state’s renewables share averaged slightly over 100% of demand (101%) for a period of 156 hours, or 6.5 days, ending on Wednesday December 29."

China make support colums for a lot of the wind turbines the EU and greens are so fond of.

"China to build Europe’s biggest onshore wind park in Ukraine"

Don't forget the Australian Iron ore...

They get included with other metal waste, are shredded, and then start either small or serious fires in waste processing centres, which can no longer get insurance as a result.

There are more than enough vehicle batteries in need of recycling due to car accidents. Just ask the Norwegian insurance industry, which will tell you that EV's are involved in more crashes than ICE vehicles proportionally.

I watched a France24 program about a French specialist recycler and it was said that only 40% of EV car batteries are recycled, and frankly, I'm surpised it's that many considering how complex and expensive the whole process looked.

Lol.

Cnocbui, a MILL is a device that breaks solid matter into smaller particles by grinding or crushing. Look it up.

A mill powered by horses is called a horse mill, one powered by water - a watermill, one powered by wind - a windmill, etc. There are also: roller mills, gristmills, sawmills, etc. - all involve breaking solids into small particles.

A wind turbine is not, by any possible definition, a type of MILL.

And the reason it's called a turbine (not "something more like a type of airplane propellor") is because it extracts energy from the fluid flow. This has nothing to do the shape of the blades or whether they're enclosed.

So what - it was producing FA up until the middle of this month during most of the winter, hence the panic in government to get more gas power online ASAP. We actually really dodged a bullet this year with the winter being so mild. Its likely that the cooling phase of the Atlantic due to kick in over the coming years will make a bad situation worse in terms of the crazy developer led energy policies in this country.

Yup, and those poor developers won't get paid if the turbines don't spin ,

And if the turbines don't spin them they'll be shut down , and eventually they'll just be cut up and removed for scrap metal , leaving a concrete pad ,that'll be grown over in a few years , what shame ,

Or the wind will just keep blowing, more Batteries will be added allowing greater flexibility and predictability , allowing us to burn less gas , and smugly whizz quietly around in our electric cars...