"Green" policies are destroying this country

Shocker: Wind industry sends out a press release every time wind blows.

As you can see demand follows a daily cyclical pattern, random energy output is not in sync with that demand and electricity can only be consumed as it is generated.

When there is no wind, the gas suppliers need to refill their tanks once the gas has been used, all you did was introduce a time delay. Wind industry press release remains silent about their dependency on gas and coal and the range of efficiency of their devices.

So even more attack the poster Akraisia? Really classy.

And yes you have a habit of deleting the crao you regularly throw at other posters. What's new.

I could just as easily throw the same shite about your comments being consistently "boring and repetitive" "your whining", "boring comments" "too boring to respond to"and god forbid that anyone should ask a question of your pronouncements

As for this

"A normal person would hold their hands up, apologise for spreading lies on the internet, and then we'd be able to forget it and move on."

Seriously do you read any of the shite you write? Or even reflect on your apparent constant and daily need to start arguments and fights because you don't agree with what others say?

The best thing Akrasia might be that you go argue with yourself, because No one is biting

It would be best for the rest of the posters who actually want to engage in discussion in this thread. I'll leave you at it.

21.7m

Lol.

So your suggesting Akrasia is Mr Kettle? Well I guess from your comment- that makes you Mr Pot

Another quality comment DaCor?

Low head/high flow solutions exist too, they only need 2 or 3 m of head. I know of several sites round here, including one which is a deserted water mill, that could provide community power to the grid. Most hydro is sited in mountains away from population centres, there is good potential in Ireland for hydro.

The limits and viability of those technologies have already been outlined in this thread. You cannot build a cost effective and stable electrical grid with them at scale and as more of them are added piecemeal the overhead becomes much more expensive to maintain grid stability and control costs.

So why is the wholesale price for electricity cheaper on windy days?

A 20m+ head is incredibly ridiculously rare in this country for any streams with any kind of volume, even something as "low" as 6 litres per sec.

Not a viable solution nationwide at all - theres a reason even the greens havent included it in their manifesto

90% of low head/high flow sites would be large rivers with delicate ecology - damming is very harmful to the ecology.

Also even with a low head high flow most "suitable" sites would only be providing power in the order of low kWs. Grid scale hydro has been exhausted in this country already, pumped storage is the only hydro scheme still worth doing.

Batteries are not more expensive than keeping gas turbines on standby burning fuel and not generating any power to cover peaks in demand

And batteries are getting better and cheaper with every passing year, while gas is getting more expensive and less reliable

The same dismissive, attitude that makes the GP unpopular. Many many opportunities for medium scale hydro exist, all it needs is for some resources and a government that is open minded.

As far as I can see nothing proactive has been done since 1985, since then the technology has improved tremendously, I would have though the GP would at least have a policy of refreshing this map.

https://gis.seai.ie/hydro/

Batteries are not even close. There are only good for managing the imbalance between system demand and sudden drop in random energy output that might otherwise lead to a blackout (or load shedding), basically enough time to allow the diesel generator to come online or other generation source to ramp up.

So the government report is wrong and you are right?

Grand so. Glad you've cleared that up for us.

I've read the report (without your links btw) and you're still wrong.

I'll go with the government report on this one. Thanks all the same.

Btw thanks for the continued and completely daft soliloquy* from your imagination regarding the use of dictionaries etc.

*If that's too big a word. My bad :(

There is great hydro potential in Ireland as I stated earlier, its just needs resources and a knowledgeable voice, neither of which exist in government today.

I remember when the GP candidate came round canvasing, they thought there were on a winner when they saw all my solar and the batteries etc. I listened to them, but they knew nothing about RE technologies or the rural life, they just wanted a political career.

I really think the GP are a danger to this country, they are occupying a position in politics that blocks entry for a real party with real solutions. Its like the Dubai LED lamps, no mention of them, a simple proven no cost solution. just legislate and instant savings countrywide, real savings not just from power saving, but the fact that they last a lifetime. We could have been chipping away at this problem for years, but the GP are side-tracked by looking for the big win, all for bans without presenting viable alternatives.