On 11/12/12 21:45, Andy Champ wrote:
On 11/12/2012 20:24, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
Still got a couple of peat-fired stations (which the EU don't like at
all, at all), got some oil and gas burners too. There's 20 minutes of
stored power in a pumped hydro and some actual hydro on the Shannon.

www.spiritofireland.org is slowly gathering momentum and before the
**** hits the fan big time, might actually get somewhere.
TNP notwithstanding, there are massive areas on the western seaboard
where the wind doth blow and the water could flow - all we need to do
is kill off the nimbys.

Trouble is the wind bloweth not all the time. And you need another
system you can turn on when there isn't any wind.

Andy
And then you realise you have simply duplicated the capacity and doubled
the capital cost, and the amount of fuel you save by running the CCGT in
whore's drawers mode, which negates any fuel reduction you might have
got, destroys the profitability of the gas stations as well, trebles
their maintenance cost and halves their lifetimes, and makes you utterly
dependent on imported gas.

Sounds like a plan...that Dougal might have dreamed up in a father Ted
episode.

http://www.templar.co.uk/downloads/R...imitations.pdf


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