Adrian wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 5:11 pm
@ Naimaste,
The country is governed by donkeys & spin merchants. They can’t even sort out a health system which has been struggling for decades.
There’s been report after report written up highlighting the fact that Moffat is a point of vulnerability.
Jack s*** has been done about it for yonks.
WRT the strategic reserve of oil, yeah they built Whiddy Island, but only some of Ireland’s oil is stored there. The oil reserves are stored in different terminals around Europe. Geographic diversity. Ireland’s oil (strategic reserve) would have to be shipped in from other terminals.
But having oil is one thing. You have to burn the fuel oil in a power station to make electricty. There’s very few fuel oil burning power stations left, Poolbeg’s gone, I think Great Island is gone and not sure about Tarbert.
Anyway they are all too small / too old to provide enough power.
I believe there is a requirement for the more modern power stations to have duel fuel capability, burn gas or diesel oil, but fuel oil is not the same as diesel oil.
But I doubt if there’s enough diesel oil in the country to keep a modern power station going for long. For a modern 435 MW CCGT on diesel oil you’d be looking at 70-75m3 per hour.
A road tanker carries about 40 cubes, so you’d want two road tankers per hour to stay online at full capacity.
Multiply that across several stations, throw in travelling times, tanker filling times and any traffic snarl ups and it starts to get complicated very quickly.
It just annoys me at how vulnerable Ireland’s power situation actually is, yet there’s no shortage of politicians mouthing off on Twitter or boasting to foreign ambassadors at how many levers they can employ against the Brits.
Stones & glasshouses et cetra.