asitis Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 10 minutes ago, Happier diner said: The plan says power station gone by 2030 But will it be paid for by 2030 ? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambon Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 23 minutes ago, Happier diner said: Maybe. But not after the second interconnector. The plan says power station gone by 2030 Will it? Wont it? We don't know, but that's the plan My prediction? It will still be in use, along with many other gas turbines, in 2040. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 2 hours ago, Cambon said: Agreed, but biomass is better than fossil. There are answers, but governments wont listen biomass is just very young fossil fuel anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 39 minutes ago, asitis said: But will it be paid for by 2030 ? No chance 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 25 minutes ago, Cambon said: My prediction? It will still be in use, along with many other gas turbines, in 2040. It'll need some serious money spending on it if it is. They don't come cheap maintenance wise and you needs lots of staff to run it. You might end up wishing you had the white elephants. They are far cheaper to maintain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercenary Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 2 hours ago, Happier diner said: The plan says power station gone by 2030 One window pane at a time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah 01 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 10 hours ago, cissolt said: Government keep telling us that hard decisions need to be made .....like how to get rid of them. This Island is running at a massive democratic deficit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 5 minutes ago, Mercenary said: One window pane at a time that might be the white elephant in Peel ! but Douglas will still be here in 20 years time even if its to provide back up , this Island just could not generate the cash to provide everything in some politicians wish lists , if they are not careful they will bankrupt us , 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two-lane Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 2 hours ago, Happier diner said: The plan says power station gone by 2030 Will it? Wont it? We don't know, but that's the plan If they have a plan to shut down the power station, presumably they have a plan to do something with the site. Or would that be a plan too far? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeCurious Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 23 hours ago, Happier diner said: That's not nothing is it? What's the reservoir for? Water.... we seem to run out of it every summer and if weather is getting warmer/drier then it#d be prudent to expand storage capacity before we get 100k + TT population Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forestboy Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 3 minutes ago, CallMeCurious said: Water.... we seem to run out of it every summer and if weather is getting warmer/drier then it#d be prudent to expand storage capacity before we get 100k + TT population There will never be a 100k population or anything near it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeCurious Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 3 hours ago, WTF said: biomass is just very young fossil fuel anyway. and takes land to grow and energy to harvest it. IOM requires 362GW/h* 1GWh requires 118 acres of woodland per year. So say 25% was biomass generation that would be 118/4 x 362 acres per year. That is 10,000 acres of wood to be harvested per year. Willow which is a SRC (short rotation crop) takes 2-3 years to mature to a useable size so say you have a 3 year cycle that would be 30,000 acres total. 10,000 acres is rougly 15 sq. miles so 45 square miles of dense machine harvestable willow forest. The IOM is approx. 220 sq. miles. So about 20% of the land would provide 25% of electricity generation. And once you've got a 3 year cycle running then it becomes carbon neutral by taking up as much CO2 as it takes up more or less. Guess that would mean foresting the northern plain and praying that a monoculture crop doesn't eventually succumb to disease, pests, fire,drought or deteriorating soil conditions *Before we convert all vehicles with EV, repalce all IC boilers with heat pumps and gas fires/ovens/hobs with electric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeCurious Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 12 minutes ago, forestboy said: There will never be a 100k population or anything near it. Apart from 2 weeks in June 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 1 hour ago, CallMeCurious said: Water.... we seem to run out of it every summer and if weather is getting warmer/drier then it#d be prudent to expand storage capacity before we get 100k + TT population We have never run out of water have we? Not even close. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeCurious Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 11 hours ago, Happier diner said: We have never run out of water have we? Not even close. I must have imagined the sacharine MUA ads on MR about we only have so much water.... as if it doesn't come in in bottles by the truckload every day. And the almost yearly hosepipe bans are also a phantom of my imagination too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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