Aidan Reilly

Irish people deserve answers Who's funding SF? Where does the money go? What assets & investments are held? Where are they held ? What other parties are involved if any ? What is SFs total income ? Why so Secretive? What are they hiding?

It is reported Emily boarded a flight to Paris so please share with any friends and family in France

I’m Nikopol, a city in Ukraine where the Russians are intensifying their attacks on civilians. The situation is getting worse every day. While the Kremlin tries to sanitise its image this week at Venice Biennale, It’s vital people see the war crimes they are committing

@BillyKelleherEU The big question is why has Ireland almost completely ignored biomass during the last 25 years?

For those that doubt. Denmark has made enormous strides in weaning itself off fossil fuel dependency. A population similar to ours, they harnessed wind/sun and developed biomethane to replace fossil gas. Let’s use science, engineering economics and environment, not ideology!!!

Episode 1 is now available free at open.spotify.com/episode/4v2PhP… and also on Apple Podcasts Thanks to Dr Ken McDonagh from @ucddublin for contributing to “Who Is Responsible? Ireland’s National Security Decision-Making System". #Security #military #policing

@Jordan_W_Taylor Very true, but it's also a 30 million acres buffer of crop that can be diverted to food production if required in the event of unforeseen circumstances, allows time for alternatives to come on stream. ifpri.org/blog/the-iran-…

Biofuels are tempting net-zero drop-ins for existing fuel systems, but we shouldn't expect too much: The USA uses 10% of its vast crop land area to produce ethanol for 10% of its gasoline. 30 million acres for ethanol! This only supplants 1 or 2 percent of total primary energy.

Delighted to launch #StandEasy, Ireland’s new #defence & #security #podcast. Episode 1 drops Friday morning — links coming soon.

Irish people spend less than 10% of their household expenditure on groceries. Among Europeans, only those in Ireland and Luxembourg spend so little of their income on food & non-alcoholic drinks, leaving 90% of funds available to cover everything else 🇮🇪 ec.europa.eu/eurostat/stati…

I had intended to mark this anniversary- I am a few days late. Remembering Lyra McKee, murdered on 18 April 2019. A voice for truth, for equality, for peace, for a better future — silenced, but never lost. The futility of her killing is another indication of the fragility of peace. Her murder again highlights that we must unite people fist and by respecting differences and diversity.

@XEnergyIreland Has that resulted in approximately€35 million being paid out in March?

🛑Wasted Wind Record: Eirgrid released their monthly dispatch down figures for March 2026. Wind saw a record high of 348GWh dispatched down (242GWh in R.O.I and 106GWh in N.I.) A new record high of 19GWh of solar occured (mostly curtailment not grid constraint) For context, Turlough Hill can store 1.6GWh of energy

From computing to space, Britain has an odd habit of innovating its way to the pinnacle of some developing field or other, only to get white line fever and pass the ball to someone else to score the winning try. Usually an American. It's happened so many times it's almost a running joke, and yet every now and then some company or genius pops up, hands the country a winning lotto ticket and asks if it wants to cash it in. Right now, the holder of the ticket is the global engineering company Rolls-Royce, which has just handed the government an absolute no-brainer of a decision… For you see, Rolls-Royce just developed a revolutionary nuclear power plant. It's not revolutionary because it's a fast reactor, or cooled by helium, or runs on thorium or anything fancy like that. It's revolutionary because it's designed to be easy to make, which is a common failing of nuclear plants. It's small-ish at 470 Megawatts, or half the size of a normal plant, but can fit in a tiny fraction of the footprint, is made of standardised easy-fit modular parts, all road transportable and is designed to be almost entirely factory manufactured, meaning that repeat runs bring powerful learner effects for centralised production facilities. And, given that the plant and surroundings fit into a space of about two football pitches once fully assembled, it can be pieced together by a single standardised production gantry assembled over the entire build site. This is the ‘Small Modular Reactor’, or SMR industrial concept, and intends to pass onto nuclear manufacture the opportunity for the same cost-reducing learner effects that grew solar and wind energy into global dominance. Will it work? Who knows, but let's look at Britain's résumé of problems: Overpriced construction, scarce and expensive energy, binding limits on carbon dioxide emissions and a need to electrify everything to achieve that, an over-reliance on random variable forms of energy generation (wind) with very little clean baseload, a dwindling supply of export champions… well you get the picture. All this plus the need to import lots of foreign expertise to fix problems. Lotto ticket!

I’m proud my Kherson report is about to hit 1M views on YouTube. Because it shows what’s at stake. How beautiful Kherson is, salt lakes, healing waters, amazing food. Most coverage only shows the destruction. People need to see what Ukrainians are fighting for every day.

All things being equal, mostly everybody in Ireland maybe should know who this young woman was. The reality is hardly anybody would be able to name her, which is quite sad, but hopefully by the end of this thread a few more people will be able to. Her name was Siobhán. /1

Well done @AoifeMFoley and Alan Wyley @EnergyCloud_org on @RTERadio1 this morning bringing to light wasted wind and actual solutions. @UtilityregCRU... let's go.. plug in battery grant, plug in solar while your at it. Help those in arrears. We pay for constraint payments and @AoifeMFoley was the first person I've heard on radio mentioning it.

You’re right on firm capacity, and also electrification and demand. I've said that for 20 years. But I’m looking at the whole energy system, not a single-technology solution. The focus here is near-term: how much imported fuel and cost we can remove by using the existing system better (efficiency, dispatch, flexibility, coordination). This has always been the key difference in my work. Much of the current approach starts within individual sectors, with carbon targets driving the solution. In practice, that often leads to retro-engineering outcomes to fit targets, rather than designing systems based on engineering, economics, and what can scale effectively. My approach is the reverse, first start with system operation, cost, and feasibility, then align environmental outcomes. The misalignment between these and carbon centric mass electrification has been a major policy, regulatory, and economic bottleneck. I’ve set out some of this thinking and early solutions in the attached working paper, apologies as is a jpeg/image, so had to add as three posts. I started working on this middle March. I also wrote to the UK & Irish government departments last Sunday outlining my concerns on energy prices across all sectors, and that this will have significant economic impacts over the longer term.

I am proud to have played a small role in bringing light to ongoing trade of Alumina from Ireland to Russia which will undoubtedly feed their war machine But max pressure on government both in Ireland&Estonia (where the transferring ships are owned)is needed to halt this madness

@TonightVMTV @LNBDublin @joeneville2010 Amazing how a company using 11% of Ireland's gas demand doesn't seem to bother people anywhere near the same as data centers 🤔

🗣️ “50% of electricity demand in Dublin is data centres,” 🗣️ “You are deliberately pushing up people's household bills, and decreasing the bills for the largest users of electricity,” @LNBDublin | @joeneville2010 | #TonightVMTV

@XEnergyIreland @higginsdavidw It's the 35GWh of wasted wind, yesterday alone that amazes me, there's bound to be a business case for offering every household a 20Kwh grid battery for free to reduce the wasted energy & it'd also reduce peak grid loads too, a win win

@higginsdavidw True. With both wind and solar saving us 74GWh = a huge 12 million m³ of natural gas from being used in a CCGT gas plant 🔥

Wind covered 64% of Ireland's electricity mix yesterday. We would be otherwise be burning more natural gas.

@higginsdavidw Car parks at motorway junctions, commuter towns, utilize every available space, allowing people to car share.

We have to get creative for key workers if fuel shortages are ahead. How about a leasing scheme for nurses, teachers etc. to drive unbought EVs? Maybe a separate scheme for open-drive insurance so existing EV owners who can WFH lend their cars to key workers? Any others?

Irish Electricity Mix on 27-Mar-2026 🔥Fossil/Thermal 42% 🌀Wind 46% ⚡Net Imports 7% 💧Hydro 1% ☀️Solar 4.4% ☀️Max Solar 14.6% (749MW) at 12:45 🔥Max Fossil/Thermal 52% at 08:30 𖣘Max Wind 66.9% at 16:30 𖣘Min Wind 16% at 08:30 ⛰︎Peak Demand 5.97GW at 19:30

@grok @erinkhoo @XEnergyIreland @EamonRyan Grok when you say drained peat soils are a source of CO2 in your calculations are you allowing for if said drained peat soils were undrained peat (rewetted) soils, they'd emit methane which is multiple times worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas?

According to EPA's 2024 National Inventory (2022 data): Forests (trees) provide a net sequestration of 2.44 Mt CO₂-eq/year. Mineral grassland soils (grass/plants) sequester ~1.42 Mt CO₂/year. AFBI research indicates agricultural grasslands (whole island) could sequester 5.4-10.8 Mt CO₂/year under typical management (1.1-2.2 t/ha). Note: Overall LULUCF is a net source (~4 Mt emissions) due to drained peat soils and other factors. Hedgerows add more.

Wind is the lynchpin for the ambitious netzero 2050 strategy and new "climate laws" driving Ireland's energy strategy. (The ones that unelected official @EamonRyan insists we obey) but according to the graph below, wind growth is.... dead. Furthermore, there are no valid numerical models (forecasted pathways) to Netzero for Ireland that predicted this 2019 - 2026 DEATH of wind growth. There are only 'hopes' of a revival after billions are spent on @EirGrid upgrades and miraculous storage solutions. Time to go back to first principles on energy and at least start to pay heed to Ireland's Academy of Engineers.