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@AFCDecko_ @SparksF1 @Shauns_Aviation In fact, there was a medical diversion to Shannon this morning.

@SparksF1 @Shauns_Aviation Shannon is open for emergencies anyway

There is only one day a year that private pilots can operate ‘freely’ around Dublin Airport Today is that day!!! Dublin Airport is closed to commercial traffic on christmas to give staff a well deserved break, But the tower remains open with skeleton staff to facilitate Search and Rescue flights as well as Emergency Air Ambulance flights. Today, some light aircraft are also being permitted to do a few low passes of the runway! #aviation #christmas #travel #avgeek #dublin #ireland #DublinAirport

If we were *really* serious about tackling nature collapse in Ireland (a very big if, I know), what would we be doing? A thread...🧵

To those still skeptical that Israel is committing war crimes: Will you believe it when it comes from a literal IDF officer saying "yes we murder civilians and then pretend they were terrorists"? If not then, then what amount of evidence will suffice?

@Jzman88 @TDM_Jesus @Strandjunker Yeah, you're wrong.

@TDM_Jesus @Strandjunker Hey if I am wrong I will gladly change my perspective. I personally know 3 people from those countries and they all have nightmare stories.. just going by personal experience..

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies. Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, + that rewilding reverses nature loss. theguardian.com/environment/20…

@EndTheEU @thejournal_ie Did you even look at that picture before you posted it?

@thejournal_ie The usual Euro-Green communist cult lies. They don’t want cars EV or otherwise. They never did. They want deindustrialisation and bikes. You will own nothing.

Green Party promise to facilitate cut in electricity prices for EV owners if reelected The party said it will introduce a system where EV owners can charge their car using low-price electricity at night, and run their homes using that same electricity.thejournal.ie/green-party-en…

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Four different trams. On separate lines. All going in different directions. The Irish mind boggles! One of the biggest things holding Dublin back is the lack of good public transport. It's getting better. But it's still miles from where it should be.

@burner199020 @NaoSouONight @gerarddunne20 @AJC_DoesItAll @Telegraph 1. Bullshit. It's a school. Being a taxpayer doesn't give you the right to enter. 2. He doesn't. Not anymore. He was fired for harassing his boss. Repeatedly. And because he doesn't have a job anymore he doesn't pay taxes. So your "1." response is doubly wrong.

@NaoSouONight @gerarddunne20 @AJC_DoesItAll @Telegraph 1. It's a public building anyone who pays taxes has the right to enter. 2. He works there.

📸 Watch: Christian teacher who refused to use trans pupil’s preferred pronouns jailed for third time

Nice simple graphic (from @Chargemap ) for anyone struggling with kW vs kWh. Note the W is upper case. Who else knows why this is? ⚡️🤓

@cianjmur @IrishEnergyBot There needs to be a minimum amount of spinning inertia in the grid, which wind turbines don't provide. The more synchronous condensers we have the more gas plants can be dispatched down during high wind events. x.com/Jordan_W_Taylo…

@IrishEnergyBot Why do wind and gas follow the same time trace like that? Why doesn't gas dispatch down in line with demand instead of exceeding demand?

Wind, hydro, biomass, and waste generation along with pumped storage discharge was equivalent to 74% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 94% at 05:30. Other sources (mostly gas) equalled 32% of demand. 6% of generation was exported, 1% of demand was met by imports.

FACTCHECK Almost everything Reform Party and its leader @TiceRichard say about climate and energy is wrong On BBC Breakfast, Tice blamed volcanoes for warming And Reform's manifesto packed 30 false or misleading statements into 500-words on energy/env theguardian.com/environment/ar…

@richardaucock @PeugeotUKPR You say "You don't have to plug it in" as if that's a good thing. 🤦‍♂️ The cleanest energy for road vehicles comes from plugging in.

46% zero-emissions EV motoring, and 64.1mpg. You don’t have to plug it in, either. Tell me why we shouldn’t embrace affordable hybrids as a stepping stone to EV?

In 2022, short on electrical grid inertia and long on renewable power, Ireland installed the world's largest flywheel, 130 spinning tons. Why did we do something so preposterous? And are there other, better storage technologies? Let's find out. It's the grid storage thread!

@acfunduro @GavinTobin @greenparty_ie We pay for the connector for the real benefits it provides; low CO2 electricity from France/Europe, viability for more wind & solar penetration in the Irish grid, less thermal generation needed on standby during high wind events, cheaper average electricity prices, etc.

@CillDar @GavinTobin @greenparty_ie I'll have to keep a closer eye on the Eirgrid dashboard. Dunkelflaute is very likely as well so great to have nuclear on tap. Weird, we pay for the connector and the private wimdfarm owners make the profits. Go neo liberalism.

Emerald Isle....NOT Most carbon intensive grid in Western Europe today 🙄 @greenparty_ie

@acfunduro @GavinTobin @greenparty_ie Probably about 40-70 times a year, predominantly in the winter. So having less curtailment events, and less severe curtailment means wind turbines are more profitable, which increases the financially viability of current and new wind projects.

@CillDar @GavinTobin @greenparty_ie How often has that happened in the past?

@acfunduro @GavinTobin @greenparty_ie France has ~15GW of interconnections to Europe. When we have curtailed wind on our grid the settlement price drops to zero. This will absolutely be bought by the french grid. And if they have surplus they'll be selling to Germany/Switzerland/Spain/Belgium/Italy.

@CillDar @GavinTobin @greenparty_ie And like the Leprechaun, we are likely never to see that. The giant plug is for safe stable French nuclear power and that's a good thing. We are decades of exporting and you know that as well. Decades.

@acfunduro @GavinTobin @greenparty_ie The Celtic Interconnector will be a 700MW DC connection to the french grid. It won't be a one-way connection; we will be able to import power from France's grid and we will be able to export surplus wind power that would otherwise be curtailed.

@GavinTobin @greenparty_ie Relax. I Gwh of green French nuclear power arriving soon. Up to 20% of our electrons will be atomic in no time, the "other" in the fuel mix on your bill. Vive la France.

⚡️For the first time, the share of renewables in domestic generation has been higher than that of fossil fuels 2 months in a row (Feb & Mar 2024)! Last month, renewables made up 52.5% of total generation. Head over to our new report for more March stats: greencollective.io/post/2024-04-0…

@IrishEnergyBot @JosephJCullen Eirgrid need to update their website; they're quite a bit behind.

Wind generation late this morning equalling the all-time record of 4629MW set last December. This was equivalent to 79% of electricity demand at the time 🥇🥇 (bit of a surprise - thanks @JosephJCullen for alerting us while we're off travelling in a very distant timezone! ✈️)