Huntstown Power Station, Dublin
According to data from Eurostat Irish households pay the highest electricity prices in the EU
Here is the table:
🇮🇪 20.69c per kWh unit
🇧🇪 17.67c
🇩🇪 15.62c
🇪🇸 13.58c
🇪🇺 13.29c
🇫🇷 12.72c
🇫🇮 12.00c
🇮🇸 10.71c
🇩🇰 10.40c
🇭🇺 07.89c
🇺🇦 04.04c— Carol Nolan TD (@CNolanOffaly) November 3, 2021
Gulp.
Anyone?
Update: figures disputed (see comments).
Previously: Irish Firms May Face Power Cuts at Hour’s Notice, Report Says
This day 73 years ago – 5 November 1946 – the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) began its Rural Electrification Scheme to bring electricity to remote parts of Ireland.
It became known as “the Quiet Revolution.” The first electricity pole was erected at Kilsallaghan in County. Dublin…
Uncanny, in fairness.
Meanwhile…
EirGrid has published Tomorrow’s Energy Scenarios 2019, an analysis of Ireland’s electricity sector over the next 20 years. One of its key findings is that electricity demand will increase by a range of 28% to 55% by 2030 compared to 2018. Read more: https://t.co/egTFgKyPVF pic.twitter.com/VBkbJqUodY
— EirGrid Plc (@EirGrid) November 4, 2019
Another fascinating science animation from German educational design studio Kurzgesagt. In this case, the electromagnetic radiation that surrounds us and whether it’s as dangerous as some think.
Previously: Is Meat Bad For You?
Gorugeen writes:
This appeared overnight in Celbridge [Co Kildare]….
People around the world produce an estimated 6.4 trillion litres of urine every year. BRL, a collaboration between the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, want to make the most of this abundant resource. At the core of urine-tricity are microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which contain live microbes. When urine flows through an MFC the microbes consume it as part of their normal metabolic process. This, in turn, frees electrons. Electrodes within the cell gather these electrons and when they are connected to an external circuit a current is generated.
It is early days, but the work—which is being supported by a number of organisations, including the Gates Foundation—shows that urine could have the potential to make a significant contribution to renewable energy. It might also provide a commercial incentive to build more toilets—over 2.5 billion people around the world have no access to proper sanitation.
There’s money in them thar ‘nals.
Melanie Hoff, a student at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, connected cables to a large sheet of wood and passed 15,000 volts through it, resulting in some rather unexpected fractal-esque patterns, like slow motion lightning.
We have no idea what this means but we’re pretty sure things will never be the same again.
