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Security of Irelands electricity and natural gas systems

Jim O'Brien
Ireland
2022
icsf.ie - Irish Climate Science Forum
Roses in Skibbereen, Ireland

By the year 2032, Irish and European historians will wonder as to how the Western World in the early 2020’s unquestioningly believed that there was an “existential climate emergency”, predicated on exaggerated IPCC models and unbalanced media myopia.

They will also wonder how the associated costly drive towards intermittent renewables did not take into account the fundamental electrical engineering imperative of maintaining power grid reliability, in the then absence of any viable grid-scale storage technology.