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    We should to this off the south /south-east coast

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    1. underover69 on

      Solar, nuclear, wind, hydro, we need it all.

      The government needs to invest. Oil is not the future.

    2. HighDeltaVee on

      It’s not really suitable for open ocean, as the Atlantic tends to get quite enthusiastic at times.

      Also, the land issue is pretty overblown… the full expected 8GW solar build-out in Ireland is going to take less than 0.3% of arable land.

    4. TraditionalAppeal23 on

      The problem is those stands are actually insanely expensive and they can only be put in shallow water. The places where this makes the most sense are water reservoirs to prevent the water from evaporating, California is doing that, that way you save water + generate electricity and the extra cost is justifiable.

    7. LurkerByNatureGT on

      Offshore wind turbines make much more sense for our waters, and we are already doing that. 

    9. Fickle_Definition351 on

      A million times easier just to put them on the fields I’d say. It’s not like we have a shortage of them

    11. DaRudeabides on

      Great idea, Atlantic storm surges never hit the South, South East coast /s

    12. qwerty_1965 on

      This is happening on reservoirs in Britain unfortunately we hardly have any of scale but if Vartry was covered that would be quite useful.

    16. svmk1987 on

      We need to utilise wind, we have plenty of that, and our seas are obviously too rough for something like this. Unfortunately, off shore wind attracts a lot of planning objections.

    17. FriendshipIll1681 on

      We’ll fill the roofs first and go from there 😊 For example, install solar on all public buildings and we’ll have an awful lot of solar.

    18. bigusdickus475 on

      Need more Wind Farms out at sea not this still plenty of space on roofs or over car parks or even as rain shades before we should think of putting them at sea.

    20. 5x0uf5o on

      OP China is clearly doing this on inland water / lakes. Not the open sea. Use your brain.

    21. niknakpaddywak2468 on

      Jesus, these are the type of brain dead suggestions that would be laughed out of a pub. Do some fucking research before posting shite like this

    23. Relation_Familiar on

      Also reduces evaporation which is why they do this in reservoirs

    24. fullmoonbeam on

      On top of large car parks would be the best new place to add panels include rapid chargers with local battery banks to take the strain off the grid and then send any excess to the grid.

    25. SugarforurProlapse on

      Could work vey well paired with tidal power generation.

      Would help with coastal erosion too.

      Slap a wind turbine on top and you have a 3 for 1 deal on a pole in the ocean.

    26. DannyVandal on

      I think we should just flatten Dublin and turn it into a solar park.

    29. Irishdairyfarmer1 on

      Corrosion and salt and storms and deep water tides are a few reasons this won’t work in the Atlantic

    30. LegalAd143 on

      I’m not a marine biologist but would this not kill off the sealife underneath it?

      I don’t understand, why we don’t cover our cities/ rooftops before we cover anywhere else… I can contemplate China not caring much (if this is a real video).

    31. Threading_water on

      Please remember. NIMBYism doesn’t exist in China. Here we have clowns objecting to wind turbines 10 and 15 km off shore.

    32. ImpressiveLength1261 on

      Would ya stop would ya, it takes 9 years to build a hospital and we still can’t figure out how to build a train track to the national airport.

    39. is-that-james-lowe on

      It’s a form of ecocide. All the plant life needs sunlight for photosynthesis and aquatic life needs the plants for food.

    40. Craicriture on

      The Atlantic Ocean and Celtic Sea would smash that to bits – even the Irish Sea is very rough.

      On land here the already strip mined Bord na Mona bogs would seem like the obvious location, considering they’re ruined by being drained and industrial peat harvesting anyway.