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    Members distance themselves from engineer body’s call to burn coal for electricity


    Members distance themselves from engineer body’s call to burn coal for electricity

    https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2026/05/18/members-distance-themselves-from-engineer-bodys-call-to-burn-coal-for-electricity/

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    3. MaryLouGoodbyeHeart on

      Personally I think it’d be wiser for these people not to just allow themselves to be associated with a body trying to pretend to be a professional body but actually being a small group of cranks who nobody can control.

      Might see up the “Anglo Irish Lawyers’ Chambers School Bar Club”, convince some former judges to join by sending them a fancy medal or something, and start writing about how we should make it legal to have sex with tractors.

    4. Marzipan_civil on

      The professional body is Engineers Ireland, never heard of this crowd

    5. Leavser1 on

      We should absolutely go back to burning coal provided it’s temporary while we build a nuclear power plant.

    6. pmjwhelan on

      Are they also recommending to run the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas?

    7. Automata-Omnia on

      Ok so it doesn’t make much sense wrt fossil fuels, but this isn’t what this was about. It recommended a coal plant for last resort generation and expansion of LNG terminals in response to supply chain issues.

      The benefit of having a coal plant is that we are able to easily obtain and stockpile and and the plants are cheap and quick to turn on and off without much extra logistical concerns. It would be sitting idle 300 days a year, but provide a safety blanket, crisis planning is something the governement is pretty hopeless at though.

    8. Sufficient_Shift_370 on

      Another example of being unable to report news objectively.
      Instead of reporting the Organisations recommendations, the story is a few objections to the recommendations

    9. elec-pick on

      > The academy is a group of engineers currently holding or retired from senior roles in the public and private sector.

      Auld lads with time on their hands. If it were me I’d be in the allotment earthing up the spuds rather than railing against change that has already happened.

      You’d wonder how many people actually had a say in this recommendation.

    11. Affectionate_Art4277 on

      Nuclear, solar and wind are the path forward.

      Coal, peat and gas maybe as a contingency plan should we need it, but we have to move on from fossil fuels sooner rather than later

    12. bigvalen on

      Jaysus. I love how they think govt policy has too much emphasis on CO2 reduction, when we are third worst in the eu27 at it.

      It’s worth noting that the academy commissions reports all of the time. They bury ones that they don’t like, if they are too offensive.

      Myself and a few others did one on the state of the Irish internet in 2012, and our opinions on the ministry of communications & the national broadband plan at the time, plus the value of Eir and Vodafone were too indelicate for wider release. A year later, after getting reports that maybe we were right, hey asked for a re-do, with the more…direct…feedback removed. I bet they must get dozens a year, and most are boring.

      But expanding a coal plant, when coal is more expensive than even nuclear, is a… interesting opinion.