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ORGANIC POWER LIMITEDFBD House, Mardyke Street, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, IrelandTelephone/Fax: 003532851951; email :info@organicpower.ieCompany Registration No. 406133 ;VAT No.:IE6426133VORGANIC POWER LIMITEDFBD House, Mardyke Street, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, IrelandTelephone/Fax: 003532851951; email: info@organicpower.ieCompany Registration No. 406133 ;VAT No.:IE6426133V24) If you go up 3000M in the Alps your lake need onlybe 8% (10acres 27m deep) as big as the lake proposedfor Gleninagh to get the same power out AND youdon't have to worry about leaks as you are usingwater from the Glaciers which are supposed to leakdown the mountain. So this is much cheaper.For one, as everybody knows, there are no mountainshigher than 1041m in Ireland. In the Alps a head of 300mis considered as a good medium size head for PHES.Most pumped hydro heads are even less. Further, andmore importantly, the closer a pumped hydro to the powersource (for pumping) and the consumers the better - inorder to keep the transport loss at a minimum. And - thisis actually another topic - we are at the beginning of aglobal fresh water shortage, and Ireland is not anexception. So why not use salt water for power generation,which is basically limitless. (Axel)25) One of Mr. McCarthy's opening statements wasthat we lose 10% of electricity in the distribution of thepower ie. in the transmission lines we loose it as heat2.5 to 3% and the other is excess production. Loosingthis power at 8am is a big problem as that is when it ismost needed but loosing it at 3am the loss is not sosignificant so it makes sense to me is we should beinstalling Wind , Wave and Tidal generation systemand exporting the power into the European wide gridwhen the national grid is virtually idle ie between 1amand 6am and thus minimize your transmission lossesand leaving the pumped storage to those location whoare better placed than us; and nearer to the consumer.26) On the Organic Power specification sheet of theirbrochure they claim that the ”High Water Mark” of thereservoir is 325M but on the opposite page the OSmap tell the truth that it can not be more than 270M,that extra 55m is a hell of a lot more energy if onlythey had it.The Organic Power brochure on the SEA WATERPUMPED HYDROELECTRIC STORAGE SCHEMEGLENINAGH MOUNTAIN, CO. CLARE states a top waterlevel of 325m and the extraction of the OS map with theschematic layout of the reservoir shows the last visiblecontour line at 280m - which is not the height of thereservoir level. Please check an unaltered OS map for theactual elevation (and contour lines) of the mountain (i.e.Gleninagh Mountain 317m O.D.). The base level of thereservoir is projected to be approximately 300m.27) It is noteworthy that they claim that 2 people canrun the operation, Turlough hill near Dublin has thepotential to generate 250Mwatts and they require 22personnel.Turlough Hill was built in the late sixties - early seventies.Since then technology has made more like a jump than astep forward. So it is more than natural that running aplant is more automated and therefore needs a lot lesspersonnel. Additional to the permanent employedpersonnel there would be of course contracted personnelon demand. (Axel)Cannot understand the logic in this statement (Jimmy)Directors: Maurice McCarthy, Brian Walsh, James Nolan, Leo O’DriscollDirectors: Maurice McCarthy, Brian Walsh, James Nolan, Leo O’Driscoll46
ORGANIC POWER LIMITEDFBD House, Mardyke Street, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, IrelandTelephone/Fax: 003532851951; email :info@organicpower.ieCompany Registration No. 406133 ;VAT No.:IE6426133VA lot of the old power stations under ESB control are stilloperated under 1970 work practices hence large staffnumbers a bit like the NHS and civil service. The figure of2 is correct, excluding those in the visitor centre. (Jimmy).Directors: Maurice McCarthy, Brian Walsh, James Nolan, Leo O’Driscoll47
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