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on the move 16-01-2012 11:20

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Originally Posted by hoopsheff
One of their reasons is for extra fuel costs :eek:


I always thought that it was electric myself

It is electric, but they need more reasons to convince the NTMA to give in.

Colm Moore 16-01-2012 11:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by hoopsheff (Post 65815)
One of their reasons is for extra fuel costs :eek:

I always thought that it was electric myself

Luas has a 50MW(?) gas generator at Sandyford.

hoopsheff 16-01-2012 16:33

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Originally Posted by Colm Moore (Post 65873)
Luas has a 50MW(?) gas generator at Sandyford.

:eek:

and here was me thinking that they were the green alternative!!

dowlingm 16-01-2012 18:50

Gas has very quick spin-up spin-down time which is why it's a good option of backup generation. I doubt that generator spends much time going.


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