The Anonymous Widower

Singapore-Based Enterprize To Build $10bn Wind Farm Off Irish Coast

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the Irish Times.

This is the first paragraph.

A Singapore-based offshore wind developer has signed an agreement to build a huge $10 billion (€8.88 billion) wind farm off the coast of Ireland to power a green hydrogen facility.

This is certainly a large investment.

  • The windfarm will have a capacity of 4 GW.
  • Hydrogen will be produced for the Irish market and some will be converted to ammonia for export.
  • The hydrogen will be produced at the Green Marlin hydrogen facility at Bantry Bay.
  • I’ve not heard of Enterprize before, but the company  is also developing a 3.4 gigawatt offshore wind farm in Vietnam and is looking at Brazil.

Enterprize Energy are obviously very ambitious.

This article on Fuel Cell Works, which is entitled Zenith Energy And EI-H2 Announce Joint Venture For Green Facility At Bantry Bay, gives more details of the Green Marlin project.

Conclusion

There are some big companies investing billions of pounds, dollars and euros in hydrogen.

November 27, 2021 Posted by | Energy, Hydrogen | , , , , , | 1 Comment

Omicron I Can Understand, But Arwen Is Surely A Funny Name For A Storm!

This article on the Birmingham Mail is entitled Storm Arwen: What Does The Name Arwen Mean And Who Chooses Storm Names?.

It says this about Arwen.

The name Arwen is believed to be of ancient Welsh origin and means “fair” or “good”. It is most commonly a female name.

Arwen was made famous by J.R.R Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings book series, which sees the name translated to “noble maiden” in Sindarin.

I’ve never read any of Tolkein’s books or seen any of the films, but I have played real tennis several times with one of his cousins.

He is or was a man who was involved with high-vacuum scientific equipment. He had some interesting tales about selling the equipment to the Soviet Bloc. He said that he always had a few of his cousin’s books handy, as they made excellent presents to oil the wheels of Soviet bureaucracy.

I hope everybody reading this, has been untroubled by the wrath of Arwen.

I

November 27, 2021 Posted by | World | , , , , | Leave a comment