Young scientists look at how wind power could provide energy security and employment for Ireland.
A team of five students from Blackpool Secondary School in Cork have conducted a study titled 'Wind Power : The Possibilities For Ireland'. The project on show at the Young Scientist Exhibition looks at how the manufacture of wind generating units would create employment and lessen Ireland’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Paul Duggan explains the project findings to Conor McAnally and how Ireland’s geographical location provides ideal wind speeds for electricity generation,
The wind speeds around Ireland are the best in fact in the whole world.
Denmark is an example of country which has successfully adapted wind energy as a source of electricity and created jobs.
The group also visited an AnCO (An Chomhairle Oiliúna, the national training council) centre in Cork and found that potential labour and transferable skills are available. With the right plans the students say,
We would have the foundations of the wind industry in Ireland.
Storing excess electricity is a problem, but the Cork schoolboys have looked how it can be used in the creation of hydrogen gas which can be
Used in hospitals, cooking, heating, industry and burned to generate electricity.
This report for ‘Youngline’ was broadcast on 18 January 1979. The reporter is Conor McAnally.
'Youngline' was a once weekly, half-hour magazine show for younger viewers. The first programme was broadcast on Tuesday, 23 November 1976 from 5.30 to 6.00pm. 'Youngline' continued until May 1984.
