#eng4climate
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world" Albert Einstein
Engineers For Climate Action
Advocates for a shared understanding of sustainability
Sustainability must be more than just a buzzword but sustainability means different things to different people and groups of people.
We need a shared understanding of what sustainability means in practice.
Engineers for Climate Action advocate for a shared understanding of sustainability and Climate Action using the shared language of The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
First
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
"A shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.”
Engineers for Climate Action focus on SDGs 7 and 13 as two complimentary SDG's promoting a sustainable energy sector .
Goal 7 - is to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Goal 13 - is to ensure effective Climate Action before irreversible damage is caused to our planet.
DISPATCHABLE RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY
Advocates for dispatchable renewables via gas turbines on green hydrogen and waste heat recovery
OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY
Advocates for co-ordinated and timely development of Ireland's huge offshore renewable energy (ORE) potential.
Ireland has a maritime area seven times its land area with some of the best wind/wave resources globally.
The Irish government has a target of developing ORE generation capacity ;
5GW by 2030,
20GW by 2040 and;
37GW by 2050
Ireland's south coast has the potential for 3.5GW to 18GW of fixed-bottom wind
Ireland's Atlantic coast has the potential for 30GW of floating wind.
DISPATCHABLE NUCLEAR ENERGY SMALL MODULAR REACTORS
Advocates for Nuclear Small Modular Reactors 150- 300 MW to provide dispatchale back-up for intermittent renewables
WASTE ENERGY RECOVERY AND DISTRICT HEATING
Advocates for renewable heat and waste heat recovery