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WASTE HEAT FROM the Guinness brewery in Dublin could be used to heat the proposed new children’s hospital at the St James’s site.
The planning application for the €650 million hospital was lodged with An Bord Pleanala yesterday.
A feasibility study is being carried out to assess if excess heat produced by the Guinness brewery could be harnessed to heat the new hospital.
It could involve pumping hot water or steam from the brewery to the new hospital.
If found to be possible it could result in big savings.
The study is being carried out by Veolia, a leading environmental services company which develops ways to carefully manage energy and waste.
The study is currently under way however it is too early to produce any findings.
The design concept for the campus aims for it to be as environmentally friendly as possible.
The proposed new hospital will have thirteen wards providing 380 single in-patient rooms, with ensuite bathrooms and overnight beds for parents. Other family accommodation includes a 60-bed facility near the entrance.
There will also be 42 beds in the critical care unit and 18 neonatal critical care units.
The plan to build a new children’s hospital has been mired in controversy over the years as arguments were made as to where it should be located.
An Bord Pleanála previously refused permission for the facility at the Mater Hospital site in Dublin.
While some opposition groups have voiced their criticisms to the location, the Health Minster Leo Varadkar said the hospital will be “world class”.
“There’ll always be objections, there’s objections to somebody putting an extension onto their house. So I’ve no doubt there’ll be objections, and there’d be objections no matter where’s it’s located. But there’s also a huge amount of support behind it.”
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More asbestos, more asbestos
Colm…I think your wit was lost on a few people there
Nice idea. They’ll be thousands of people lining up to buy Guinness in their local pubs to do their bit and contribute heating the children’s hospital
Great excuse for a piss up. “But I’m helpin da childer *Hick.”
That’s a clever idea to be fair. Just once the kids won’t get sloshed of the alcohol fumes
relatively normal thinking in Nordic countries, good to see people finally looking at more environmentally friendly ways of building design after all the dreadful vanity projects that big Architectural design firms usually come up with!
It’s an astoutding idea
Big effin’ whoop. The Danes have been using municipal heating – generated by waste incinerators – for more than forty years, to the best of my knowledge. Modern, thrusting, digital Ireland is copping on to this idea in 2015??? Who’da thunk it. That sounds mean, but owing to the thousands of junkets availed of by Councillors country wide to exotic locations, it is very annoying to me that none ever come back with a sensible or useful ‘fact’ from their ‘fact finding missions’. Kudos, begrudgingly, to whoever decided to adopt this ancient idea, however, since it may in fact benefit the new Hospital.
Jeebsus, is there anything Diageo won’t do to get people drinking at an earlier age??
It’s believed a second option of pipes leading to Leinster house for the copious amount of hot air has also been muted by a spokesman
it’s the worst possible site and this bull is an attempt at making it seem more sensible
surely Guinness won’t be giving it away
Wonder will that aul cantankerous holier than thou troubadour Christy Moore whinge about Diageo for this
No way FG Inc will allow that, they’d rather pi$$ away taxpayers money to [redacted]‘s companies for twice the price and then congratulate themselves for doing so!!
Hey it’s better than what the Brits do!
Go away, you horrible gobsh!te.
Nice one,Rashers!
EB = Eternal Bullsh*t?
EB.. Enoch Burke?
But sure yeah, let’s begrudge hospitals using what is medically termed “clinical waste” for a positive purpose..
So Guinness is now a green beer?
A nice little earner for Arfur!
so what, i can turn guinness into a powerful gas
I recall the power station opening when I was a babby and one of our neighbours worked in it when it maybehad old fashioned boilers and turbines but then it changed to gas turbines of which I have no details, anyone got an update? Did it ever have diesel powered Gennies?
“Mammy, Mammy, Mammy ,look at all dem red thumbs, are they the Persil meteors that the journal mentioned ?”
” No son, there are rockets being fired at you by the Perpetually Offended”
” Are they the Greenies upset at steam and diesel and the Moslems because we mentioned Guinness and the Gougers from Fatima Mammy? ”
” Holy Macerel Conception son, ye can’t call them gougers, they’re called ‘Concerneded Citizens now”
” Mammy remember they used to throw stones at the little girls going to Basin Lane school and the boys going to the Brothers ?”
” Yes son, but times have changed they probably shoot at them now”
“Mammy ,why did they stop calling it Kevin’s Hospital? Was Kevin a usher?”
” That’s enough son, they’ll blow a fuse at this”
gas boilers, turbines driven by steam
Thank you for that Thomas :-)
Waste heat? I’m confused.
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