There's great dryin' in that wind!

The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams

News & Politics

4.6 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Economics is energy and energy is economics. Imagine a country blessed with renewable energy, able to power itself and export electricity, faced with the opportunity to completely transform its economy and society and contribute positively to eliminating carbon emissions? That country is Ireland; and outcrop in the north Atlantic buffeted by maritime winds. When Mammy said there's great drying in that wind, she was talking about the transformative opportunity that living in a constant gale affords. Are we going to seize the wind energy chance or are we going to blow it? Listen and find out.

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1:32.0	How are you doing there? It's time for the podcast I have managed to, unfortunately, leave Paris and back home in Ireland. It has its charms, but they're hard to find sometimes.
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