Moneypoint power station
Moneypoint power station (Irish: Stáisiúin Chumhachta Ghob na Muine) is Ireland's largest electricity generation station (output 915 MW) and only coal-fired power station. Commissioned between 1985-87, it is located on the River Shannon near Kilrush, County Clare. It was constructed at a cost of more than £700m in one of the largest capital projects in the history of Ireland. The station operates largely on coal, making it both unique in the context of Irish electricity production and the country's single largest emitter of greenhouse gases. It is capable of meeting around 25% of customer demand across the country. It has two Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) storage tanks with a capacity of 50,000 tonnes which can be used as a back-up fuel if required.
Three Brown Boveri four-cylinder, single-shaft impulse reaction turbines are directly connected to three generators which generate the power. The steam is generated by three Foster Wheeler two-pass boilers, which convert water into high pressure steam by combustion of the coal.
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Minapendawe
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Minapendawe has nothing to eat
Minapendawe hardly stands on her feet
Still she keeps going on drying out under the burning
Searching food to survive to keep her children alive
Will she find it in time
Or will the desert just take another life away
Will she get through the day
Oh, does she know how to fight when there is nothing to
Only the night and then the struggle again
Is there a way to maybe give her a little thing her
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Minapendawe Minapendawe Minapendawe Minapendawe
Minapendawe has nothing to eat
Minapendawe hardly stands on her feet
She remembers the time
Fruit was juicy 'cause nature was kind
When they had to run away life got harder every day
Bones now bleach in the sun
So many people she loved and so much hope that is gone
But she must go on
Oh, does she know how to fight when there is nothing to
Only the night and then the struggle again
Is there a way to maybe give her a little thing
Oh, does she know how to fight when there is nothing to
Only the night and then the struggle again
Is there a way someone can help today