Fuel Protest (Read MOD NOTE on first post)

We don't need as many cattle farms as we have. They should be nationalised and rewilded.

Beyond daft.

Irish Beef and Produce is a premium product and a hugely successful export because of how it is farmed.

Also I can just imagine the reaction from literally everybody if a government tried to mass steal land from it's citizens.

Silly.

The problem with nuclear previously was the size of the power plants and the effects if something went wrong. Both of those parameters have changed since the last proposal fifty years ago.

Yeah to me and agricultural contractor would be more like a change management specialist, a leadership trainer or someone brought in to integrate new software. Short term for a very specific job.

while wind only managed 1.7 of 7 on a day with 5 peak demand

May is the sunniest month in Ireland on average. We're less than a week from May. Electricity demand will be lower on days like we're getting currently, no tumble dryers going, people eating salads instead of roasting a dinner in the oven, etc…

The peak demand this morning was 5.4G

That pie chart on most winter days here would paint a totally different story. In mid-winter demand exceeds 7.0G on occasion.

Under a high pressure cell in winter, often which are full of anticyclonic 'gloom', i.e. a cloudy high (settled, cloudy, cool to cold and near calm), we will need serious amounts of gas, nuclear, oil, coal, whatever you can get you hands on, to generate electricity. Solar panels will be very limited and wind turbines will not generate, no matter how many turbines there are.

No, that doesn’t happen.

I have one that was built and now looks like an industrial estate surrounded by high fences, without locals finding out until too late (due to Covid lockdowns) and no one in area getting anything for it.

These foreign companies using Israeli tactics of putting “facts on the ground” to ram through what amount to gross abuse of planning process as there is currently a loophole

Another one of 1000+ acres is being fought tooth and nail uniting the community

RTE news : Why is oil coming from northern Europe costing us more?

http://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2026/0425/1570092-analysis-fuel-prices/

A Ladybird article that RTE has compiled for thick b@st@rds (blockade supporters, you know who you are) who can't think and just react like bleeting sheep.

No the fact that it’s an order of magnitude less co2 and costs is main reason as been discussed to death and backed up by real world data instead of marketing we get which led us to have one of the highest electricity prices in world that’s still produces gobs of co2 and relies on gas

Annoying hundreds of communities up and down the country by turning food producing land into industrial estates for foreign companies who rip us off is not great either, something politicians will learn come next elections

I’ve nothing against solar, have it myself, but put it on empty roofs of which there are plenty not green fields

getting back to thread topic

We are told solar is cheap, turns out it’s cheap because planning can be bypassed and externalities and 10% capacity factor ignored

Plenty of green areas in Dublin that don’t grow food, stick em there next to demand

The population of the world is still rapidly climbing, 69 million people added in the last 12 months, that’s a UK sized population that will need to be fed now … just added in the last year

Converting thousands of acres of food producing land into industrial estates is a crime, double so as it means more virgin rainforests are then cut down to feed people… and we still need to burn gas the 90% time these panels are barely producing

Put these panels on roofs and industrial estates and over car parks, motorway sides like Germany, no need to buy land then

Or just build a single nuclear plant taking 50-100 hectares in Dublin port or between Dublin and Belfast and provide cheap clean electricity like normal countries in Europe like France do, French emit 6x less co2 than us and have much cheaper electricity for their industries and consumers

Is it not the EU that subsides farming to provide food security for EU countries not just Ireland.

What I can’t understand is how the Govt continues to allow planning for housing development after housing development without requiring all such developments to blanket the houses with solar panels. Vested interest being placated again?

Seems ridiculous to be paying grants to households to retrofit panels and at the same time not mandating that all new building have them installed by the developers and baked into the cost of the houses? Or am I missing something?