No Windfarms, No Fracking, No Nuclear Power ?

kinklee7 · 15-04-2014 09:23PM #1

Fossel Fuel wont last forever ! What do you suggest to generate the power we will need going forward ? I think one decent Nuclear power plant would suffice. Oh and No to the the waste plant in Ringsend which would make a big hole in Landfill. I just want to know, What do you want ? We cant burn turf forever cos they want to retain the bogs ? I am on the fence, I don't know...

wazky · 15-04-2014 09:27PM

Burn ghost estates full of bondholders.

/thankswhoring

WilyCoyote · 15-04-2014 09:28PM

No future!

The Aussie · 15-04-2014 09:28PM

Some people just won't be happy till we are all sitting in a dark room eating a big bowl of Tofu.... Tofu for all I say.

Red Pepper · 15-04-2014 09:29PM

I love windfarms. New one went up near us recently. Majestic sight.

bodice ripper · 15-04-2014 09:30PM

Last time I saw a title like that, it was written on a big sign being carried by a white girl with dreadlocks with ring-pulls tied in.

jane82 · 15-04-2014 09:31PM

The nhs burn dead babies apparantly.

Sam Russell · 15-04-2014 09:34PM

Whatever happened to the phone mast protesters?

Oh, yea - they got smart-phones.

kneemos · 15-04-2014 09:34PM

Red Pepper wrote: »

I lovMe windfarms. New one went up near us recently. Majestic sight.

Hideous looking waste of money.

biko · 15-04-2014 09:35PM

Burn Athlone, that should keep us warm for a couple months.

visual · 15-04-2014 09:35PM

Wind technology just isn't feasible at present
but nuclear power is.

We should have built a plant long ago but better later than never.

However no one wants it it there back garden so wherever they put it there will be nay sayers

If we discovered oil it be hassle getting it ashore with nay sayers

SamAK · 15-04-2014 09:36PM

Nuclear Fusion, pretty please.

Outkast_IRE · 15-04-2014 09:36PM

kneemos wrote: »

Hideous looking waste of money.

I quite like the look of them too. When planned right they can be an amazing sight.

Red Pepper · 15-04-2014 09:36PM

kneemos wrote: »

Hideous looking waste of money.

why did you edit my post? I don't like the look of that M.

monkeysnapper · 15-04-2014 09:36PM

jane82 wrote: »

The nhs burn dead babies apparantly.

Your really sick

Davarus Walrus · 15-04-2014 09:38PM

There is a rump of Irish society that is perennially in a state of protest. Latching on to causes and saying no to everything. I don't think they actually have a cohesive ideology or belief system; more a sense of anger projected on a world that has failed them. So no to new power sources, yet outrage at rising energy costs. Something about the environment as well.

I won't comment on my personal preference for future energy needs, as I work in the industry and am biased towards a certain solution.

jane82 · 15-04-2014 09:38PM

monkeysnapper wrote: »

Your really sick

No they do.
Im not the one burning the babies

DazMarz · 15-04-2014 09:39PM

Sums it all up quite better than I ever could:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIa8XZxYvrI

Red Pepper · 15-04-2014 09:39PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

There is a rump of Irish society that is perennially in a state of protest. Latching on to causes and saying no to everything. I don't think they actually have a cohesive ideology or belief system; more a sense of anger projected on a world that has failed them.

Absofückinglutely spot on Mr Walrus!!

This post should be the 2nd post in all After Hours threads!

Well said Sir, well said.

Sh1tbag OToole · 15-04-2014 09:42PM

SamAK wrote: »

Nuclear Fusion, pretty please.

Mr. Fusion is coming out next year

kneemos · 15-04-2014 09:45PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

There is a rump of Irish society that is perennially in a state of protest. Latching on to causes and saying no to everything. I don't think they actually have a cohesive ideology or belief system; more a sense of anger projected on a world that has failed them. So no to new power sources, yet outrage at rising energy costs. Something about the environment as well.

I won't comment on my personal preference for future energy needs, as I work in the industry and am biased towards a certain solution.

Think you're supposed to be biased on the web.

2 stroke · 15-04-2014 09:45PM

visual wrote: »

Wind technology just isn't feasible at present
but nuclear power is.

I cannot understand how anyone can think that. Nuclear power will never pay for the thousands of years of aftercare it leaves behind.

darkpagandeath · 15-04-2014 09:46PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Mr. Fusion is coming out next year

Depends if they can get that Laser to fire multiple times a second and not once or twice a day.

131spanner · 15-04-2014 09:48PM

Keep burning fossil fuels to fook. We're here for a good time, not for a long time :cool:

kneemos · 15-04-2014 09:51PM

Red Pepper wrote: »

why did you edit my post? I don't like the look of that M.

Dunno what happened there.

Nino Brown · 15-04-2014 09:52PM

2 stroke wrote: »

I cannot understand how anyone can think that. Nuclear power will never pay for the thousands of years of aftercare it leaves behind.

That attitude is the problem. Not all nuclear reactors produce mountains of waste. Thorium reactors actually consume nuclear waste. But because people are so anti nuclear it doesn't get the funding it needs to get off the ground.

And nuclear is by far the safest method of power generation. By so far its not even close to any others. I think the inconvenience of disposing of waste is better than the massive deaths caused by oil, coal, gas etc.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/

Energy Source Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr)

Coal – global average 170,000 (50% global electricity)

Coal – China 280,000 (75% China’s electricity)

Coal – U.S. 15,000 (44% U.S. electricity)

Oil 36,000 (36% of energy, 8% of electricity)

Natural Gas 4,000 (20% global electricity)

Biofuel/Biomass 24,000 (21% global energy)

Solar (rooftop) 440 (< 1% global electricity)

Wind 150 (~ 1% global electricity)

Hydro – global average 1,400 (15% global electricity)

Nuclear – global average 90 (17% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush)

Robbo · 15-04-2014 09:56PM

Remember kids: "But it'll effect the soaring value and beautiful amenity of my lovely Bungalow Bliss one off, dependent on the daysul Passat, house" is code for "I'm negotiating a better bribe".

Cookie_Monster · 15-04-2014 10:01PM

Fusion is key longer term but isn't going to be commercially available in the short term.

Short of that micro generation is what we should be looking at now that there are proper smart meters being installed everywhere. If every house had a solar roof and every rural dwelling had a mini wind turbine the base generation capacity would be enormous and distributed far better than current.

BlaasForRafa · 15-04-2014 10:08PM

biko wrote: »

Burn Athlone, that should keep us warm for a couple months.

And Longford, Mullingar and Birr while yer at it.

BASHIR · 15-04-2014 10:10PM

Not only our energy sources, to mention that every daily item is made directly and indirectly from oil.
Every synthetic polymer (plastic) item is refined directly from crude oil. not only that but
shipping these goods burns tons of oil.
I'm not sure how reliable the source is but I read on the guardian before that 1 of the giant shipping containers produce as much emissions in a year than 50 million cars.
This energy source is dwindling and the effects this will have is incomprehensible tbh.

kinklee7 · 15-04-2014 10:15PM

RTE 1 Now !

No Windfarms, No Fracking, No Nuclear Power ?

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