Data centres keep opening, peat power plants keep closing, NIMBY’s don’t want any new wind or solar energy, shortage of natural gas on the global market means there’s energy shortage warnings for this winter, when will Ireland really embrace change?
Data centres keep opening, peat power plants keep closing, NIMBY’s don’t want any new wind or solar energy, shortage of natural gas on the global market means there’s energy shortage warnings for this winter, when will Ireland really embrace change?
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GET THAT DEER OFF OUR LAND!!!
There will be no deer if we don’t start mass adoption of renewables
This sign has been brought to you by the same kind of people who poison eagles and fly tip in the bog
The bit that pisses me off most is that’s not what agrarian solar farms looks like. They looks like this:
[https://www.nrdc.org/stories/made-shade-promise-farming-solar-panels](https://www.nrdc.org/stories/made-shade-promise-farming-solar-panels)
Shade for animals crops that don’t want direct light. Reduced evaporation from waterways. Transparent solar panels on top of greenhouses. We’re talking increased yields, reduced overall water usage, and generating power that you can sell. Depending on your crop, you’d be stupid not to do it.
Not to mention, the crops cool the solar panels, increasing their efficiency.
God forbid that we remove all fossil fuel power and go to renewables like solar and nuclear haha fucking idiots.
Ok no electricity for you so.
I don’t understand one thing, if every new development is turned down. Where will you build?
Deer are a strange choice to use considering we already need to cull them every year.
One funeral at a time unfortunately
I think it makes out that the solar farm will be built on a meadow and would threaten that. So if that’s the case they have a point.
Maybe wind turbines would suit them better. 🙂
Driving through the countryside last week and the number of signs posted saying ” no turbines” ” no wind farms” was disappointing to say the least. I don’t mind them at all. Do these people prefer nuclear?
This sort of NIMBYism is gonna become a major problem in the near future as we try to reach out renewable energy targets.
We could make the world better, but the oil and coal industry said they’d give me money if I said we shouldn’t
Why would anyone object to that? There are fields of panels near me and you wouldn’t even know they’re there they’re lower than the hedges
If we don’t stop using fossil fuels there’s not going to be any wildlife left to protect in the first place
Where i live in midlands UK we have several solar farms in fields near us. Its hard to even tell they are there. On the other hand the two blocks of 80m wind turbines can be seen for 6+ miles
Christ almighty.
If we could burn gobshites for energy, we’d have enough reserves for decades
Sure we’ve had 15 years of constant judicial review challenge to wind projects – why would solar be any different?
My aul fella and a friend of his were talking shite about how unsightly wind farms were and how they ruin the view, and shouldn’t be allowed, even the offshore ones.
I pipped in that the alternative is a coal fired power station, and they have to pick one. We’ve all seen what an actual power station looks like, they’re fucking ugly looming monstrosities of buildings. Give me a solar or wind farm any day.
These ones that don’t like the look of the thing tend to forget what the current solution is, they might even think that electricity magically comes out of the wall.
Present it as a “would you rather” situation and there are only two options (three if you want to turn the lights off)
I’m very curious what these people’s ideal future looks like though. Forest fires everywhere, constant drought or heavy rain/flooding, strong winds etc.. no freaking deer anymore?
Anyone I knew from Clonea Power was always a few screws short tbh 🤷♀️ not surprised the concept of renewable electricity is too advanced for them, they only just grasped the wheel
Imagine the poor graphic designer struggling to make solar power look apocalyptic. “Arite so I made the sky look stormy and the grass look yellow, other than that I’m out of ideas lads”
I heard in Frence the government will pay to construct barns for farmers as long as they can fit solar panels to the roof and use the energy for the grid. Win-win. We separately need to roll out more renewable, I’d love to see some raallt big ambitious projects.
The same thing is happening in the UK. The government has effectively banned onshore wind farms due to the NIMBYs.
Part of the problem is the myth that the green fields of Ireland are a natural landscape, they’re not.
Natural landscape would be covered in trees. So if we are going to not have a natural landscape anyway by having the country covered in fields there may aswell be solar panels there.
If they were going to chop down a forest to put up solar panels then it would be reasonable to argue against it.
They’ll probably win as well.
People have way too much power to reject planning permission in this country.
There should be special requirements for renewable energy plants and affordable housing so you’d need a pretty substantial reason to reject them.
These are the same kinds of people that’ll bitch about the price of petrol and heating constantly.
Who prints this shit?
We need to start culling stupid.
We need to get as much out there as possible. Every roof we can and some large installs like this. We also need ESB Networks to yet a big kick up the arse as even if you build something like this you could be waiting months to actually get it connected to the grid.
Solar energy is alright, but nuclear is way better
If whoever put this sign up wants the solar panels to go somewhere else, where could we put them? It would have to be somewhere with no natural beauty where people wouldn’t care that there were solar panels or windmills around? And please don’t say Longford
5 mins later complains their esb bill is so high
They are happy to build their towns around peat burning stations. But no to clean energy. Emissions free clean energy is where their toxic smog clogged lungs say no more…..
If it’s up to the nimby, half the population of ireland lives on the street and they go back to burning coal.
Absolute clowns this is cringe
I guarantee the people who don’t want solar or wind farms, would happily accept free solar panels for their roofs if it meant no more electricit bills.
In fairness we’ve however many hundreds of thousands of South facing roofs that can be covered before we start looking at fields and rural areas.
We are so fucked for winter lads
That is indeed the future I want.
Solar panels and wind mills provide some sort of hope that we’re actually starting to make some change away from fossil fuels which are turning the planet into a hell scape.
I’d rather solar panels than not being able to pay for heating as fossil fuel prices continue to increase (as they should).
You are right, turf and coal are the futur!
The ammount of idiots against windfarms is about the same as ammount of idiots that block any new housing or infrastructure project that benefits public transport or cycling.