It’s a valid point.
Sounds like they’d need restricted use at the very least.
Otherwise It’s sort of pissing in the faces a bit of people who are struggling with their electricity and heating bills.
They should release the total cost per day per district for the lights.
I hope they put up the lights,
Lead by example
Eamon ‘Scrooge’ Ryan
Is it fuck. Mark my words, there will be as many lights as last year
Here’s your 200 euro peasant… but I’m taking Christmas
They’re LEDs ffs. What you want to derail the Christmas shopping now?
Tell me we’re using LEDs. Please tell me the lights aren’t still incandescent in 2022.
Turn them on but there’s no need to keep them on all night. Bitta compromise needed, knock them off at half ten/ eleven.
Theyve had 6 months to prepare for the winter and the record bills people will recieve and this is what the minister is looking at!!
We are so fucked!!
Most lights (at least in the cities, definitely in my own) are LEDs and they absorb sunlight during the day (even on dull days) and reflect it back when it’s dark.
Lights will go up but they’ll probably just have them switched off earlier at night than usual
Merry Greenmas and a Lettuce new year.
I think Cromwell was the last person to try and cancel Christmas.. Best of luck Eamon
To save money this Christmas, the tree, lights and decorations are going up on Christmas eve and coming down on Stephens Day.
Just like the USA.
I can’t imagine them not doing it. They have to remind us it’s Christmas time to remind us to spend spend spend or the economy will collapse.
My local town had a festival recently and had 3 nights of fireworks displays, listening to the nightly bombardment going off over my apartment was deafening, God help all the Ukrainians in town just got here to escape the russians dealing with kids probably scared shitless by the bangs. Great use of money by whatever genius put it together, we must be in very good financial shape 👍
Ehh obviously we need to look at reducing energy use where we can but it’ll be dark by 5:30 in a few months and our cities will be incredibly bleak without the lights.
I will use the christmas tree lights and no gargoyle green TD will tell me otherwise
So Putin has only gone and stolen Christmas now as well. There’s no need for authors anymore, these stories write themselves.
How does this help anyone pay their bills?
This is just local councils saving money, useless.
Given how low consumption ultrabright LEDs are now, you could quite plausibly run many small arrangements via a small solar-panel charged battery. Even on a cloudy day you can get at least 2-3 hours of illumination.
For trees and the likes where small lighting installations are present, this would mean they could remain lit (if slightly dimmer) for a few hours off the grid.
Wouldn’t suit large power-hungry displays or arrays but many of these could be replaced for ultrabright led alternatives.
There are many ways out of this but of course, we’ll just sit on our hands, hope it goes away and make the peasants’ lives even more miserable.
They’ll still be goading you on with emotions to get you to spend fortunes in town though, there’ll be no change there.
A lot of these lights could be powered by renewables and batteries they’re just LEDs
Whatever it takes.
But Christmas is a time to spread cheer and waste
Yes, because even a energy crisis must be merry and jolly experience for everyone this festival season.
“The children’s smiles will light up Christmas” – Eamonn, probably
Would they be able to use some Solar to power them?
LOL remember a month ago we were talking about new data centers eating up to 70% of the national grid by 2030?
Now we can’t run the fairy lights.
And how much of the country’s annual energy is used by towns and cities Christmas lights? A tiny fraction of a single percent I’d guess. This has zero meaningful impact and has feck all to do with saving energy. It has everything to do with training the population in how to be obedient and be controlled.
If lights are a big issue then mandate that offices/businesses turn off their lights at close of business. If they’re not, then why are we talking about Christmas lights at all?
I am embarrassed at the amount of you gobshites in here who need the shiny shiny for Christmas. Get a fucking grip.
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It’s a valid point.
Sounds like they’d need restricted use at the very least.
Otherwise It’s sort of pissing in the faces a bit of people who are struggling with their electricity and heating bills.
They should release the total cost per day per district for the lights.
I hope they put up the lights,
Lead by example
Eamon ‘Scrooge’ Ryan
Is it fuck. Mark my words, there will be as many lights as last year
Here’s your 200 euro peasant… but I’m taking Christmas
They’re LEDs ffs. What you want to derail the Christmas shopping now?
Tell me we’re using LEDs. Please tell me the lights aren’t still incandescent in 2022.
Turn them on but there’s no need to keep them on all night. Bitta compromise needed, knock them off at half ten/ eleven.
Theyve had 6 months to prepare for the winter and the record bills people will recieve and this is what the minister is looking at!!
We are so fucked!!
Most lights (at least in the cities, definitely in my own) are LEDs and they absorb sunlight during the day (even on dull days) and reflect it back when it’s dark.
Lights will go up but they’ll probably just have them switched off earlier at night than usual
Merry Greenmas and a Lettuce new year.
I think Cromwell was the last person to try and cancel Christmas.. Best of luck Eamon
To save money this Christmas, the tree, lights and decorations are going up on Christmas eve and coming down on Stephens Day.
Just like the USA.
I can’t imagine them not doing it. They have to remind us it’s Christmas time to remind us to spend spend spend or the economy will collapse.
My local town had a festival recently and had 3 nights of fireworks displays, listening to the nightly bombardment going off over my apartment was deafening, God help all the Ukrainians in town just got here to escape the russians dealing with kids probably scared shitless by the bangs. Great use of money by whatever genius put it together, we must be in very good financial shape 👍
Ehh obviously we need to look at reducing energy use where we can but it’ll be dark by 5:30 in a few months and our cities will be incredibly bleak without the lights.
I will use the christmas tree lights and no gargoyle green TD will tell me otherwise
So Putin has only gone and stolen Christmas now as well. There’s no need for authors anymore, these stories write themselves.
How does this help anyone pay their bills?
This is just local councils saving money, useless.
Given how low consumption ultrabright LEDs are now, you could quite plausibly run many small arrangements via a small solar-panel charged battery. Even on a cloudy day you can get at least 2-3 hours of illumination.
For trees and the likes where small lighting installations are present, this would mean they could remain lit (if slightly dimmer) for a few hours off the grid.
Wouldn’t suit large power-hungry displays or arrays but many of these could be replaced for ultrabright led alternatives.
There are many ways out of this but of course, we’ll just sit on our hands, hope it goes away and make the peasants’ lives even more miserable.
They’ll still be goading you on with emotions to get you to spend fortunes in town though, there’ll be no change there.
A lot of these lights could be powered by renewables and batteries they’re just LEDs
Whatever it takes.
But Christmas is a time to spread cheer and waste
Yes, because even a energy crisis must be merry and jolly experience for everyone this festival season.
“The children’s smiles will light up Christmas” – Eamonn, probably
Would they be able to use some Solar to power them?
LOL remember a month ago we were talking about new data centers eating up to 70% of the national grid by 2030?
Now we can’t run the fairy lights.
And how much of the country’s annual energy is used by towns and cities Christmas lights? A tiny fraction of a single percent I’d guess. This has zero meaningful impact and has feck all to do with saving energy. It has everything to do with training the population in how to be obedient and be controlled.
If lights are a big issue then mandate that offices/businesses turn off their lights at close of business. If they’re not, then why are we talking about Christmas lights at all?
I am embarrassed at the amount of you gobshites in here who need the shiny shiny for Christmas. Get a fucking grip.