Posted on 08/10/2025 3:11:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Just a reminder for those who can’t do math. Coal will NEVER be clean no amount of scrubbers will capture all the heavy metals in the flue gas let alone the toxic ash which must be contained forever as it never loses its chemical toxicity.
The fly ash alone released up the stack is 100 times as radioactive as what a nuclear reactor would release on a megawatt basis. Nukes also release chemically inert nobel gasses that cannot bind or stay in the human body. Coal fly ash is not only biologically active its heavy metals that bond to bones and flesh at the atomic level.
Then you have the huge ash pile in this case the single concrete pad is holding all the spent fuel from 28 years of reactor power. Then remember that 96% of what is on that pad is still fuel only 4% by mass is fission products that needs to be stored for 300 years. The equivalent ash pile on that pad would be 7000 feet tall and would contain more radioactivity total in Becquerel’s than what is in those concrete canisters.
Coal is a crime against humanity any way you look at it the math is clear, so is the science behind that math.
The amount of spent fuel to power an entire average American per capita electricity use not individual use for 78 years the avg lifespan works out 34 grams per year and 2.65kg over a lifetime. This is at 10g/cm^3 density so 265ml worth smaller than an 8 soup can. That’s per capita which includes all the industrial and commercial electricity use divided by the total USA population individual use would be 1/3 as much but it’s a good mental size image. 96% of that soup can is still fuel if you went to fast spectrum reactors the total mass drops to 120 ish grams as fast reactors have burn ups of 800-900 megawatt days per kilogram with reprocessing tech. 120 grams is 12 cubic centimeters or about the size of two craps dice being 6.8cc each.
Think about this your lifetime per capita electricity use with nukes is two craps dice worth of waste and even that is to big as fast reactors even at 900MWd/kg don’t turn 100% to fission products 20% of the mass at even those burn ups is still U238 and PU2xx aka fuel.
https://x.com/Dr_Keefer/status/1391937720503652356
“It seldom gets dangerously hot...or cold...there so blackouts won’t be as bad as they’d be in other parts of the world.”
that’s good to know: folks will freeze to death in the dark in Ireland from blackouts only a few times ... it reminds me of Martha Raddatz’s comment that only a FEW apartment buildings in Aurora have been taken over by MS-13 ...
“Sometimes I wonder where these RTÉ journalists are living, really. Sure isn’t Ireland, otherwise they would know how little sunlight the country gets.”
Well you would be wrong. Here is the actual mathematical data. KWP is a 30 year dataset and is the average daily kilowatt production of panels over a years time. This calculation includes , night, cloud coverage and seasons all taken from that thirty year period of record. Most of ireland is 2.4 kwh per day or above. It’s not Texas at 5 in West Texas or 4+ in DFW.
Put another way a 15,000 watt system would average 36kWh per day and 13,200 per year in nearly all of Ireland. The average home in Texas with huge AC loads averages 12,000 kWh per year Ireland is more temperate and their AC use would be negligible. Heating is a larger load and heat pumps are 3 to 4 to one kWh in to kWh out in heat. My Mitsubishi splits work with a COP of 2 or better to 15F and don’t go below COP 1 until minus 5F they would work as heat pumps till -13F and only then switch to resistance back up heat.
Climate data for Ireland.
January and February are the coldest months, with mean daily temperatures between 4 and 7 °C (39.2 and 44.6 °F)
Historical Low:
The lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland was -19.1°C (-2.4°F) at Markree Castle, Co. Sligo, on January 16, 1881
^^^^^ Modern Mitsubishi heat pumps would be at full COP performance at -2.4F there is only an emotional argument the facts show that not only could you use solar in Ireland it would make more than the typical Irish household could use even with heating as AC is less efficient than. Heat pumps and Texas homes AC way more than Irish homes ever would heat.
The KWP I posted is for horizontal panels vertical panels would yield more in the winter time vs horizontal panels tilted south. Combining the two or having panels that can be manually pivoted twice per year nearly doubled the KWP over a years time.
https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1844102046871666963
Panels are cheap you can get bifacial panels for under 18 cents per watt. Face them south and set them at your latitude in tilt the at the autumn equinox pivot them vertical facing south a simple hinge mount lets you do this no need for motors its only moved every 6 months and only 22 panels to tilt. For a 15kw large panels system. Or just buy more cheap panels and cover the walls facing south plus your fence lines facing south or east and west. The genius of bifacial panels is they work off reflected light and diffuse light too. Snow can double the output as the reflections off the snow and direct light. Snow also cannot stick to vertical panels it slides off and ice glaze is melted by the heat of the panels themselves they are nearly black after all they heat up quickly in sunlight.
Lepricon spunk. Give the wee fellow a Playboy magazine, and he’ll make all the energy for ye that ye may need, and have a right good time of it, so he will. (Ewwwww! What have a wrought?!)
Ireland is in need of mass deportation, closed borders, and detention facilities for those awaiting deportation.
After that's done, they can move on to deprogramming people, particularly the young, who have been taught to believe in the climate delusions.
Ireland is way ahead.
There are only 5 million native Irish who live on the island. According to surveys, the hoped for number of children for currently fertile native Irish women is between 1 and two, but closer to one. When abortion was legalized, street parties went on for days. The number of hoped for children of a subsaharan refugee woman is five.
It's basically over. Anyone who can do simple math can see that.
There are tens of millions of native English against a few million invaders. England has time to recover (not saying they will).
Ireland is out of time.
A rising tide lifts all boats...said a smart man many years ago.
An Ireland with extra money would buy US goods.
But Ireland will not have extra money to buy anything.
I’ve lived in Ireland, so please don’t push fabricated “data” on me.
Opus?
The European Union is all about programming people with leftist ideology.
I am not a scientist or an expert on wind and solar, so I don’t know where I should stand. Energy companies are investing pretty big in solar, so there must be some viability there, no?
When the gubbermint grants dry up, solar energy dries up.
Yes and I read this about Meta and Enbridge:
Why would Enbridge commit 900 million for solar power?
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