Peat Briquette RIP

Montage of Feck

The iconic BNM peat Briquette is to be no more from 2024. Such a peaty.

o1s1n

For Pete's sake

completedit

No way! Immediately brings me back to memories of Sunday nights; undone homework, the heat of the fire and the smell of ambrosia Creamed Rice. Over time those Sunday nights began to peter out, nonetheless, I'lll never briquette those days

is_that_so

So Pete Briquette is alive and well!

L1011

is_that_so wrote: »

So Pete Briquette is alive and well!

https://imgur.com/gallery/5tv8avo/new

The fridge magnet I had as a kid fell apart

Ubbquittious

I will miss them. A pity they wont keep them around. Everything is going in the direction of dull boring and expensive heat pumps with smart controls that spy on you.

Bobblehats

The Briquette Bardot of our generation rip.

completedit

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I will miss them. A pity they wont keep them around. Everything is going in the direction of dull boring and expensive heat pumps with smart controls that spy on you.

I honestly read pity as peaty.

piplip87

Jaysus for a second there I thought you where talking about the Rats band member.

Real Donald Trump

I'll miss auld Peat

theguzman

An entire industry destroyed and closed down by the far-Left Green party, the same as our Sugar industry destroyed under German demands, our sugar now comes from Germany using sugar cane grown on destroyed Amazon rainforest. But jeez lets all put in heatpumps and pay €2.5k a year in electricity coming at the long end of a gas pipeline from Russia.

Yeah, like a few briquettes are going to bring on the end of the world..

Sinister, really..

josip

And I popped in to AH looking for some mental relief from some of the Covid thread posts

Del2005

theguzman wrote: »

An entire industry destroyed and closed down by the far-Left Green party, the same as our Sugar industry destroyed under German demands, our sugar now comes from Germany using sugar cane grown on destroyed Amazon rainforest. But jeez lets all put in heatpumps and pay €2.5k a year in electricity coming at the long end of a gas pipeline from Russia.

After the amber alerts from the electricity network last week we don't even have enough capacity from gas because its all renewable now. But digging the least efficient fossil fuel out of the ground isn't answer either.

theguzman

The midlands around Longford, Westmeath and Offaly are the poorest parts of Ireland and I am talking serious poverty here, BnM provided good paying work for generations there, bogs aren't worth tuppence, big holes of swamp which are not productive or useful. The Green party have condemned the midlands to an even worse future.

If everyone on the island of Ireland collectively committed suicide tomorrow morning it would have absolutely zero impact on the global weather! Look up a globe we are at 53 deg latitude and the weather here will nearly always be terrible.

Your Face

I'll miss them - they were handy.

Hopefully BNM will carry through on the planned restoration of the peat-lands after harvesting has ceased

theguzman

Your Face wrote: »

I'll miss them - they were handy.

Hopefully BNM will carry through on the planned restoration of the peat-lands after harvesting has ceased

Sitka Spruce plantations an even worse blight on nature.

Cheensbo

RIP lad




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colm_mcm

Good riddance. BNM are responsible for fleecing the peat lands, and using any sort of solid fuel is not environmentally friendly.

Aongus Von Bismarck

An excellent idea, and one that probably should have happened a few years ago. I know many people in Ireland still use them, but the destruction of the Irish peat lands for low quality fuel is a relic of a different era. There should also be a ban on households harvesting turf.

Dempo1

Have they not announced production will continue until 2024?

Cody montana

Great news for our bogs.

emeldc

I heard this about the briquettes on the radio earlier and it reminded of when I was a school going teenager in the mid 70's when life was much simpler. No central heating, no double glazing, just an open fire in the sitting room. We were fcukin' freezin' most of the time! I had a well paid Saturday job as a settler in a betting office that paid £16 for the day. As cash was tight at home I offered to give my mother £4 every saturday. She wouldn't take the money but asked if I would buy 4 bales of briquettes instead. I think they were less than £1 each. I was happy with that and continued to buy them even throughout the summer months so we were always well stocked up for the winter. Those were the days! Sorry for bangin' on, it's just a nice memory for me.

_Brian

Everything has its day and the day of peat extraction has gone.

We’ve absolutely destroyed a vast natural resource. Something like 80% is beyond returning to its former state.

With work it should again start storing carbon and storing water that it’s supposed to rather than flooding happening.

Aongus Von Bismarck

theguzman wrote: »

An entire industry destroyed and closed down by the far-Left Green party, the same as our Sugar industry destroyed under German demands, our sugar now comes from Germany using sugar cane grown on destroyed Amazon rainforest. But jeez lets all put in heatpumps and pay €2.5k a year in electricity coming at the long end of a gas pipeline from Russia.

Ireland's Climate Action Plan which sounded the death knell for the peat harvesting industry was an initiative of the last FG Government. Richard Bruton I believe.

Still, it was a misguided attempt to get a dig in at the Green Party. Always worth a few thanks.

screamer

We’ll be left freezing our butts off yet, ban solid fuels and we don’t have enough electricity as it is, so see how well your heat pumps work in power cuts. My problem is not with progress, it’s the fact that there’s nothing to progress to, so we’re just putting ourselves in a precarious situation. Mad stuff really these stupid policies on the dankest Little Rock of an island we call Ireland.
The blueshirts, ironically fitting cause we’ll all be a nice shade of it with the cold.

saabsaab

I'll miss them really they gave a nice flame burned well but I won't get too fired up about it like some. Hope new jobs are made in those areas affected, solar farms, carbon capture etc etc.

Mules

screamer wrote: »

The blueshirts, ironically fitting cause we’ll all be a nice shade of it with the cold.

:D

.anon.

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Still, it was a misguided attempt to get a dig in at the Green Party. Always worth a few thanks.

The 'far-left' Green Party, no less. As misguided as two short planks.

beerguts

screamer wrote: »

We’ll be left freezing our butts off yet, ban solid fuels and we don’t have enough electricity as it is, so see how well your heat pumps work in power cuts. My problem is not with progress, it’s the fact that there’s nothing to progress to, so we’re just putting ourselves in a precarious situation. Mad stuff really these stupid policies on the dankest Little Rock of an island we call Ireland.
The blueshirts, ironically fitting cause we’ll all be a nice shade of it with the cold.

100% correct sir. Even though it isn't common here in Ireland we can get depressions without any substantial wind for weeks at a time. I would be afraid that we could have our grid collapse from this and if it goes down like that it can be very difficult to get it back and running quickly when conditions improve. Bring back coal or let's start planning for Nuclear.

colm_mcm

beerguts wrote: »

Stick a barbed wire stick up your hole. Without BnM peat harvesting for fuel we wouldn't have had the capability of rolling out the electricity network in the 50s and 60s. Little revisionist ****s like you haven't a clue how important harvesting the peatlands was.
Look at the skill sets they helped create in mechanical and engineering works. It is fair to say that the agri equipment manufacturing wouldn't have got off the ground without BnM and its trades.
So you and other little know it all **** stains can **** up. And choke on your mechanically harvested avocado that was air freighted in.

I think you’ll find they weren’t running the lower stations on briquettes and that the rest of the country has exited the 50s a long time ago.

Kaybaykwah

Has supply peatered out?

bassy

There going to be missed just like peats world of electronics R.I.P.

BorneTobyWilde

I Peaty the fool who thinks he can ban Peat .

Amirani

.anon. wrote: »

The 'far-left' Green Party, no less. As misguided as two short planks.

The same "far-left" Green Party that many on the left call "Fine Gael on bikes".

It's gas* stuff altogether.



*now that the peat is gone anyway

rossie1977

theguzman wrote: »

An entire industry destroyed and closed down by the far-Left Green party, the same as our Sugar industry destroyed under German demands, our sugar now comes from Germany using sugar cane grown on destroyed Amazon rainforest. But jeez lets all put in heatpumps and pay €2.5k a year in electricity coming at the long end of a gas pipeline from Russia.

Green party far left..holy f**k

rossie1977

Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Jong-Il, Ceaușescu, Castro......Eamon Ryan

ongarite

Cody montana wrote: »

Great news for our bogs.

Peat harvesting on industrial scale is incredibly bad for the environment.
The land has to constantly pumped out to dry it out.
Millions of tonnes of carbon released during harvesting.

As a solid fuel its awful. The least efficient fuel to burn, much lower calorific value than coal and releasing 90% more CO2 when burned and creates way more ash than any other solid fuel.

1874

screamer wrote: »

We’ll be left freezing our butts off yet, ban solid fuels and we don’t have enough electricity as it is, so see how well your heat pumps work in power cuts. My problem is not with progress, it’s the fact that there’s nothing to progress to, so we’re just putting ourselves in a precarious situation. Mad stuff really these stupid policies on the dankest Little Rock of an island we call Ireland.
The blueshirts, ironically fitting cause we’ll all be a nice shade of it with the cold.

If done correctly, airtightness and insulation (external imo), done correctly, heat pumps are a good way to go, a huge potential saving in cost if done right with Coefficients (COP) of x, lets say 2.5-3.5, you are getting that much (or whatever the COP is) 2-5 to 3-5 times energy usage per per kwh, so possibly 3 times cheaper than what you are paying per unit of electricity charged.

Those BNM briquettes were junk, needed a firelighter to get them going and never a roaring flame. Now turf brought in from the bog was a different matter, once sufficiently dried the heat generated was something else. Even if they burned up in a hurry. Nostalgia from my childhood footing the stuff, different times however I'm sorry to see the peat bogs being phased out.

beerguts

colm_mcm wrote: »

I think you’ll find they weren’t running the lower stations on briquettes and that the rest of the country has exited the 50s a long time ago.

You are either very poor at trolling or you have never been outside the M50.
A good day in the bog turning or footing turf might make you appreciate BnM and its efforts to wipe that hellish landscape from the Island. Alas they were betrayed by easily triggered skinny jean wearing lads with a degree in something or another

Paddygreen

Little black bricks of climate sin. Mother Earth sheds a tear every time one is thrown on a fire.

josip

Vandalism on a national scale was what went on there by Bord Na Mona.

OldRio

Paddygreen wrote: »

Little black bricks of climate sin. Mother Earth sheds a tear every time one is thrown on a fire.

She'll be crying buckets tonight as I throw a few more on the fire. Cold night it is.

saabsaab

Deleted User wrote: »

Those BNM briquettes were junk, needed a firelighter to get them going and never a roaring flame. Now turf brought in from the bog was a different matter, once sufficiently dried the heat generated was something else. Even if they burned up in a hurry. Nostalgia from my childhood footing the stuff, different times however I'm sorry to see the peat bogs being phased out.

You giving them a bad name see below


'Peat briquettes remain the domestic fuel of choice for many as they are economical, slow-burning, give off tremendous heat and little smoke. ... This domestic fuel is often marketed as an environmentally friendly and safer fuel because they typically have a low ash and low sulphur content'

machiavellianme

o1s1n wrote: »

For Pete's sake

Justice for Pete!
What an icon, he'll be missed, which is more than can be said for the Green Party...

washiskin

Jayziz.... I thought ye were all on about the guitarist from the Boomtown Rats! Phew.

colm_mcm

saabsaab wrote: »

You giving them a bad name see below


'Peat briquettes remain the domestic fuel of choice for many as they are economical, slow-burning, give off tremendous heat and little smoke. ... This domestic fuel is often marketed as an environmentally friendly and safer fuel because they typically have a low ash and low sulphur content'

All the particulate ****e that they emit is far from environmentally friendly.

Dr Turk Turkelton

rossie1977 wrote: »

Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Jong-Il, Ceaușescu, Castro......Eamon Ryan

Eamon Ryan...Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Jong-Il, Ceaușescu, Castro.....
Imo

SouthWesterly

What memories it brings back. Getting my fingers cut to bits by the binding straps.

Rubberchikken

The green party - a complete and utter waste of effort.
Useless morons who never actually think any of their plans through properly.