No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Yea use to deal with all the multiples in a previous life. Dunnes abs Tesco were absolute disgrace. Everything down to cents. Change their minds. Put suppliers under severe pressure . No loyalty.

I would never darken a Dunnes stores even since.

supervalu we’re ok but following the trend in later years.

Lidl and Aldi were tough negotiations but one the deal was done they honoured the contract 100% and everything paid on time

The abrupt end of the peat production will definitely go down as one of the stupidest decisions ever made by an Irish government. And anyone that thinks it’s helping the environment knows nothing about the environment and even less about what’s actually powering this country.

I was thinking similar yesterday regarding Data centers, encouraged to save the environment and trees by going paperless and then to hear of the massive amountd of energy needed for cooling the servers. OK if renewable el plants were up and running - whenever that will be !!

At the very least those affected by job losses in the peat industry should be at the ports protesting loudly.

There is alot of Irish jokes in Oz. The funny thing is we just embraced the racism and called them Kerry man jokes.

No, neither Shannonbridge or Lanesborough have been dismantled yet. There’s rumours among BNM staff that there have been engineers in looking at them to see what it would take to get them running again if needed. The maintenance and upkeep done on them was minimal enough in the past few years they were working as it was always suspected the close was coming soon.

The bigger problem is BNM only have a limited supply of peat which is being kept for briquettes so if they were to start them up again the peat would have to be shipped in from abroad in the short term.

You’d have to think there’s no way that could pay but they can’t let the lights go out either so there could be no choice.

The more information that comes out on it all the more idiotic the people making the decisions look. And as I said earlier it was all to keep a few votes from a minority of sheltered city people that think it’s trendy to try and save the planet when they know nothing about how every electrical item they use on a daily basis is powered.

I heard there is a ship in Dublin port with 2 generators hooked up to the grid to keep the cities power level up to cope with all the data centers set up within the capital. The people in the know are predicting the power requirement for these centers could reached 70% of the countries power consumption. If we don't conform to their demands then the big multinationals will pull the pin and go elsewhere. Some mess then.

You'd be talking needed hundreds of 1000's of tons, a million tons roughly each was what they where using, maybe biomass could be used, but of course the forestry sector has been hopped too by the sitting government, along with this the planning process for most renewables is taking years and don't even mention a.d plants you can't be having those, I'd just love to know where do our esteemed judges who are simultaneously shutting down peat plants to save the environment while denying planning for renewables think the power is going to come from?

Yea I’d imagine it would have to be mainly biomass, until next summer at least, and then they could harvest more Irish peat! I can’t see it happening but sometimes needs must.

Knowing Sweet FA about cryptocurrency and mining, maybe someone here might be able to enlighten me. I have a 20kw hydro turbine that runs steady all year round and most of the output is sold back to the grid at approx 5.5 pence per Kw. The only things connected to this turbine are a sheep house and domestic dwelling. The sheep house has a few lights in it and a bit of electric use when using clippers or something like that, no welders or anything. The house has low energy use as it's well insulated and geothermal heats the underfloor heating.

This leaves quite a bit of spillage back to the grid, about 150,000 Kwh per year. Electricity prices are rising and hitting around 19pence per Kw at present. Would there be any opportunity to either install a few mainframe computers into a shed and let them run for people to mine for bitcoin or less energy hungry coins or let people put in their own computers into the shed and charge them for electric at say 18pence per Kw for example.

How much energy or power do these things use on a daily basis, or is 20Kw even too small for something like that? I'm under no contractual obligation to send anything back to the grid, I can utilise all electricity generated on farm/home if I wish. Just another random thought, but if anyone had an idea if this is a potential runner or not I'd appreciate it.

Fill the shed with cannabis plants n heaters!

Who voted for eamon Ryan?

I got caught with a fleck bull on red card before and the seller said roscrea would take him when he needed to be culled, but they didn't, sold him for very small money to a dealer who then couldn't get him killed anywhere either

That crowd in Meath Euro farms take them the last time I enquired.

Is splash plate slurry spreading banned from January 2024?