"Green" policies are destroying this country

I was wondering why I'd never heard of that journal. And guess what, they're a predatory journal. Pay enough money and you too can be published. So nope, not a legit journal.

"In 2014 there was a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, Advances in Anthropology, with the outgoing editor-in-chief saying of the publisher "For them it was only about making money. We were simply their 'front'.""

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Research_Publishing

Most journals are "Pay enough money and you too can be published". They're all at it in engineering (IEEE, IET, etc). Ask any PhD student. It's the bane of their lives. Do a bunch of research and pay to share it, instead of receiving payments for their research. The catch is that to be conferred with their PhD, they need to have a certain number of publications. That doesn't discredit the research.

Anyone intending to carry out important research is first going to pitch for funding to whoever they feel will be most interested in their findings. No different to a business approching a bank for funding for a business proposal where they would be required to do a SWOT analysis.

Any business is going to highlight the strength and opportunities while playing down the weakness and threats of their proposal in order to get that funding, and I doubt anyone pitching a research proposal for funding to those they feel would be most interested would do differently in either their proposal or final analysis.Of course that works both ways, but so does the research when it does not suit the narrative.

For the E.U. you have only to look at the proposal to reduce pesticides by 50% which would greatly cut food production without any alternatives being identified. Especially for glyphosate where the E.U. were attempting to push their proposal through based on a 2015 WHO research that it was "probably carcinogenic to humans" when their own European Food Safety Authority and the European Chemical Agency was telling them it was not. Same with biomass from which the E.U.derives 60% of its "green" energy and regards it as carbon neutral when research by even green advocacy groups such as Ember and the Natural Resource Defense Council show it to be anything but. The NRDC report found that burning wood "at the smokestack emits more CO2 than coal for every unit of electricity produced". But then when it comes to massaging the figures to suit the narrative we are not shy either. Not happy with one such plant here we are now going to start operating another in Mayo that will burn 200,000 ton of wood chip annuallly after it being shipped to Killybegs in Donegal and then transported by road to Killala in Mayo.

I would also love to see where the research came from that justified the Irish Green Party throwing hissy fits of collapsing the government if they didn`t get their way on culling cattle because whoever compiled it certainly doesn`t appear to have wasted much time identifying the weakness and threats. If they did then they were ignored because they didn`t suit the narrative.

Publication is not a hard requirement particularly with PhDs funded by industry rather than EPSRC but the pressure to publish is a major reason I got out of academia. Hated the way enviornmentalism was often shoehorned into papers somewhere (e.g. in reference to reduced power consumption).

I wonder where the device on which that sobering position was posted hailed from...it certainly wasn't Ireland

What exactly are you working on? PC? Dell? Mobile/tablet? If indeed it is bolted together there (and I doubt it is), the components for it sure as hell are mostly imported

Hailstorms are not extremely rare, it's peak season around now in Ireland, we get them all year in Ireland, and when the severe ones hit in June, July or August damage is localised to a small area usually damaging crops (exception August 1843), therefore they seldom get widespread attention, though with the spread of video recording and social media, they can make it to the news feeds for about 5 minutes before the next click bait item arrives. Even if you regard them as a 1 in 100 year event, that's still a 1% chance of a severe event happening in any year, and just like trailer parks in the US seem to attract tornado's, solar panels attract hailstorms. For anyone with solar panels in Ireland, hail damage is not covered by warranty, make sure your home insurance policy covers the solar panels.

Now, who long and how much power does it take to recharge them?

He probably bought it in a Limerick shop and it arrived by stork.