They're not the Blue Shirts. Irish nationalism is utterly pozzed and is just different brands of drug dealers socialists who fully support importing Africans.
Retards need to stop glazing Irish nationalism. The guys complaining about immigrants are more likely to get shot by the remnants of the various IRA/IRNA factions than supported by them.
As I understand it, ever since that time, a shocking amount of investment was spent diverting the original nationalist groups towards the great globalist lie - as is always the case, can't let rogue elements who might revolt stick around, lest they kick things off all over again. Fittingly, they've been hoping to use these now-pozzed factions to try to blunt any attempt at pushback - but we've gone so far past the point of containment that that shit's really not going to work too much longer - Ireland isn't the UK, people are already at the breaking point, and you're not going to bedazzle them with incrementalism at this point, considering what's happened in the last year, but understanding cause and effect seems to be a lost art for their elected officials.
I do not, for the life of me, understand why they think this constant gaslighting shit is going to work for them long-term.
teriyakiburns said:
If we want energy independence from foreign hydrocarbons, then the solution is to extract our own until we can build out enough nuclear to replace them, not building out a mass of unreliable, expensive, short-lived, enviromentally catastrophic "solutions" that are worse than the problem they're meant to solve.
There's 2 additional parts you left out, but I will cheerfully add to: the issues of scalability, and upgradability.
Scalability:
Scalability is essentially the ability of a power plant to generate more power. Let's say you have a big ol' power plant, and you need to generate more power to provide power to an additional city that was just added to your region. Maybe this is a Saint George situation where it left its original municipality, or maybe it's just a small town on the grow that now desperately needs to adapt. Either way, you need more power.
For some plants, this is very easy. Nuclear plants and the various hydrocarbon-based plants can put in additional generators and the equipment to maintain them. I'm obviously simplifying, but you get the idea: you expand the land they have available a bit and you expand the plants, and you can call it a day. In extreme situations, you can just casually pop up another plant entirely if demand is just that high, even if the facilities themselves are very large, you can pop 'em down them basically anywhere that terrain allows.
For location-locked power plants, namely hydroelectric and geothermic, they essentially have fixed production capability. There's ways to improve capacity, such as with additional turbines for hydroelectric, and additional storage capacity for emergencies, but there's a point where realistically, you can't expand further, and you can't just plop down more of them wherever you need, they need to also be on rivers/sources of thermal heat, so they're also restricted by what the environment itself provides.
Meanwhile, Solar and Wind have inverse scalability. Getting power out of them at scale requires gigantic numbers of wind turbines or solar cells, enormous numbers of batteries to store the excess charge for emergencies, and they require very specific environments to be effective. This essentially means you get less for more space, and if you want more of them, they also require multiple backups because they're inherently more prone to downtime under the best of circumstances. Creating big wind farms or solar facilities uses way more real estate than plonking down a more conventional power plant, require way more infrastructure to keep them going, and with way more downtime for maintenance and repairs. If you compare solar or wind to literally every form of conventional power plant, it isn't even a contest which method is more cost-effective and better for the environment, and it's not the so-called green energy picks.
Even more crazy, Solar and Wind have issues that the conventional bois don't have in this regard. One particularly big power system solar developed involves the use of CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) to reflect huge amounts of sunlight onto charging rigs on a big tower. The problem is that anything remotely in range of the beam scatter effectively can get death ray'd. Birds, bats, and bugs getting cooked alive by this is common, but there's also cases of aircraft taking damage from getting too close. Similarly, seabound wind turbines - a solution commonly pitched for the damn things - effectively turn the area they're set up into a no-go zone.
Upgradability:
This is my favorite drum to bang on when it comes to electricity generation, because it's one my mom, an actual environmental activist (as in, the local kind) used to break out to deal with climate psychopaths (along with
comparing them to the Harold Camping Rapturists). But basically, technology can advance, and that's one area that conventional power generation methods have absolutely stomped green energy on and taken their lunch money, because while these dead-enders have barely advanced in thirty years, more conventional power plants have found ways to advance by leaps and bounds.
Even the dirtiest power generation methods, like coal,
can have their emissions captured now and turn that shit into graphene - functionally solving one of their core emission problems. Hydrocarbon Fuels, their refinement, and their systems of can be constantly improved, to burn hotter, longer, more efficiently, and for specific needs. This is a never-ending drive because everyone involved benefits, from the power plants themselves to the companies providing the fuel. Nuclear has long since solved problems with waste material, generating a tiny fraction of what they once did and improving their efficiency by leaps and bounds. Even the landlocked power plants have seen advancements in how to recap thermal energy and re-use it or power secondary turbines off the initial ones to provide reserve power in case a main turbine needs to be offlined for repair.
Solar meanwhile? Improvements in generative capacity, improvements in battery capacity, certainly, but nothing that's as game-changing as being able to reclaim a vital material from literal fucking exhaust while cutting the dangerous parts to the bare minimum, or reducing waste material to effectively nil. Wind is even worse, as the improvements in generative power have come at the cost of requiring advanced materials and the new turbines still constantly break down and need constant maintenance.
There has been basically no meaningful improvement in the tech for solar or wind in a decade, whereas you're seeing things that vastly improve reliability, make the whole process cleaner, and make the whole process more efficient have been happening for years. The "Green" power systems were less efficient from the sound of the gun, throw in upgrades and
most of them can't even compete in terms of environmental friendliness once upgrades are factored in.
