“Not sure Tom, but sure I said I’d get out of the house since the weather is nice”
“Ah yeah, how are the kids ?”
“They’re grand now, Colm has a new girlfriend”
“Lovely, anyway, I’m off , I’ll be back next week to give out about planning permission, if the weather is nice”
Storyboys on
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many Karen-shaped heads in one photo.
Nearly every single one of them the quintessential Karen.
InfectedAztec on
Geniuenely thought this was a skit.
Franken_moisture on
Down with this sort of thing
2_Pints_Of_Rasa on
All of those people look exactly how you’d expect.
SirJoePininfarina on
We have a major problem with our attitude to change in this country. Literally nothing worth doing is unopposed, there’s this assumption that change is bad but the same people complain nothing ever changes.
Anywhere that’s consistently improving things for their citizens does so by assuming change is good and embracing it. Trying out new power sources, trying out new infrastructure, using technology to solve problems.
Whereas this shower of numbskulls are opposing a FUCKING BATTERY simply existing near them.
TheFreemanLIVES on
If ever there were a Valley of the squinting windows…
RevTurk on
Ireland says no to the services we use. We need to find ways to provide services without infrastructure. Surely to god, with modern technology they can magic power into my TV without needing cables. Why hasn’t transporter technology been used in toilets yet? That Colm Meaney fella invented them decades ago.
rokevoney on
Fearful peasants.
FlukyS on
“Stop that thing we have no idea about” – drives a car with loads of things they have no idea about, uses electricity delivered by tech they have no idea about, uses a phone with software they have no idea about, eats food they have idea what is in it, takes medicine they have no idea about, goes to doctors giving advice they have no idea about. It’s baffling how many people are proud to say they are against stuff they just don’t know anything about. If their position was “we want to preserve green areas” I could get it or if they were saying protect some endangered animal, sure but their suggestion here is just that is “untested”. What the fuck do they want? Scientific papers? There are loads of papers providing more than enough info to prove that these batteries are cost effective at storing power with the downside that they can’t discharge quickly, that’s it. No safety concerns from any peer reviewed papers, no environmental or safety concerns. I really hate this shit.
Tadhg on
What’s their issue with the battery storage? Why *is*it being trialled in Buncrana of all places?
ThatGuy98_ on
This is what happens when you make everybody’s opinion equally valid.
nut-budder on
You know I have a bit of sympathy for people who go all NIMBY on things that are genuinely big visual changes like a massive windfarm or a skyscraper. I get that the disruption of seeing a dramatic change in the landscape you’re used to is hard for some people to deal with. I disagree but I can empathise.
This however is just pure twattery. Fear of something you don’t understand and basing your opinion on whatever conspiratorial lunatic you can find to back you up.
stiik on
I’d love to hear that dogs opinion on large infrastructure changes in the area
JealousInevitable544 on
How do we know the dog is opposed?
It looks like he’s being held there against his will.
rom9 on
Aah yes, putting kids in the front for emotional blackmail. Jaysus, nothing will ever change in this country.
Apprehensive_Ratio80 on
Half the people in that photo are children ffs when did it become popular to bring your kids to protests 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Anyway you factor out the children who probably have no idea what they are doing there and certainly no idea about dangers or lack thereof of energy storage and you have about a dozen ppl so nothing major to worry about
AsanteSane on
I’m from Buncrana and this place has a serious problem of people just wanting absolutely nothing to change or improve but then continue to complain about the town not getting any business or development opportunities
Table_Shim on
Two thoughts
1. Nimbyism is an unwanted effect of a very positive thing, full rights to publicly declare opinions on development.
– You do not want the opposite of this in the same way you don’t want the country choked with effective nimby campaigns.
2. Lodging submissions on proposed developments does not automatically mean anything, be it an extension or a battery facility, will be denied. They have to find valid environmental or planning procedure mishaps for their rationale
Countcraicula on
Despite opposition from local moron groups…
Own-Beach3238 on
Everyone of them including most of the kids most likely a battery in their pocket 🤖
alfbort on
Iron-air batteries are actually safer than other types of batteries. No/very low risk of fire, non-toxic, no risk of overcharging etc. It’s still early days for iron-air batteries but everything points to them being very safe and well suited for grid-energy storage of intermittent energy sources like wind or solar.
It’s funny because traditional battery storage are more dangerous than iron-air batteries if something goes wrong. These are probably the same people who think 5g cell towers cause cancer.
Peil on
Medieval peasant brain has returned to modern societies in a big way
Content-Carrot1833 on
State of them dragging their kids out for the photo op. Pure fucking gowls.
norodaisy on
>Key Concerns:
* Potential harmful radiation
* Contamination and pollution of local streams that our animals rely on
* Destruction of wildlife habitats in the forestry area planned for deforestation
* Devaluation of our homes and land
Radiation? If people are concerned about being a few kilometers away from a non-ionising EMF source they should rip the wiring out of their homes.
As for the environment thing, they’re felling commercial Sitka to build this… and the site is also 1km from a large quarry. They probably should be protesting that too.
garygunning1984 on
Not saying it’s right but you look at the high speed rail infrastructure china has put in place recently and they just plough through
Birdinhandandbush on
Simple solution.
We pull all electrical cables out of Buncrana. We pull all 3G/4G masts and do not install 5G (god forbid).
“No future energy storage systems” has to be the most fucking backwards bonkers statement I’ve seen in a long time.
Back to the stone age with ye fucking muck donkeys.
Kharanet on
Missing one that says council rejects because it will change the neighborhood’s characteristics
Ignoring the NIMBYs for a second here, one GIGAWATT hour? This thing will store energy for up to one hundred hours?!? Can we have ten more of these and achieve complete energy independence, please?
YoIronFistBro on
This is the life cycle of only about 10% of large projects in Ireland. Most of them don’t get started _regardless_ of what NIMBYs think.
spairni on
I’m a bog dweller and very rural in my habits but this shit annoys me in the last few years around me there’s been groups opposing windfarms, solar farms, 5g masts, anaerobic digest, brown people living in their communities, social housing, and flood defence work
Like I’ve my criticisms of the ownership model of infrastructure projects, I’d rather see the state or the communities own them but all the opposition is just a knee jerk new = bad from people who the next day will complain about the lack of investment in the area before they go back to opposing anything new.
About the only new things that didn’t get opposed was a new McDonald’s last year
BXL-LUX-DUB on
Are these real locals or ‘concerned locals’?
EchoVolt on
It’s literally based on rust. I’m pretty sure Buncrana knows plenty about rust. It’s been tried and tested for a very long time.
whooo_me on
I’ve no problem whatsoever with people objecting.
I do have a problem with unfounded objections being taken seriously. If any individuals or groups can provide data from any reputable source that indicates an issue with a new development, they must be listened to. If not, the objection should be promptly & summarily binned. You don’t delay a project on the basis of “Well, I don’t know there isn’t a problem…”
scannerdarkley on
If these people had a voice as loud as this, back in the day, we’d have no:
* **Electricity:** “power lines are dangerous, heavy electricity falls out of lines and kills people”
* **Internet:** “the modem noises are satanic”
* **Mobile phones:** “~~2G/3G/4G/~~ 5G masts are emitting radiation”
* **Batteries:** “We don’t want them, because….reasons”. All while ignoring all the batteries in their phones, laptops, cars even the airpods attached to their stupid faces.
These people would burn themselves to death if they heard that Fire Alarms have radioactive elements in them.
Margrave75 on
Also those locals:
buT wHy wON’t sOMonE inVESt hERe
SirMike_MT on
Reminds me of the gobshites who opposed the the Apple data centre in Athenry when the place needs the boost
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That battery could open a portal to a hell dimension as far as we know. Is it worth the risk?
[Just look at the design](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/hellraiser/images/2/2b/Box.png/revision/latest?cb=20160204114708)
“What’s today’s protest mary?”
“Not sure Tom, but sure I said I’d get out of the house since the weather is nice”
“Ah yeah, how are the kids ?”
“They’re grand now, Colm has a new girlfriend”
“Lovely, anyway, I’m off , I’ll be back next week to give out about planning permission, if the weather is nice”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many Karen-shaped heads in one photo.
Nearly every single one of them the quintessential Karen.
Geniuenely thought this was a skit.
Down with this sort of thing
All of those people look exactly how you’d expect.
We have a major problem with our attitude to change in this country. Literally nothing worth doing is unopposed, there’s this assumption that change is bad but the same people complain nothing ever changes.
Anywhere that’s consistently improving things for their citizens does so by assuming change is good and embracing it. Trying out new power sources, trying out new infrastructure, using technology to solve problems.
Whereas this shower of numbskulls are opposing a FUCKING BATTERY simply existing near them.
If ever there were a Valley of the squinting windows…
Ireland says no to the services we use. We need to find ways to provide services without infrastructure. Surely to god, with modern technology they can magic power into my TV without needing cables. Why hasn’t transporter technology been used in toilets yet? That Colm Meaney fella invented them decades ago.
Fearful peasants.
“Stop that thing we have no idea about” – drives a car with loads of things they have no idea about, uses electricity delivered by tech they have no idea about, uses a phone with software they have no idea about, eats food they have idea what is in it, takes medicine they have no idea about, goes to doctors giving advice they have no idea about. It’s baffling how many people are proud to say they are against stuff they just don’t know anything about. If their position was “we want to preserve green areas” I could get it or if they were saying protect some endangered animal, sure but their suggestion here is just that is “untested”. What the fuck do they want? Scientific papers? There are loads of papers providing more than enough info to prove that these batteries are cost effective at storing power with the downside that they can’t discharge quickly, that’s it. No safety concerns from any peer reviewed papers, no environmental or safety concerns. I really hate this shit.
What’s their issue with the battery storage? Why *is*it being trialled in Buncrana of all places?
This is what happens when you make everybody’s opinion equally valid.
You know I have a bit of sympathy for people who go all NIMBY on things that are genuinely big visual changes like a massive windfarm or a skyscraper. I get that the disruption of seeing a dramatic change in the landscape you’re used to is hard for some people to deal with. I disagree but I can empathise.
This however is just pure twattery. Fear of something you don’t understand and basing your opinion on whatever conspiratorial lunatic you can find to back you up.
I’d love to hear that dogs opinion on large infrastructure changes in the area
How do we know the dog is opposed?
It looks like he’s being held there against his will.
Aah yes, putting kids in the front for emotional blackmail. Jaysus, nothing will ever change in this country.
Half the people in that photo are children ffs when did it become popular to bring your kids to protests 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Anyway you factor out the children who probably have no idea what they are doing there and certainly no idea about dangers or lack thereof of energy storage and you have about a dozen ppl so nothing major to worry about
I’m from Buncrana and this place has a serious problem of people just wanting absolutely nothing to change or improve but then continue to complain about the town not getting any business or development opportunities
Two thoughts
1. Nimbyism is an unwanted effect of a very positive thing, full rights to publicly declare opinions on development.
– You do not want the opposite of this in the same way you don’t want the country choked with effective nimby campaigns.
2. Lodging submissions on proposed developments does not automatically mean anything, be it an extension or a battery facility, will be denied. They have to find valid environmental or planning procedure mishaps for their rationale
Despite opposition from local moron groups…
Everyone of them including most of the kids most likely a battery in their pocket 🤖
Iron-air batteries are actually safer than other types of batteries. No/very low risk of fire, non-toxic, no risk of overcharging etc. It’s still early days for iron-air batteries but everything points to them being very safe and well suited for grid-energy storage of intermittent energy sources like wind or solar.
It’s funny because traditional battery storage are more dangerous than iron-air batteries if something goes wrong. These are probably the same people who think 5g cell towers cause cancer.
Medieval peasant brain has returned to modern societies in a big way
State of them dragging their kids out for the photo op. Pure fucking gowls.
>Key Concerns:
* Potential harmful radiation
* Contamination and pollution of local streams that our animals rely on
* Destruction of wildlife habitats in the forestry area planned for deforestation
* Devaluation of our homes and land
Radiation? If people are concerned about being a few kilometers away from a non-ionising EMF source they should rip the wiring out of their homes.
As for the environment thing, they’re felling commercial Sitka to build this… and the site is also 1km from a large quarry. They probably should be protesting that too.
Not saying it’s right but you look at the high speed rail infrastructure china has put in place recently and they just plough through
Simple solution.
We pull all electrical cables out of Buncrana. We pull all 3G/4G masts and do not install 5G (god forbid).
“No future energy storage systems” has to be the most fucking backwards bonkers statement I’ve seen in a long time.
Back to the stone age with ye fucking muck donkeys.
Missing one that says council rejects because it will change the neighborhood’s characteristics
But it’s new and scary
No investment here, thank you very much!
https://preview.redd.it/nvq6k7rvuisd1.png?width=1262&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c3bf4139756b5bbb40a49c23ac092bdb0e40aa4
BATTERY STORAGE FOR WHAT GINA!!!!
Ignoring the NIMBYs for a second here, one GIGAWATT hour? This thing will store energy for up to one hundred hours?!? Can we have ten more of these and achieve complete energy independence, please?
This is the life cycle of only about 10% of large projects in Ireland. Most of them don’t get started _regardless_ of what NIMBYs think.
I’m a bog dweller and very rural in my habits but this shit annoys me in the last few years around me there’s been groups opposing windfarms, solar farms, 5g masts, anaerobic digest, brown people living in their communities, social housing, and flood defence work
Like I’ve my criticisms of the ownership model of infrastructure projects, I’d rather see the state or the communities own them but all the opposition is just a knee jerk new = bad from people who the next day will complain about the lack of investment in the area before they go back to opposing anything new.
About the only new things that didn’t get opposed was a new McDonald’s last year
Are these real locals or ‘concerned locals’?
It’s literally based on rust. I’m pretty sure Buncrana knows plenty about rust. It’s been tried and tested for a very long time.
I’ve no problem whatsoever with people objecting.
I do have a problem with unfounded objections being taken seriously. If any individuals or groups can provide data from any reputable source that indicates an issue with a new development, they must be listened to. If not, the objection should be promptly & summarily binned. You don’t delay a project on the basis of “Well, I don’t know there isn’t a problem…”
If these people had a voice as loud as this, back in the day, we’d have no:
* **Electricity:** “power lines are dangerous, heavy electricity falls out of lines and kills people”
* **Internet:** “the modem noises are satanic”
* **Mobile phones:** “~~2G/3G/4G/~~ 5G masts are emitting radiation”
* **Batteries:** “We don’t want them, because….reasons”. All while ignoring all the batteries in their phones, laptops, cars even the airpods attached to their stupid faces.
These people would burn themselves to death if they heard that Fire Alarms have radioactive elements in them.
Also those locals:
buT wHy wON’t sOMonE inVESt hERe
Reminds me of the gobshites who opposed the the Apple data centre in Athenry when the place needs the boost
https://preview.redd.it/gly6cdfhyisd1.png?width=259&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c99c58d1f238803b2fbc190a986bd8255a04243
I despise people with such closed mindedness. So uneducated and ignorant.
The battery is probably of military age and unvetted also.