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Comment on Eamonn Ryan’s Policy on Nuclear Power by Dave

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:50:10 +0000

Sorry about the delay in this posts showing up folks, for some reason the blog software decided they were spam!

Comment on Eamonn Ryan’s Policy on Nuclear Power by Conor

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:04:02 +0000

Sounds like a bit of a popularity stunt . I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to have a serious political debate about nuclear power. There’s one group of people who want to weigh up the actual pros of cons of nuclear, and another (probably much larger) group who, at the mere mention of the word “nuclear” just cover their ears and shout “la la la I’m not listening!!”

Comment on Eamonn Ryan’s Policy on Nuclear Power by Joffan

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:30:36 +0000

It sounds like Mr Ryan is being honest, in that allowing prospecting with no intent of allowing mining would indeed be hypocritical.

However, he is also acting illegally (or at least irrationally) in that he appears to have made up a policy on the spot with no sign of a properly conducted scientific/economic study to base it on. Mineral extraction does involve impact but the scale of that impact and the economic benefits should also be part of the consideration. Policy based on dogma cannot win lasting support.

Comment on Eamonn Ryan’s Policy on Nuclear Power by G.R.L. Cowan, hydrogen-to-boron convert

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:06:52 +0000

Recently uranium’s price was $240,000 per tonne. As a public servant, can Ryan really turn up his nose at that kind of money, or rather, at the taxes on that kind of money?

Actually, it is rather easy for paid public servants in general to do that nose-upturning, because the recent price of natural gas is near $4 million per uranium-tonne-equivalent, and that of petroleum, $9 million per uranium-tonne-equivalent. And both oil and gas bring in special taxes, e.g. petrol tax.

We’d have a lot more electric railways if our “servants” weren’t afraid we’d run them on uranium power, and deprive some of them of the privilege of serving.

Comment on BT Complaints by Mark Shaw

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:32:57 +0000

I was so fed up with BT that I set up a BT complaints blog where everyone can submit their BT complaint - I have had so many that I will be putting a report together and sending it off for a response from BT. Feel free to submit yours!

Comment on Eamonn Ryan’s Policy on Nuclear Power by Rod Adams

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:50:47 +0000

Dave:

Like you, I am a big supporter of nuclear power. I also like to point to hypocritical positions like those taken by people who live in fear of climate change yet believe that nuclear waste is an insurmountable problem that forces us to avoid using fission as one of the responses to global warming.

I also have to challenge those people who say that there is not enough uranium in the world to allow fission to be much more than a passing fad and then campaign to slow exploration, development and recycling of the material.

People who state that nuclear power is irrelevant to a country like Ireland because the plants are too large for the island grid also have an intellectual challenge that is demonstrated when one thinks about the sizes of the first reactors used for power - Calder Hall was only about 50 MWe and so was Shippingport. Today, submarines, icebreakers and aircraft carriers all use reactors that are considerably smaller than the conventional central station power plants and South Africa is developing the PBMR at a size that would be very appropriate for Ireland.

It is my humble opinion that some of the campaigners against nuclear power are quite logical - they see the technology as a threat to their prosperity because their prosperity is dependent on the continued use of fossil fuels. If I am not mistaken, Ireland has a substantial stake in the production of natural gas from North Sea wells, and that gas needs a nearby market for it to have any value. Perhaps that is the reason that Ryan is so anti-nuclear.

Comment on BT Complaints by Des

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:22:36 +0000

Whilst Bt do provide a reliable service their customer care is non-existent. When I moved to them they lost my forms twice and hen miraculously found them. They moved my broadband but forgot to move the phone so I was paying effectively on the double. Each month a different “head of customer support” type bod promised a solution. When they did finally move me it was my old provider who emailed me with the news (probably glad to see the back of me).

The broadband forum on boards.ie has a fairly comprehensive list of BT complaints.

Comment on BT Complaints by Donncha O Caoimh

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:06:24 +0000

That’s pretty confusing! I bet we’ll see a positive “customer satisfaction” survey from them any day now ..

Comment on Advertising Standards in Ireland by Des

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:11:04 +0000

The difference is that the prevailing attitude is that it is acceptable to sexualise males but not females. Hence the broad popularity (and acceptance) of groups such as the Chippendales but the scorn and disdain heaped on lapdancing.

To my mind both scenarios could be seen as exploiting a particular gender…