Thomas Duffy
@taesaveslives
Talks way too excitedly about niche topics, mostly agricultural, politics and environmental. Formerly a lot of things. Currently minding a robot who milks cows
Ireland may need to up it's crisp game. Savage tasty, but can you imagine a "cheese and Carlow onion" crisp
Meanwhile Ireland ranked near the bottom for available free drinking water so it's like we've actively picked data centres over human beings
See this is really why I have issues with the reporting of the GHG inventories this week Headlines were all about reductions including in energy, except a part of that is we're importing more (yes renewables have increased too). Except the climate doesnt care about where 1.3Mt of ghg was produced!
Credit where it's due but the flipside is that article was posted at 20:13 whereas the story broken at 14:00. Bigger issue than the delay is that the article is just a repost of Reuters with additional reporting by the always hard working Tony Connolly. Not to mention Farage's story has no material
So Le Pen can run again. Not a single mention on @news.rte.ie but two for Farage. At what point do we start calling this a dereliction of their public service mandate? When the EU gets pulled further to the far right we won't be informed or prepared to handle it #speirgorm
on housing who are affected or worried of a repeat of the disaster of the UK. England banned culling was banned between 1981 and 2013 and saw drastic rises. England allowed it between 2013-2026. After a peak the effect in England is clear. Sadly Labour is now abandoning & promising a cattle vaccine
Like there are two brands that do have a pretty good reputation outside Ireland. Ironically they're both farming related too (now this might be my skewed social media). Even Yanks love McHale balers because they get tested to destruction by our farms. Keenan was but now owned by US Alltech...
Was reflecting on the economic development in Warsaw last week. Topic of foreign vs domestic investment came up. We struggled to think of an Irish brand outside of food, like Kerrygold is our biggest with semi-Irish Guinness & Jameson For this 'tech economy' zero, am I forgetting some? #speirgorm
I see yanks telling Europeans to 'just install air con' is going well #speirgorm
I sometimes hear the stereotype that farmers are climate deniers. Anyway this is the introduction to a presentation on how to reduce methane per cow from the international dairy cow breeders conference I'm at #speirgorm
underfunded there was no alternative (Nightjet used to run Paris-Berlin but got cancelled). Without the sleeper the rest of the trip is impossible. I still needed to be in Warsaw for a conference so what were my options? Well at least @eurostarnews.bsky.social consider their passengers, I'll take 2/
Well this sucks. Ridiculous how little support night and sleeper trains EU gives Vs welfare queens like Ryanair
Worth mentioning not all. Interesting defection from both Gov and EPP line there. Some odd absences too
Data centres will always be a strain on our grid but theres a part engineering solution. They use so much energy to just release heat into the sky Ireland has one of the lowest % of renewable energy in total energy consumed because almost all heating is fossil. Build district heating! #speirgorm
contains parties who voted against referring it to courts despite calls from every eNGO & a lot of concerns about food safety (proven right recently) howtheyvote.eu/votes/183885 This Danish gov doesnt give two shits about the environment. This will reduce domestic production & outsource pollution
Climate adaptation (drought on a stony south facing field), GHG reduction (clover reduces nitrogen fert use) and water quality improvement (Plantain reducing nitrate leeching) on the farm today #speirgorm
depicted. Even on herd reductions, it's already happened in beef farming. Majority of beef farmers are open to herd reductions www.thejournal.ie/beef-farmers... However you cant be surprised where production is directly tied to income (dairy) we're no more likely than anyone to cut our income? 2/
Genuinely how this guy is held up by some in environmental circles is beyond me. Not only dripping with entitlement but actively harmful to the climate. Less said about what he did to the tillage farmers that were actually working for a living on "his" land #speirgorm
Reminsee that live prices for natural gas traded globally is down 38% this year. We don't burn much oil in our electricity generation either #speirgorm
And you essentially eradicated TB while England... The recent dip was around the time they started badger culling again. It's a sad reality however not near as sad as seeing a sett full of infected badgers dying
We have maps like these: gis.teagasc.ie/soils/ And this: globalsolaratlas.info/map?c=53.738... - solar map (conviently SEAI's own maps showing planned sites has been down for 657 days apparently...) Ireland lacks a grading system like UK however. In fact we're behind many other EU states in setting