From The Manchester Evening News.
The environmental activists say it feels ‘hypocritical’ but it would have used more energy to transport a solar generator from London
By Alice CachiaJournalist
- 13:51, 1 SEP 2019
- Updated 22:58, 1 SEP 2019
Organisers told the Manchester Evening News they felt like hypocrites but had been forced to use the generator because it would have been too expensive to get a solar panel made
A diesel-powered generator is being used to run the music stage at the Extinction Rebellion protests on Deansgate.
Organisers told the Manchester Evening News they felt “like hypocrites” but had been “forced” to use the generator because it would have been too expensive to get a solar panel made.
The protest – which has brought one of Manchester’s busiest shopping streets to a standstill to highlight the threat of climate change – is on its third day.
Graham Buss, 63, said: “We were desperate to get a solar panel specially made for the demonstrations but it would have cost us £8,000.
“That’s money we simply don’t have.
“Even if we’d been able to get a solar panel made, we would have still had to have had a diesel-powered generator as a back up.
“It’s something we really do regret having to use and we feel like hypocrites, but this is the point.
“We’re part of a system that has made it incredibly difficult to use solar panels for these sorts of events and we feel like we’ve been forced to have to use the diesel generator.
HT/Rickie K and Willie Soon
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The irony … it burns.
“Even if we’d been able to get a solar panel made, we would have still had to have had a diesel-powered generator as a back up.” Precisely!
So what did the people think who saw the stage act? Having that generator humming and lights glaring, i wonder what was said from the stage?
“We’re part of a system that has made it incredibly difficult to use solar panels”
It wasn’t the system that made solar panels difficult to use, it was basic physics.
When anyone else complains about how expensive solar power is, we are told that this is the price we must pay in order to save the world.
By there own logic, being expensive or inconvenient should never be an excuse for not using solar.
That’s the real hypocrisy. They are using an excuse for themselves, that they reject for everyone else.
It was illegal to use in a public space and they should be arrested, fined, have points against their license and have it confiscated.
You cannot use diesel equipment that doesn’t meet/exceed Tier 4 for any reason in that location.
I have a really, really great idea. Bear with me.
They want us all to live in a world without modern stuff like electricity, clean, potable running water, medicines that work. massive food sources within reach of most people, heat in the winter and (if needed) cooling in the summer, clean clothing, rapid response emergency services, rapid transportation on paved roads – you get the drift.
My REALLY REALLY GREAT IDEA is this: these bozos get themselves together as a group. They get to spend a 13-month period, with no breaks and no way out, living the way they want us to live. They’ll get a start-up package of tools, seeds, and one instruction book on how to do everything. There is a survival guide like that available. And no TV show about it, either. They are isolated from the modern world.
They can set the example for the rest of us. Any of them who survive this more “natural” way of life will get a nod from us for being clever enough to set the example, but we’ll go on about our business afterwards, while they write books nobody buys.
Since there are plenty of examples of people native to their own areas, e.g., Borneo, Tiber, Kalahari (Bushmen), Old Order Amish, I see no issues with it.
Anyone else have a better idea?
A better idea?
Ummm… your idea, but also supergluing them to the ‘natural’ spot so they don’t try and bunk off the moment our backs are turned.
I believe something like that was tried a while ago. It was called Biosphere 2 just NE of Tucson, AZ. Didn’t work. People couldn’t get along. But you can tour it for about $17.
Like all socialist warmists it is “do what I tell you not what I do”. Hypocrites!
The woman who founded Extinction Rebellion is involved and what is on the sign on the front of the stage? Drug and alcohol free zone message? Diesel on the other hand…
Solar panels? In Manchester? I must confess I don’t like extinction rebellions message, but you really do have to admire their blind optimism.
I am bemused at what HSS Hire – the company that seems to have provided the rented unit – actually thinks about all this.
Imagine the ads…
“We’re HSS Hire, preferred suppliers of fossil fuel powered portable CO2 emitters of Extinction Rebellion. Remember HSS Hire when you absolutely need reliable power in your Renewable Utopia. Ring now and obtain a free tube of superglue with every rental. Terms and Conditions apply.”
“ they felt “like hypocrites” but had been “forced” to use the generator because it would have been too expensive to get a solar panel made.
Except that nobody is forcing them to hold their disruptive rally. If they were not hypocrites, they would only hold rallies in accordance with their arguments.
All heil the blitherati!
Reality trumps ideology every time…
Battery power? Could an EV have been used”
What makes it worse is for their summer protests they did have Solar panels, but they then sold them off shortly after. They were listed on bimblesolar which is a solar panel clearing site, pity I did not take a screen shot.
How many referendums does it take to get out of EU
Was the protest going to continue during the night, DUHHHH!!!!!, and did they finally twig to the fact that solar power only operates if there is enough sunlight. I have had a greenie tell me her house is powered by solar, not unless you have batteries to store the solar energy for night time usage, she looked at me blankly, brain dead, what in god’s name did she really think that her solar worked at night, I believe she did she was soooo brainwashed, because it appeared she did not have a battery system for night time usage, it hadn’t occurred to her that turning on the lights and running the cooktop came from that dirty nasty black stuff here in Australia, at one hell of a price.
Presumably these muppets had all the required legal boxes ticked? Council permission? Rent for the space? Health and Safety? Police presence paid for? You know, the same rules everyone else has to follow. Also, I take it the businesses affected will get a proportionate reduction in rates?