I assume you're looking for a diagnosis as an adult?
A diagnosis from a private clinic is approx. £400 (that's what I paid anyway).
You fill out a screening test in advance of a meeting with a psychiatrist.
If the psychiatrist diagnoses you with ADHD, they can initiate medication (as long as you're suitable) and once they've arrived at the correct dose for you, they will usually hand the prescribing over to your GP.
"Bicycles can be ridden on dirt roads or sidewalks (although the latter led to run-ins with pedestrians and made bicycles unpopular among the public at first)."
"Coal and peat continue to be used for power generation. In 2017 coal and peat accounted for 49% of carbon emissions from electricity generation, despite only accounting for 19% of electricity generated.The result of this is that the carbon intensity of the Irish electricity was the fourth highest in the EU in 2016, despite all our progress on using renewable energy."
The same policy which would introduce a ban on new non-plugin vehicles by 2030 also requires that the renewable percentage in the electricity grid will increase from 30% today to 52% in 2025, and 70% in 2030. And electric vehicles will mostly charge overnight, when the percentage of renewables is higher than those average numbers.
So the changes to the grid are being made before the ban comes into force. And any electric vehicle bought now will over its lifetime get significantly more than a majority of its electricity from renewable sources.
Peat? Seriously? Peat in Tasmania (Australia) is protected, because it occurs in national parks. This suggests it is a big deal for biodiversity. Yet apparently people are burning it for energy...
Yes, peat. Ireland does not have significant coal deposits, and our forests were chopped down for, amongst other things, our next door neighbour's collection of boats, which is part of how your ancestors likely ended up in Australia in the first place. That left peat as a fuel source up until recently.
We do not see the fact that we've been so dependent on it as a fuel source as a good thing.
Not all whisky is peated. At the current rates, there is enough peat for hundreds of years of whisky production, even if no new peat was formed, and it regrows at around 1mm/year, which is quite sustainable, if we stop using it for power generation.
All of the makers of peated whisky are committed to protecting the peat, as far as I know. And their peat usage is absolutely miniscule compared to its current use in power generation.
I suspect the requirements of the whisky industry for peat are probably pretty tiny - as far as I know its only the smaller higher end distillers that actually burn peat.
Peated whisky is a specialty product, with rather small production scales compared to unpeated Highland and Speyside malts. So yes, it is quite sustainable, given the regrowth rate.
Many years ago when I was a student I had a summer job working in one of the huge industrial scale maltings that supplied quite a few of the popular whisky brands - I can't remember if they produced peated malt but I do remember their analysis lab having gas chromatography equipment for analysing such things.
Peat is a renewable resource, like hardwood forests. It grows, but it is very slow so it's more expensive than other renewable resources. Someone here quoted 1mm/year but in active areas it's closer to 1 inch (26mm)/year
It is quite rare, but not nonexistent. I believe there's only about three to five distilleries who produce or will be producing peated Irish whiskey, at least one of which isn't yet in production at the moment.
> But presumably you could burn other fuel and get a similar result
I'm not so sure about that. Peat smoke has a quite distinctive smell.
In Germany they have relocated some 100.000 persons over the years, just to mine and burn lignite (not peat - corrections) for electricity. I think that's crazy. (The irony is that the Green party is currently the strongest political party in Germany, but the energy sector seems to have a stronger influence, go figure)
Just had very quick look at coal subsidies in Germany, it seems stone coal alone is getting 3.2 Bn per year... Not verified the source, so. Based on the last Wp prices for solar modules of roughly 0.3 €, doubling to cover installation, that amounts to 5 GW, give or take a little bit... Not too bad I think considering that in 2017 or 2018 world wide installations amounted to roughly 100 GW. And you would have jobs to get the plants installed and maintained.
That's not to say lignite is in any way "good", it's still a horribly inefficient way of getting energy. But peat stores large amounts of methane and carbon which gets released when drying it. Mining lignite coal also release some of that, but in much smaller amounts.
A quick estimation about the environmental impacts (with data for Germany only) shows peat is at least 5-20 times worse in terms of surface destruction - I have no idea how to compare the ecological impact of removing a biotope vs. moving a town.
Lignite:
- thickness of a lignite bed 11-35m [0]
- surface destruction per metric ton: 220-700 cm² [0]
Peat:
- thickness of a peat layer 1,5-2m [0])
- surface destruction per metric ton [1]:
-- at least 3,850-5,130 cm² (using the same density for coal and peat)
-- 6,000-8,000 cm² (moist peat, 0.8g/cm³ [2])
-- 10,000-13,300 cm² (dried peat, 0.4 g/cm³ [2], considering the higher calorific value for peat [4])
-- at worst 12,000-16,000 cm² (dried peat, 0.4 g/cm³ [2])
[4] The gross calorific value for peat is 5-20 % higher than for lignite [2]-[3]; though I guess that does not exclude the energy needed for drying the peat.
Ireland has been burning peat as a source of heat in homes for hundreds of years. It's the only abundant fuel source in Ireland. In recent years much of the raised bogland has been protected for conservation, and stripped bogs being converted into solar and wind farms.
Peat is a reasonably common domestic fuel in parts of Ireland and Scotland - also the "peaty" taste in whisky traditionally comes from drying malted barley using peat fires.
However, I agree that for a variety of reasons that peat should mostly be left where it is.
It is pretty polluting for the amount of energy you get out of it but I don't think it necessarily follows that because it occurs in national parks in Tasmania that it is important for biodiversity on the other side of the world in Ireland.
Bogs can play a major role in capturing and storing carbon. I think it's safe to say that they play an important role in the ecosystem no matter which side of the planet they're on, and should remain unmolested.
This happened in the Netherlands as well until coal was found in the province of Limburg. Quite a few of the old polders are actually dug up peat (veen) reserves which were originally converted into a lake and then afterwards dammed and drained.
I honestly don't even remember traffic when I was in Dublin, it is one of the most walkable cities I have ever been to; so when you say "gridlock" it makes me wonder what you've experienced because in my mind the city isn't even capable of what I would consider traffic coming from Atlanta.
This is whataboutism - just because Ireland hasn't solved all of its problems doesn't mean they shouldnt get credit for doing the right thing in other areas.
Exactly. If this was a story about solar or wind it would be about how electricity generation does not include transport! We need to do lots of things all at once.
Because it ignores the relative amount of carbon produced by each approach. With electricity it’s fairly easy to have a true understanding, which takes summing from each source not just listing the worst offenders.
However, Oil is expensive in part from the vast amount of energy used for exploration, extraction, refining, and transportation. Just looking at carbon produced when burning gas is a vast underestimate of it’s true impact.
Even in Ireland going fully electric would significantly reduce their carbon footprint.
Claiming hypicrosy for something not directly related to the subject is the definition of whataboutism.
> I wonder how many electric car owners give any thought to the source of their electricity?
Valid question, and I don't know. Given that Ireland announced thr ban from 2030, and the average age of a car on the road in Ireland is about 8 years, they have 15-20 years before the average car is electric there - plenty of time to wean off the nasty inefficient sources. Having the population on electric vehicles means that clean power generation will have an even stronger impact on the world.
- The actors are British (with the exception of one main character who is Swedish and speaks with a Swedish accent) so it's easiest for them to just use their own accents.
- For whatever reasons, they didn't want to film it in Russian, with Russian actors and subtitles. And they felt that foreigners trying to feign Russian accents starts to get comical. So they made the decision to just let actors use their own accents (they also felt that American audiences wouldn't process it well if they used American accents).
- I watched the show and the accents are annoying for about ten minutes until you get used to them and cease to notice/care
Dunno if this is the podcast response, but this is generally done in movies / TV when they have foreign characters speak English as a proxy for their native language. They almost never use American English unless the character is American; they’ll either use British English or a heavy accent.
Do you have a citation for this? I've never heard of using British English as a proxy for a foreign language. Instead, I always assumed it was because there are a lot of popular British actors, and if portraying non-English speakers, there's no good reason to "fake" an accent (so they just use their native accent), as was the case with "Chernobyl".
Most non-native English speakers around the world will be taught British rather than American English, so this 'accent' would be what you could expect from them in real life if they were to speak English.
I would also partly chalk it up to the ubiquity of American TV and movies. The midwestern accent is the norm for spoken English on TV, and most of those are set in America with American characters. If you want to say someone is from somewhere else but they’re all speaking a non-English language, speaking in a British accent sounds “foreign enough”.
Yeah, but PC manufacturers still charge like 3x the price at least for SSDs (or any component actually) when choosing/making your builds at their websites.
“Dick, this guy must be either very smart or very lucky. He constantly claims he knew less about what was going on than anyone else in the field, but he still made the crucial discovery.”
Your company may own any intellectual property you create on company time, whether it's done on a company laptop or not...other companies claim ownership of anything created while you're employed by the company.
TL:DR Release your code under a pseudonym, and don't use your company laptop.
A diagnosis from a private clinic is approx. £400 (that's what I paid anyway).
You fill out a screening test in advance of a meeting with a psychiatrist.
If the psychiatrist diagnoses you with ADHD, they can initiate medication (as long as you're suitable) and once they've arrived at the correct dose for you, they will usually hand the prescribing over to your GP.
Hope this helps...