"Green" policies are destroying this country

Losses are 7.5%.

Anyone who thinks this climate change agenda is not big business have a read of this.

A company that has been operating for 50 years and employing thousands of people all the way is suddenly worth 1.25 billion in less than 2 years,

Was reading about the NI farm turbine grants, you get the grant for 20 years, first 4 should cover your investment, guaranteed payment no matter how little you produce

Can these grants be got this side of the border, because I'm coming to the conclusion that this working crack is a waste of time?

Siberia is 138.5 times the area of Ireland but only has 6.4 times the population. Barely anyone there to make fire breaks.

Nah, ours won't give to their own, you'd need to do your best fake Scottish or German accent

Aye, and if you think wind turbines are green have a read of this:

https://bergensia.com/bisphenol-a-in-wind-turbines-damages-human-fertility/

Making climate change denial illegal is stupid and dangerous. I don't agree that climate change is a hoax, but when differing opinions are silenced even the most robust science becomes dogma. For the same reason, I think people who dispute the Holocaust happening are usually doing so for detestable reasons, but I think Holocaust denial laws are counter-productive. People are free to hold an opinion, even if it's very obviously wrong, even if acting on that opinion would be illegal. Thoughts should never be crimes.

Everybody wants them. They just cant afford them. Even including grants. And the amount of hoops you have to jump through to get the grant.

Ive a friend who installs solar and he says business is booming, but the grant situation is the biggest pita imaginable.

As an aside,

Last year i asked him if we should get solar on the parents house.

He said no. Dont bother retrofitting unless its free.

He said dont bother at all with solar electric. Total waste of money. To make it work for you you have to spend a fortune.

He said most people go for solar water heating these days as pv has a much higher payback period.

Now cant remember the exact cost of the installation would have been. I think he said about €5000, not sure.

Turns out it costs us 50c to heat the hot water on timer in the morning and it lasts all day. He said it would be even cheaper if we got instant hot water installed, but we never looked into that.

But we would have been spending €5000 on solar to save 50c per day (And thats not even every day. Its summer months only that they will heat all the water you need. And sure you are on holidays usually for a couple of weeks of that). Then those things have a finite life and require maintenance., They payback period never includes those costs. He told me he there was 99% chance we would have ended up paying more than the cost of installation on maintenance and repairs again over the "payback period". And you better not sell the house in the meantime or you miss that payback period :)

He said the only reason he has solar ion his own house was that he got the panels for free and he installed it himself. Otherwise he wouldnt have bothered at all.

If the government decide to say, make burning coal illegal, people are expected to follow the law, even if they don't like it. But they're free to think the law is stupid and they're free to share their opinion. With things like climate change, vaccines and so on it's is a bit trickier. I think the line lies with disinformation: If someone is knowingly passing on lies, or fabricating misleading information, then they've crossed that line. I'm not sure how you would prove that, and that's a problem, but if we start punishing people for thinking something, we no longer live in a free society.

You can build as many wind turbines as you wish but that does not change the wind being intermittent. The simple fact is that we have been putting all our eggs in one basket, wind, and are continuing to do so with "truly mind boggling" off shore wind farms.

The plan is to get us to a level of 80% of our energy needs from renewables (i.e. wind being the vast majority) and as we get to this figure other power stations will be shut down. Even at our present level of relying on wind energy we can see the hole in the plan. One gas fired power station off line for maintenance and we are looking at Winter blackouts. The green answer, nuclear power from France. An energy source they are not even prepared to discuss yet are happy to use to get them out of a hole. A hole that is only going to become larger following the present policy.

I`m always in favour of following the science. Getting ahead of it and hoping the science catches up, not so much. With the present level of battery technology, to talk about battery storage as an alternative to preventing energy shortfall is just that. Wishful thinking.

Is it not past time that we copped ourselves on and realise that by beggaring or citizens and our economy we are not going to save the world on our own ? Solar energy is now the latest basket being touted to put eggs in. If solar power is the next great hope then why are China, the world leaders as exporters of solar panels planning on opening over 40 new coal fired power stations if solar is the answer ? It`s not as if they would have any problem with planning permission for solar farms. If you missed that the leader of China could not be arsed turning up for the COP 26 beanfeast, you probably also missed that while Johnston was pontificating up in Scotland, down in Cumbria the U.K are planning on opening a new deep pit coal mine. As i said, past time we copped ourselves on.

Over capacity and pumped storage. We do not have over capacity to be used when we need it. The reverse with this present plan. With this plan of 1 million electric cars between now and 2030 (I know it`s a fiction but even if it was not) these and every other hairbrained idea will be gobbling up greater energy than we now require. Doing much of that off peak is not going to do much for pumped storage (a practice that is totally energy inefficient to begin with) as off peak energy will simply not be there to avail off.

Care to state this as a syllogism rather than a series of random statements that may or may not be completely irrelevant to the current state of affairs?

In case you don't know what a syllogism is, you can read about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism