"Green" policies are destroying this country

Your party is no different to the rest, totally out of touch with a massive majority of people in the country.

But the leader of your party seems to think that there is nothing outside of Dublin or the big cities when he spouts about trains and public transport and bicycles.

Also shouting about the carbon footprint while jetting off to new York for his paddies day holidays.

Finally I agreed with and totally thought the change to smokeless fuel was great and was all I used but thanks to the tax,vat and now another carbon tax most people I know are going to be cutting turf this year and stocking up on the cheap coal so it's a bit of an own goal imo.

As I said on the thread, the Greens are not "my party". I just have bothered to read their policies, felt some of them are really good. But I am also aware of the environment and want to try change the way we live now so in the future that people will look back and say "actually they tried to help us". I don't understand with all the information we have available now that a nation would prefer to still act like a dirty pig and leave a mess behind them for someone else to fix.

It reminds me of the reaction when MM said he was going to ban smoking in pubs, the reaction was incredible. This was never going to work. They got huge kick back and then afterwards, "F**K me this is great".

As a nation we just need to work through this and drag people with us till we get to the "F**k me this is great" phase.

To answer a few direct questions, the flight to US is to promote Ireland, we need to keep jobs etc. Plus a plane is the lowest CO2 output for moving large numbers of people over distance. They done a study of driving from London to Glasgow(I think) or flying. Flying was better.

Read the Green policies in terms of outside Dublin.

The Greens are a small party who are 2 years in government. They cannot change the World economy.

I always thought this was a very powerful ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY5jNv391rk

In regards to the post earlier about solar only works 3 months a year. 9 in the morning and I am already off the grid with solar PV.

This is the 18th of March and my panels are on SW roof so not even in direct sun light yet

No idea on wind at the moment, but if low thats why we need solar with wind

In a storm some wind turbines cannot handle the additional wind so they can stop them spinning so they don't go too fast and get damage. Stopping them is all done remote of course

Damned if you do and damned if you don't it would seem

You can imagine the outcry from everyone is one of the leaders rejected an invite from the US or another country on St Patrick day.

How many times has it been mentioned in the last few weeks about his recommendation to slow down, how many times is it fired up about him saying to car share.

It just shows that people are very easy to try and ridicule the Greens but the actual idea's are perfectly sane.

The other one of course is about the lettuce, but if you watch the full video it is about mental health during lockdown. That story never gets told.

I am sure you will see some parties now out trying to sell these idea's as their own now.

I put on 19 panels, this is what it is at now as the sun has moved closer to the panels. Now don't get me wrong it is a clear sunny day today.

The boards PV chats here are an excellent source, also a group of facebook with a few of the boards users and also other people. Loads of advice on the best bang for buck if going that direction. A lot of rip off merchants in market.

P.S. the base load in my house is twice a normal house so that's why more panels was better

Then what are the two reasons?

I mentioned it here a few times and I have talked to guy in the UK grid. The biggest issue with a grid and the high cost is peaks. I gave the example, which they gave me, about 4 million people watching a tv program and then flicking on a kettle at hte break. That is a killer for the grid, the plan is smart meter will help to resolve that

Spinning up nuclear/coal/gas whatever for these peaks cost the grid. That's why a wind/solar/renewable balanced grid is what every country wants. That of course can involved electric cars and batteries to help in the future. So your car will also just be a big electricity storage unit.

Excellent post by the way

Maybe I am reading the post incorrect, but are you denying climate change? that's the way it read to me

Why would anyone feel "superior" because they believe in climate change?

😂

Then I am talking pony. Cheerio