"Green" policies are destroying this country

We you ever wake up and actually look at wind capacity of 33% actually means ? It means exactly sweet F.A. when the real time generation by wind for extended periods is 6% and less. On your own figures for those periods, not just wind, but all renewables were providing just 360mw of peak demand of 6000.

So how are you going to achieve providing the other 5,640mw required? Storage is pie in the sky for that volume for extended periods, so adding more turbines is the only other option I can see and that is going to require at least 16X greater than we presently have installed.

Some bad stuff coming if it happens to be true...

Ireland’s green agenda-loving government is set to impose an emissions cut of around 28 per cent on farmers, a report has claimed.

Charlie McConalogue, Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, is already planning to force an either 27 or 28 percent cut to the nation’s farming sector, which will greatly disrupt and upend local businesses, not to mention damage an already fragile food supply.

Some even further-left interests are pushing for a 30 percent cut, which would likely devastate the nation’s food economy past the point of recovery – which seems to be the goal, quite frankly.

“A target of 30 percent would result in significantly reduced production, which could devastate the farming sector in Ireland,” warned Irish Farmers’ Association president Tim Cullinan.

I’d take both the great reset and Breibart with a large chunk of salt, there are better publications that show how ridiculous this idea is.

Yeah, energy efficiency is definitely a big part of the mix. BEVs are much much more efficient than ICE, Heat Pumps are way more energy efficient than combustion based heating and modern building methods and materials can make homes much more energy efficient on top of this.

We need to get a circular economy going, which the EU are finally starting to take notice of.

Solar PV recycling is going to be a big industry with a lot of valuable raw materials that can be reasonably easily extracted for re-use

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/07/18/theres-big-money-in-recycling-materials-from-solar-panels/

Can you look at this information historically I wonder?

That way we could see what wind speed was in the area proposed for moneypoint one and two, when we had that low wind weather system.

We would be able to measure the min GWH generated at the lowest wind speeds then as we would know the proposed amount of wind turbines involved in the above projects.

Does it show the lowest wind speed and for how extended those periods are, because if it does not it is worth jack to determine the number of turbines that would be required at that wind speed to ensure a 100% reliable supply as we already know that for on-shore wind it would require a minimum of 16 times greater than the number we presently have.

In case you are thinking of comparing on-shore and of-shore average capacity, save yourself the time as it`s not worth jack either. There is no such thing as a constant wind average. Engineering design is based on worst case scenario.

To which you may add: in favour of EVs but let all the dirty minerals required for huge batteries be mined in third world countries. And when the batteries are knackered send them off there for 'recycling' i.e. dumping.

And the generation now, who whilst blaming us, insist on having their cheap flights a few times a year for mini breaks. And the best of modern tech, throw the old stuff in the bin and so on.

The opposite if anything. Banning exploration and attempting to ban LNG, never mind keeping his hands warm sitting on them in relation to Barryroe. Some here are as bad. Cheering on protests by a few nutcases protesting about gas plants that are all that is between us and major blackouts.

It`s all about the ideology of people who do not live in the real world.

I like the Earth.nullschool.net site myself.

The difference in wind potential between onshore and offshore is really huge

For example, right now, on the windiest part of Ireland, surface winds are about 17kph,

But offshore the wind at the surface peaks at about 36kph

At 112m above sea level you can add another 6kph, and a few more at 200m asl

These wind speeds would generate a lot of energy, even on a day that is mostly calm onshore, and Offshore wind farms can generate energy from lower wind speeds as their turbines are so much bigger.

People mentioned 2021 as an exceptionally calm period where we generated almost no energy from wind.

Here's what the wind looked like on September 16 across Ireland and the UK. (this was the date Fortune wrote an article about low wind power in the UK

https://fortune.com/2021/09/16/the-u-k-went-all-in-on-wind-power-never-imaging-it-would-one-day-stop-blowing/

Not much wind over the Land, or to the east of the UK, but loads and loads of wind off the Irish west coast.

This is a perfect example of why the European grid needs interconnectors, and why Ireland can benefit hugely from adding excess capacity off shore. When it's calm off the UK, it's likely to be windy off Ireland, or sunny in Europe, or windy in the north sea, or the irish sea etc.

Because for a party that only 7% of those who bothered to show up last time voted for, him and his ilk are making policy decisions based on ideology, fantasy and scaremongering - while in the real world people are struggling with their fuel costs as it is, never mind the pain ahead when the cold weather sets in.

Won't affect Eamon and his bunch though, and it certainly won't make a difference to the output of the likes of China, the USA, India, Russia etc, but the Greens will get a good dose of de feelz so who cares about that, right?

We are a pack of fcuking mugs we are in this country for putting up with this sh1te.

We have a national herd of cattle that numbers about 6 million. Brazil has a national herd of cattle that numbers about 232 million.

We are being asked/forced/pressured to reduce our herd number by between 20% - 30%. Brazil are planning to increase their national herd by 24 million by 2030.

Why the fcuk are we bothering.

Sorry for my tone, I'm fairly fcuking annoyed.

Its hillarious how many seem to be triggered by this thread. The idea of anyone being critical of green policies and those pushing them. I mean splutter splutter outrage - How dare they!

When will flights be curtailed do you think?

Heard a lady on RTE the other day saying other industries had already cut by 60% ..... she neglected to mention which ones, you wouldn't know would you?