"Green" policies are destroying this country

You're literally posting in defence of a thread title ''green' policies are destroying the country' where the OP says it's any green policy, not just aimed at the green party, and you object to being described as anti-green

You do realise you can be critical of various green policies without being "anti green" yes"? And no the OP is not saying its "any" green policies but rather certain green policies he details yes?

Yeah I know you believe the oil industry thing is all a huge conspiracy as opposed to normal business investors doing what big business and investment companies do. And no thats not always in the interest of the ordinary citizen or a counties. Wow that's a surprise isn't it?

And there you go with the conspiracy stuff - back in the U S of A and all the shite that goes on there in business and the US media circus. Here's a tip - leave off reading the American tabloids or conspiracy websites. They'll wreck your head . And there's no country on the planet 20 years ahead of where you think they should be. Thats just fantasy thinking on your part unfortunately.

Part of consensus is having a 'red line' beyond which the relationship is untenable

That red line can shift but that is dependent on the quality of the relationship.

Junior partners in a coalition have little power other than to pull the plug.

If the GP hadn't been using this power in negotiations, I'd frankly, be disappointed in them

yeah, we are where we are

I wrote my under graduate thesis on 'Path dependency'

Decisions taken in the past have a huge impact on the options available to future decision makers

It Ireland had a nuclear industry developed in the 70s, unless it was a massive failure, I would probably have advocated new nuclear 20 years ago. It would have made sense if we had an existing regulatory framework and experience in managing a nuclear sector.

But we didn't. so now the argument is about how much time do we have to make the changes, how fast do we need to de-carbonise etc. The requirements have changed. Nuclear is no longer the preferred solution, we need to focus our resources on technologies that are quicker to deploy and fit the modern dynamic of a diverse distributed grid.

Yeah, Ok, I'll stop reading the English language media, and focus entirely on the output of China and Inda and the other whatabouteries du jour

the realty is no one knows what the output of carbon emissions is by country and by sector.

till that is established everyone is pissing into the wind.

can anyone establish that fact before we proceed?

The reality is everyone is completely pissed of with green policies that have been threatening us with Armageddon for years while delivering sweet fook all…I’m sick of being constantly being told to reduce my minuscule carbon footprint by people who produce 10 times more than I do…I’m throwing my hat at it tbh…

So let me understand this right -- there's too big a gap to get from where we are now to nuclear (using technology that exists), but not too big a gap to get to green hydrogen and a hydrogen economy (using technology that doesn't exist).

I see Europe Oil and Gas's exploration license for the area near the Corrib gas field expires tomorrow. As per normal procedure, they applied for an extension three months ago, having completed all the required technical work under the license. And as usual, there is not a peep out of Ryan's department so far. Just like there is not a peep out of them on the Barryroe license which expired this time last year, and has now been awaiting a decision for 15 months (just like he previously made them wait 13 months for approval of a completely routine 2-day seabed survey). Ryan's strategy is clearly to make any potential explorers die of boredom.

Perhaps more in hope than expectation, the CEO of Europa today said:

Another less charitable commentator observed:

Today and tomorrow like a lot of farmers are my days off.

But up since 6.30 and outside getting jobs done. Looking forward to being paid to stay in bed ( not really) to produce less while other countries produce more on less efficient systems

The level of Large scale energy storage you speak about is not going to be feasible by 2030. We've just had weeks of near zero wind output. If we get to a point where we have a week of electricity stored, we'll be doing incredibly well. Any longer than that is unlikely.

It's in the IPCC AR1 reports

By 2030 We'll have several gw in solar and Offshore wind resources that are much more reliable than onshore (these are already in the pipeline, not completely hypothetical like nuclear plant in Ireland)