"Green" policies are destroying this country

There was talk of feeding plankton, stimulating them to grow with iron filing etc etc.

Let their mortal remains fall to the sea floor and lock away carbon that way.

If it works it should be tried.

Houses in Western Australia mostly have a 3 phase power supply as standard. No need to pay the ESB €26,000, or whatever it is. It's really handy because you can have instantaneous electric hot water heaters with no need for an insulated storage tank and the energy waste involved.

I know you absolutely revel in the stymiing of all fossil fuel ventures by regulatory and legal hurdles, but prepare yourself for dissapointment. I know you think these are all permanent obstacles and cannot be altered, but that is not the case. If there are significant economic, commercial or political repercussions, arising from the current energy crisis, like a very large US MNC threatening to terminate tens of thousands of jobs, you will find that even an Irish government can probably be moved to act.

So carry on with your gloating link drops, while you can.

There is a car coming onto the market next year that would get the vast majority of it's power from built in solar panels, but it's a 2 seater 3 wheeled car and it only works in sunnier climates than ours.

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A literal no-brainer if you are someone who drives their car to work so it's rarely connected to the panels if the sun happens to be shining during those rather rare hours in a year when it is (14.8%).

It's worth a go but we need to reduce emissions as well. Rewetting previously drained wetlands seems to be another good way to sequester carbon and improve biodiversity

The IPCC projections require negative carbon emissions beyond 2050 to avoid going over 2c of warming

It was a decade ago, someone in Spain got caught generating Solar power at night, at the time the Spanish government paid out a premium for solar, and one "enterprising individual" found a way to run a diesel generator. . . Of course Spain crashed in the 2008 bust and had to cancel the solar party so many of the investors who thought they were on a sure thing went bust.

Apologies. I have used phase converters off single phase power supplies to power 3 phase motors before. But I double checked and it wouldn't work for charging a battery

I knew there was auxiliary motors working along side capacitors, and I've physically used them successfully but not for high current scenario like welding or fast charging a high capacity battery

We would just use gas backup which is the current plan

You need someone to sabotage both Corrib and the Moffat pipeline and moneypoint.. I don't hope this happens

There are lots of pathways to carbon neutral energy. It's a matter of picking the ones that suit us best and investing in them

The final few percent are always the hardest. But we can handle those after all the lowest hanging fruits are picked

The main concepts are

1. Big interconnected super grids build resilience

2. Storage, even short term, allows time to switch on backups and completely eliminate peaker gas turbines reducing our reliance on fossil fuels significantly

3. Local power generation and storage on the domestic or municipal scale adds resilience

4. Increasing efficiency can reduce demand

5. Storage means peak demand disappears. Energy demand can be divorced from generation capacity. In the same way we don't just get to drink water when it's raining, we can store energy when it's abundant and consume it when we need it.

The first people to propose building water reservoirs by flooding valleys by building dams were told it couldn't work and would be too expensive

They're on the same side of history as the people who say we cannot store electrons because they're too expensive and take up too much space etc.

So gas is the keystone holding up the green archway to utopia. Can we not depend on wind,solar, hydro to keep the lights on ? Gas at the moment is in short supply, anyone's guess what's happens this winter. Personally I hoping for lights out and a rude awakening, it's only a matter of time anyway.

So now the green`s and their sidekicks not just happy with making a mocker out of planning, they are attempting to do the same with the Standards in Public Office.

If anyone should be up in front of that office for poor standards in public office it`s Minister Eamon Ryan on his disgraceful behaviour in relation to Shannon LNG ABP, Barryroe and Europa Oil and Gas. When we end up like the Italian`s having to pay 190 million + interests to Ombrina Mare then I look forward to your attempts at explanation as to how righteous he was.

Infrastructure needed to support renewables requires huge amounts of fossil fuel inputs and minerals/metals that are on no way green to extract

we are out of time