"Green" policies are destroying this country

What other non-intermittent source of energy will we be using in 2050?

The poster claimed that we were using less gas deu to renewables.

The facts show that to be incorrect and we have been using more year on year. In 2021 there was a slight decrease of 3.75% compared to the previous year, but there was a corresponding increase of a 14% increase in the use of coal and 7.5% in the use of oil.

Are you now questioning SEAI figures or do you now not regard coal and oil as fossil fuels.

Dredging of rivers doesn't prevent extreme flooding. There simply isn't enough space in the river channel to contain the water, and it can even make the flooding worse as the faster flowing rivers would wash away banks and flood defenses downstream.

Sigh. How often do you have to be shown this before it registers.

A Ireland Thinks survey October 2021 of 5,000 panelists found that 43% were in favor of nuclear with 43% not in favor.

You may also wish to ignore as well, that the highest percentage of those in favor at 60% were the 18 -24 age group. The same group that the Green Party gained the highest percentage of their vote from in GE 2020.

So we keep hearing, but when repeatedly asked how much capacity will be required and at what cost greens have no answer.

Wind, no matter if onshore or offshore is intermittent and unreliable. As a business plan it`s not something anyone in their right mind would hand over a blank cheque for based on nothing other than the hope it works. Especially when we have seen numerous occasions in the past year just how undependable onshore has been providing 6% or less of our needs for extended periods from over 75% capacity

On a windy day- yes.

In prolonged high pressure systems it won’t.

Increasing depth or capacity of a river section does not cause the water to flow any faster than it would in a regular flood scenario. The only thing that does cause that is the removal of natural dams from debris, natural weirs from rocks, and river bends through deposited silt and other material.

No local authority will remove either of the latter 3 things from a river when dredging. It is not done.

As for 1 in x00 year events - given how relatively recent rainfall data is in many places, there is barely 100 years of data to go off of when making those kinds of predictions in the first place. And it all assumes a normal distribution for these events - climate is always changing and never constant, so the idea that any weather events would follow a normal distribution and can be predicted as a 1 in 100, 1 in 200, 1 in 500 year event is a fallacy!

Why are you attempting to ignore the statistics (post #14542).

The O P claimed we were reducing our use of gas due to renewables. The statistics show the opposite.

We have been increasing our use of gas year on year since 2014.

A 1 in a hundred year event is something that has a 1% chance of happening in any given year. The USGS have put a lot of work into calculating these probabilities. These are important to know so they can plan infrastructure.

https://www.usgs.gov/publications/estimation-magnitude-and-frequency-floods-streams-puerto-rico-new-empirical-models

The fact that multiple extremely rare events have happened in a short timeframe means that the distribution curve is shifting to the right. Previously rare events are now becoming normal, and the new 'extreme' is something that would have been almost impossible to occur in the previous climate before AGW

I said we have used less gas than we would have had to use because we have renewables covering some of the generation

Gas is going up overall, but this is to cover the reduction in Coal and Oil generation. If renewables weren't there, either we'd need even more gas, or we'd need more coal and Oil generation as well as the gas.

Notice, renewables going up, Oil and Coal and Peat, going down, Gas relatively stable.

Will you stop with the nonsense.

The use of coal and oil tripled last year with coal up 14% and oil 7.5%.

If you do not believe that then go read the SEAI report for 2021.

2020 was a freak of a year in case you've forgotten