"Green" policies are destroying this country

There was no rabbit hole. Just a question that required a simple yes or no.

Your weaseling attempts to avoid doing so doesn`t leave much room for drawing incorrect inclusions on your attitude to rules and regulations that do not suit you, compared to those that do. That you have made that clear doesn`t say much for your posting integrity which is no skin off my nose.

Shadow flicker if you've experienced it is very disconcerting and annoying. It tends to happen as sunset/sunrise depending on where your property is in relation to the turbines. Luckily cloudy days limit the number of occurrences. I planted laurel hedging around the property to limit it in the evenings, once established it will grow fast. Noise becomes an issue when you are downwind of the turbines, again hedging is needed to dampen the effect. As the turbines age they are more likely to squeak and squeal. Imagine listening to a large squeaky wheel at night when there is just a light breeze blowing.

I have a Rayburn that does my heating, cooking and hot water all off turf. It works through any power cuts at a fraction the price of any other source and lots of rural Ireland have the same as me, only an idiot would change away from it atm. The time will come where turf will naturally wain but the greens with their mad carbon taxes have extended its lifespan by numerous more years

I grew up with a turf burning Stanley and later a Rayburn. Both used for the cooking and gave us all the heat and hot water we needed and as you say a lot of them still working away doing the same and I doubt any sane person will be throwing them out, especially now.

I often think that rather than sitting in sealed boxes totally dependent on electricity, it would do greens no harm to get out on the bog and get a bit of fresh air rather than pontificating on turf in Ireland while being Chinese fanboys of green tech produced by coal burning energy and smelting plants that within a few hours add more to global emission than turf burning in Ireland does in a year. It might give them a bit of perspective which they are sadly lacking in.

Fossil fuel companies use propaganda to oppose nuclear where nuclear is threatening to replace Fossil fuels, and they also use Pro-Nuclear propaganda when Renewables are threatening to replace Fossil fuels.

Have you ever played even a simple card game? Different strategies for different hands

If you don't think they are doing this, you're naive

Renewables are the number 1 threat to Fossil fuels profits. The fossil fuel conglomerates know this. Nuclear is an old industry, they kmow it's not a threat to them because they're still here despite 70 years of Nuclear power.

Prolonged periods? So about 1% of the time (actually much much less than this) the sun will be shining through the wind turbines.

I have trees behind my house, for a few minutes a day, the sun shines through those leaves into my kitchen and creates a strobe effect.

I get on with it. If I had epilepsy, I'd probably close the blinds

If you saw your neighbour pouring toxic chemicals into a river, would you report them?

Of course I would, but from the posting by some here I very much doubt they would if they thought it was some inane save the planet stunt. They would more than likely tell them they were a good man/woman.

It will be different in every case, it's all likely to be criminal damage and they will all face either hefty fines, and/or some time in jail

So polluting water is bad, but polluting the air is ok?

Farting pollutes the air, so are we now going to report neighbours for that as well ?

Care to explain why Irish wind prices went up 30% in two years?