"Green" policies are destroying this country

Moffett is part of our long term transition policy, so yeah of course we rely on Moffett. But if the entire European continent had to cope without any renewables, the price of gas would have been much much higher globally (including gas sourced from the Corrib gas Field) and we'd probaby be in a recession along with putting up with severe energy rationing. Putin might have won the war because Europe would been in a much worse position.

This is the thing with energy. it requires a mix of different types of generation. Renewables, far from, being the bogeyman described by the regulars on this thread, has kept energy prices lower, and has helped to keep the lights on this winter. Having renewables allowed the gas reserves to fill up, it reduced the wholesale prices for gas, which directly affects the cost of electricity.

We now know that we cannot trust the likes of Russia or OPEC to supply us with gas reliably.) We also know we cannot continue to burn Coal (climate change This is why Europe is moving away from Gas, and towards Renewables, with hydrogen and other forms of storage.

It is about comparable to Nuclear. And Nuclear also requires full backup for the times when, lets say, half of your entire capacity unexpectedly goes offline for 6 months at a time.

If you're going to compare two things, you need to make a fair comparison. Nuclear needs backup, just like wind and solar and gas and coal etc

Right now, we're using Gas to back-up renewables. By the time a nuclear power plant would have come on-line, we'll have interconnectors and hydrogen storage for long term backup with BESS for short term backup.

Your 10s of billiions worth of expensive nuclear power plant would be a massive white elephant.

There are 2 pipelines, there was supposed to be a 3rd bi-directional pipeline but it was never completed.

Easy mistake to make and not particularly relevant given that we don't physically export gas to the UK or Norway (any gas sold to the UK is done through accounting rather than physical transfer)

LCOE includes capacity factor

so the 'availability' is irrelevant. Nuclear requrires backup whether it's offline 1% of the time, or 99% of the time

Nuclear being centralised has fewer points of failure, so one mechanical error could knock out 50% of the grid

Renewables are decentralised and when storage is part of the routine operation we don't have expensive infrastructure sitting ther mothballed (but ready to run at a moments notice) for years until it's needed

The greens, being the smallest party in a 3 party coalition are, of course, responsible for doing everything

The reverse of the 'no true scotsman fallacy'

Anyone who does anything I disagree with is 'green leaning#, therefore all 'bad things' are 'green' and everything I disagree with is a bad policy

'the real world' where Nuclear is declining and renewables are rapidly overtaking all of the traditional fossil fuel infrastructure