"Green" policies are destroying this country

Sorry yeah meant TV. Never visit their website.

Germany is cutting €45 Billion from their Climate and Transformation Fund over the next 3 years. €12 Billion of that this year. Their economy shrank by over one trillion euro in 2023.

RTE has an economist masquerading as their Environment Correspondent whose contribution is nothing more than sitting in news studio looking like a ventriloquist`s dummy with a pained constipated look on his face regurgitating green party and their pet NGO`s press releases.

As a supposedly independent public broadcaster hansomely funded by the Irish tax payers the country would be better served by RTE using him in the area he actually has a qualification in, economics, taking a look at where this green revolution has brought Germany and by extension, due to their past economic clout, the E.U. It`s not as if it would require a heavy investment. He could do it from a desk in Montrose.

With all we have seen happening in Germany, (very little of it from RTE), you would wonder why our brave independent taxpayer funded public broadcaster has shied away from doing just that. But then with Eamon Ryan being Minister for Communications, and Catherine Martin the Media Minister and controller of the purse strings not upsetting them looks to be RTE`s priority.

18 January 2024

Sunset - 4:41PM Solar gone to bed for the night.

Wind speed - not too many revolution on the wind turbines.

Temperatures - Need the heating on.

electricity demand: peaked at ~6979 MW yesterday, expect similar today

...yup, sh1t breaks, and sometimes unexpectedly, strange fact alright, and if you think fossil fuel tech never broke unexpectedly,........

So you believe that not just one of these floating wind turbines but all of them, that now have to be towed from Hywind in Scotland to Wergeland in Norway after just 6 years into a supposedly 28 lifespan, (some said here at one stage replacing a few odds and ends in situ would greatly extend that 28 years) for, as Equinor termed it "heavy maintenance", has nothing to do with the enviroment in which they were floating ?

If I purchased very very expensive "sh1t" as you termed it that required "heavy maintenance" barely more than 20% into it`s supposedly lifespan I wouldn`t be throwing good money after bad repeating the mistake.

Dont worry burn away itll be grand, little auld Ireland will solve the world's climate change crisis all on its own💪💪

Cleaner? You mean like eliminating all the litter and fly tipping? That would be great.

That has nothing at all to do with green ideology though.

The quickest way we can reduce our energy emissions is to import more power via the interconnectors.

We could buy wood from Brazil and generate all our electricity from burning it. Technically that would make a large difference to our emissions. We could even do a barter with them and send all our cattle back on the empty wood boats seeing as they are increasing their cattle numbers. That would reduce our emissions even more.

Luckily we seldom get as cold as Norway. Buses don't do well in the Oslo cold. Lesson learned they need to be connected to an extension lead as often as possible ...

Seems like the fixed route electric tram has solved that.

Both Bus Eireann and customers are themselves discovering the economic, features and comforts of electric buses in Athlone.

• Intending passengers need to put on extra clothing layers during the Winter and open the windows wide in the Summer.
• The last bus home is one hour earlier.
• Bus Eireann can't start charging the buses until midnight.
• More expensive that diesel to operate.
• Battery storage capacity declines 30% in 12 to 18 months. Remember buses on the go every day.
• Replacing batteries costs ~€100K

See - ‘If you turn up the heat on cold days, the range reduces’ – TD hits out as Bus Éireann admits battery problems with electric buses pilot | Independent.ie

There was no sunshine, The wind was too strong, the turbines had to be stopped during peak electricity demand.

So, there's a draft Offshore policy as of today.

Eamon and Co have doubled down on their 37GW by 2050. A 54 page policy you say, surely it must reason out the techno economic benefits for the consumers in arriving at that figure? Nope. The word "cost" features 10 times in the document, usually coupled with "effective" or "competitive" but not a single price is present. Apparently magic interconnectors we don't have (and come at €1.5 billion per 700MW themselves) and copious amounts of green hydrogen (which itself is incredulously expensive) is the solution. Magic beans indeed.

https://www.gov.ie/en/consultation/747c7-consultation-on-the-offshore-renewable-energy-ore-future-framework-policy-statement/

I could actually see the rational behind the offshore hydrogen plan of 50% generation for consumpion and 50% for hyrogen generation for when for extended periods it`s not windy out. Or even when it`s too windy out as we saw from wind generation yesterday. Problem was the rational bit the dust when it came to the overall financial cost plus a hopium of hydrogen working to scale.

Now even that tenuous rational has gone out the window. Eirgrid are prediction consumption by 2050 to be 14 GW. 37 GW of offshore under the wind hydrogen plan will only provide 7.2 GW. Half of what will be required, even when it is windy out. Still no costing but rather a hypothetical exercise into how much we can make from the sales of excess offshore wind or hydrogen neither of which we will have from 37 GW.

It`s insanity.