"Green" policies are destroying this country

deniers seriously do show up their lack of intelligence with such matters!

Long before Californian celebrities and the well heeled decided it was a good idea to build homes surrounded by brushwood, nature had found its own ways of dealing with brushwood.

Long before California became famous for celebrities it was famous for the Giant Redwood Sequoia, which without nature burning off the brushwood on the forest floor to provide both space and heat to open the sequoia cones allowing them to germinate and grow, the Giant Redwood would now be extinct.

Building predominantly timber houses surrounded by brushwood without recognising the risk of them burning is like building on a flood plain ignoring the risk of flooding.

It has been more or less like that for some time now, where some of these green groups have been running to the High Court with anything that is even vaguely related to climate change as being in the national interest without having to put their hands in their pockets win or lose knowing local communities cannot afford to challenge not having the same protection.

It`s one of the reasons I`m happy to see rural independents making up the next government rather than Labour or the SD`s. It leaves FG & FF no one to hide behind on issues like this.

“But an immediate end to business as usual is a precondition for planetary survival.” He set out the science behind this assertion, adding: “The problem is that the problem is so big that to even describe it factually sounds like scaremongering.”

Activist climate scientists are a big enough problem without judges getting in on the act. This is truly alarming. Anyone who paints this as a "precondition for planetary survival" is not following the science, they are exploring the outer reaches of the lunatic fringe.

So you'd spend €7.5 billion for two hours of backup storage? How about 24 hours, 48 hours etc. Even given that average electricity consumption is a bit less than half of peak, a week's worth of backup would cost €340 billion. Even the people making a ton of money out of this technology don't believe BESS is viable for anything other than peak shaving. It would be quite literally insane. Remember, it doesn't generate a single electron. You could have a nuclear reactor in every county for that money (three times as many as we'd need), and still be wondering how many children's hospitals to build with the leftovers.

If your car won't charge unless it's at +4c there's something wrong with it.

Norway the average winter temp is -7 and go to -40 in parts. Bjorn has at least one video charging at -10 on a home charger.

I charged mine at -3/-5 a few times during the week, and it preheated just fine the following morning. In previous years I've had the 12v battery freeze in my petrol car at -10 which was a new thing. There's ways around that if you've a bit of sense.

This time I was surprised just how many were out cycling. More than I expected.

How is it possible to be on here as long as you have been and still not understand what net zero emissions for generation means.

You know yourself, if you need an expert opinion on electric cars, ask somebody who doesn't own one 🤣🤣🤣

But seriously I had a huge argument with a (now former) Green party TD on my doorstep when he suggested I trade the car in and buy a bike.

I think the EV V ICE debate needs to change to a car V public transport/cycling one. Car drivers should stick together regardless of what fuel the car takes

Fully agreed, I always laugh when somebody says "do you think your saving the planet with your Tesla"

For anybody wondering, no, no I don't think I am saving the planet. I'm driving a car that's saving me a fortune in fuel, it might be better for the planet but it's still not "good" for it

I'd like to contribute to saving the planet by cycling or using public transport, who wouldn't? I simply don't have that ability unless I want to be consistently late and sweaty to work.

Agree, I for one was unaware of these specifics prior to reading through this thread and am grateful to those who are prepared time and time again to refute the greenwashing pulpit bashing, pursued by a small number of extremely vociferous pro, at any cost, current green policy contributors.