"Green" policies are destroying this country

The sector that’s at the time of this post is 3rd dirtiest in Europe behind Poland and … Germany?

Funny how after building 9GW of wind and solar we still have to burn so much gas and only manage to produce 1.3 out of 5.3 this fine evening eh??

I`m sick sore and tired replying to posters in good faith who ignore what my reply was and come back with imaginary figures off the top of their head. @roosterman71 has in great detail laid out for you just how much those figures of your are a complete nonsense, and the idiocy of Irish greens when it comes to agriculture is undeniable at this stage. A collection of numerically illiterates who believe money grows on trees and finance rectitude is a planet in a far distant galaxy.

In the main a collective who detest anything rural other than the countryside being turned into a wasteland for their viewing pleasure. While an OECD - FAO report showing that beef demand was projected to rise by 13% and butter by 3% - 4.4% annually, the Irish Green Party, in a country that has among the worlds highest traceability and inspection standards, were threatening to walk out of government if they didn`t get their way on culling cattle over methane emissions while Brazil, Australia, Argentina etc were increasing their herds to fill the demand. Do we have some special breed of methane super emitters that no other country has ? Because if we do not then it was insanity of the highest order.

I have already explained to you where our current plan has got us too on emissions and how continuing to follow it will achieve nothing other than bankrupt the country and still have us paying the world`s highest electricity charges. But if you can show otherwise, then be my guest. If you even attempt to you would be the first, because anyone I have asked the same off has not come back with a single figure. Loads of waffle alright, but not so much as a single figure.

Totally agree on solar for use in private, or state buildings etc. but for a grid provider I don`t see it as making much sense for the financial cost as to what we would get from it with its low capacity factor when we would need it. Especially during winter when our demand is highest

China killed green manufacturing by pricing everyone else out of the market by using cheap coal to manufacture green tech, solar panels especially.

we should also use slave labour yeh?

“Renewables” don’t grow naturally on bushes in China where happy peasants pick em for you

As has been illustrated they are part of a “greenwashing” supply chain based on burning coal and extraction and refining of mountains of rare and toxic minerals and metals and building materials like concrete

A supply chain that relies on slave and forced labour to add insult to injury

And still needs to be replaced every twenty years due to wear and tear

And as per the Guardian report linked higher up contains backdoors and kill switches which Chinese can use to bring down our grid, and are already openly threatening democratic EU processes

Btw I noticed that you avoided supporting made in EU and continued to defend Chinese destruction of European industries and jobs (look what that done to US and their politics), what a sell out. Why does the modern green tinted Left hate the EU and the idea of people having jobs so much?

The Left was all up in arms (rightly) about Trumps nonsense about Greenland, yet when it comes to China or Russia or Iran wanting to destroy our institutions they suddenly fall silent at best or openly support em at worst

22x more co2 than France we are producing at time of this post on this fine morning

We should just give the French that 28 billion we will have to handover to EU

and have them produce electricity for us and fire everyone in our “green” scam electric sector that is double in price too add insult to injury when it comes to bills

I`ve heard worse ideas.

Last year French nuclear net exports balance was 92.3 TWh for which they charged €58 per MWh earning €5.4 Billion. Under ARENH they were also compelled to supply French renewable companies with 100 TWh at €42 per MWh to keep them in business. Here for 2025 our average wholesale price was €114 per MWh.

in 2025 our total demand was 32 TWh and even at that we still imported 14.6% of that 32 TWh attempting to shield the real level of emissions of this failed plan we are following.

First of all we can’t even get LNG in Ireland as greens blocked construction of a terminal when they were in power, all the gas comes from either Corrib and a single pipeline

Secondly, we built 9GW of wind and solar, and what do we have to show for it? Co2 emissions that are an order of magnitude larger than France and second highest electricity prices in Europe, and capacity factor of 30% (wind) and 10% (solar) which means most of time we are burning gas

Yet somehow “more” of the same shite (which will cost hundreds of billions euro) will solve the problem instead of digging us into a bigger hole

They do that (district heating from nuclear) in the radioactive wasteland country of Finland

No wonder most of the population supports nuclear there, electric prices that are half of ours (while making 6x less co2) are a bonus!

country didn’t fall apart but it does have one of the dirtiest grids in Europe (precisely because we are so dependent on gas now to backup unreliable renewables) with highest electricity prices completely dependent on a single pipeline, if anything were to happen to it we would be plunged into the Stone Age for a year

https://theliberal.ie/govt-petrified-as-ireland-is-now-severely-vulnerable-to-major-impact-of-gas-supply-disruption/

offshore doesn’t help as you only get 40% capacity factor instead of 30% for onshore wind, so still burning gas most of the time