"Green" policies are destroying this country

There is a website discussing the proposals, i advocate reading it. The bottom line with Renewables are that they become more reliable the bigger the interconnected network. The is the strategic plan been built across Europe as we speak and Wiki has a nice map of the built and proposed HVDC network linking all corners of Europe. The recent opening of a HVDC line from Norway to the UK shows what is possible and means that Norway who have invested almost all their North Sea Oil revenues into wind and hydro can export their significant excess and become earners of revenue. This is what is available to Ireland through projects such as Spirit of Ireland. In such a scenario we would be importing and exporting renewables from as far afield as North Africa and the Russian stepps. All technically possible with current technology and the knock on benefit is that an interdependent world is a more secure one since the costs of conflict are amplified.

I have little issue with importing French Nuclear overnight to sell back to the French in peak demand times, but installing a single watt of Nuclear on Irish soil is costly folly which fortunately will never happen. Nuclear is old dead technology which can no longer obtain finance because of its implicit costs and a total inability to insure against its risks - renewables have overtaken it and all the sensible investment money is acting on this inevitability.

So when the Greens are gone from next election, and even though I vote Green I want them gone completely with no seats from next Dail, just to see who rural Ireland and the angry boardsies will blame for all the Green climate agenda stuff when they're gone.

I would imagine they'll still blame the Greens though, even when it wasn't the Greens I knew it was the Greens. FG/FF/Sinn Fein or whoever aren't just going to ignore the climate bill and whatever measures are agreed at COP26 happening pretty soon.

One way or another a lot needs to change.

The problem I see is all the mixed messaging. Turf burning being just one example.

We fought a mini war with farrmers over cutting turf for the sake of the planet and now we are importing it. People were told diesel was the way to go, and that has been a disaster on numerous levels. At one stage wood pellets were the way to go, even though or home grown timber was so high in moisture content the pellets had to transported half way around the world or our home grow dried to the level where it took more energy to dry it as it produced, and now burning timber is a no no in any form anyway.

In all those cases we had the zealots telling us those were the ways to go. Some believed them and got burned, while many others looked on and saw them getting burned. Or in the case of diesel where practically everyone got sucked in. Nobody is denying climate change, but can you blame them for being very wary of large financial layouts on green energy systems based on the theories of the same zealots. Especially when the figures from them vary so much and going down the road we have been is now threatening Winter blackouts on top of rising carbon taxes to pay for it.

What age did you say you were again.

100 per cent agree. Its important that rural voters highlight the stupidity of the Greens policies at every opportunity.

With the cost of energy, heating oil and the appalling weather where I live I am going flying out of Ireland for the next 6 months, I can rent a nice one bedroom apartment for €350-€375 per month and my house will bring this in every week. I won't see temps below 28-30c for the entire time. Everything will be cheaper and I can work from home abroad. I am in the process of getting a mobile home installed on some farmland to act as my summer home when I'd come back from Mid-April onwards. Short days, incessant non-stop rain, extreme costs, a rural depressing existence is triggering the move. I met a man from Norway years ago in Thailand and he was doing the same thing and said the cost of heating his home for winter would nearly keep him in Thailand the same time. No wonder it is so popular with Nordic people due them getting no daylight for months.

Green party themselves are a quasi-religious cult with a puritanical outlook, shouldn't be let anywhere

They're the same technology in the sense that my Avensis is the the same technology as a Lamborghini.

The maximum discharge rate of the LiFePO4 battery I'm looking at in my house right now cannot boil a kettle without help from the grid.

If your plan is to instal the equivalent of an EV battery in everyone's home in addition to carpeting every roof with solar panels, we might have to revisit that €20B I quoted earlier. Perhaps triple or quadruple it. Don't forget it's a recurring cost. Panels and batteries have a lifespan.

How does this re-wilding work, like who pays for it? I have land that I have let out to another farmer at the moment but if someone was to pay me the same as I'm getting now I would have no problem with letting some of it that has gone a bit rough out for rewilding. win, win for everyone.

So who do I contact about this?

Exactly, what options do the sector of society have that buy their home heating oil by the 5 gallon drum?

I`m not a major fan of intensive livestock farming, but going back to the old traditional way will result in higher prices. Not something people will want to hear on top of increased carbon taxes.

It`s a bit of a myth that by re-wilding land everything will be honky dory. Sheep were banned from grazing many mountain uplands some years back as a conservation level. Problem was that sheep keep heather under control and uncontroled heather growth in wet weather holds a lot of water. The resulting lanslides caused an about turn.

Just another example of what looked like a good idea, after causing a lot of discord, going tits up from not listening to the people who actually knew the areas not being listened too by those that thought they knew best.