"Green" policies are destroying this country

Wind turbine blades generally last between 20 and 25 years, not the 10 years mentioned in that post, and they can be recycled. GE for example are selling them to a company that uses them to make cement in a way that cuts out a quarter of the CO2 emissions from the cement manufacturing process

A major wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas Wind Systems have announced a new type of resin that can be dissolved and allows the composite to be broken down and recycled. They intend to begin using this within 3 years. Governments need to step up and ban turbine blades from landfill. this will force all manufacturers and operators to be more creative in ways to recycle them or dispose of them responsibly. The industry is working on solutions to these problems.

BTW, the life of a wind turbine is about the same as the life of a commercial jet, you don't hear to many of these people opposed to wind generation whinging about all those unrecyclable fiberglass and composite jets cluttering up the deserts of Arizona

Which ones?

Not solar, because there are plenty of times when both wind and sun are very weak (Winter high pressure)

Not wave because its not scalable

Not tidal because we don't have enough suitable locations

I'm delighted to see the public is finally wising up to the "green" party and how much damage they are doing. Famers have been saying it for years but now that why they are doing is finally effecting all of Ireland we can give them the boot.

what damage have they done? what are you blaming them for?

A balanced grid is one where if one source is out, especially for maintenance, then others are capable of making up the shortfall. We have now because of years putting resources into wind energy left ourselves in the position that if one gas burning plant is off-line for maintenance we are looking at rooling Winter blackouts or importing nuclear fueled energy.

I have continually asked where this 70% green energy is going to come from within the next 8 years as I can see nothing much in the pipeline, or at least nothing much practical, other than wind. We already have around 30% being supplied from wind but we know it is not a constant reliable source as winds drop. Yet we are ploughing ahead to create even more dependency on wind with no backup plan I can see. So to ask the question yet again, where other than wind is this 70% supposed to be achieved and what source or sources will balance the grid when the wind is not blowing ? Other than importing nuclear from France I have heard nothing from either the Green party or their supporters here.

Tyrical green`s rosy glassses. Using a poll that shows support for the greens at 7% while ignoring that 93% want nothing to do with them.

It`s a political poll where people are asked which party they would support if there was a general election tomorrow. As such it represents the percentage that support either a party`s policies or has been recently influenced by a party`s performance. At 7% I cannot see any way to dress it up other than it being very minor support for the Green party on either.

No need to go anywhere. The Green party are front and center on green initiatives and they poll just 7%.

Are you saying that was a mistake ?

Big difference between burning large volumes of peat in inefficient power stations and the provision of peat moss as a growing medium in our horticultural industry. We do aspire to grow vegetables and plants in this state, do we not? Rather than ship and fly everything in?

Thats the price we have to pay to live "greener"

Crippling our ability to grow plants and fruit and veg? Check

Rolling blackouts and sky high electricity prices? Check

Whats next on the green agenda, sterilisation? It would certainly reduce CO2!

Offshore wind, pumped storage and high voltage interconnects. See it wasn't so difficult was it.

Nuclear is implicitly risky, high cost for accidents. No complex system is entirely predictable and risk free so you can expect a meltdown event every few decades. If the hadn't stopped chernobyle from melting into the water table it would have rendered most of Europe uninhabitable.

Sited correctly and connected together renewables could provide all of our power given the will to make it happen and generate the geopolitical stability which would allow much of our electricity to come from north Africa. There is also pngoong work to tap the geothermal power of Iceland at comparable levels to multiple nuclear power stations

Ireland can provide most of it's gas needs through a network of biodigesters taking in slurry, grass and miniciple waste, producing high grade fertilizer and solving Ireland's pressing water quality issues.

What is the problem here is small minded people saying it can't be done whilst the brilliant visionary engineers just get on and do it. The task is on a par with the first fossil fuel electrification which didn't happen overnight and doubtless was plagued by naysayer