"Green" policies are destroying this country

Where was "just wind referred to"? But on that subject, solar is also not a reliable renewable energy generation source in Ireland.

And remember you're the one introducing the idea that all we need is LOADS more renewables and we won't need natural gas and sur' we'll all be grand. Germany's high percentage of renewables shows exactly how you are wrong.

Have you lost the plot completely.

I never said or even suggested that if we had a nuclear plant we would randomly be flicking on and of the switch.

The "We could use nuclear if there is a surplus available and it is there when we need it" was in reference to us being up the Swanny and having to go scrounging around other countries for supply.

Unless you have also lost the ability to read and comprehend along with the plot, that is more than clear from my post, so stop acting the eejit.

All I can say by tonight performance is the green party has only its junior members manning its social media feed 😅

So even more spoofing in your comment there, got you.

"You mentioned about wind"

Wrong. I made no mention of the word "wind" at all in that comment You really should check before trying to make stuff up

I referred to the problems regarding reliability with renewable energy generation overall and as an example detailed how

The problem is renewable energy production is inherently unreliable as seen this winter in Ireland and across Europe

And as an example of that linked an article providing details on the widespread problems encountered with with the lack of wind generation right across Europe. However the fact that the European renewable grid "was not just wind" had little or no impact on the fact that European countries had massive down turns in renewable energy generation this winter.

Bizarrely trying to dismis that by saying "renewables grid is not just wind" was an extremely stupid attempt at pedantism. But hey not really surprised there

And it was already explained to you that it's not only wind power which is unreliable, solar is also an unreliable renewable energy generation source in Ireland.

I do agree that so far there's been a lot of ranting and raving from two posters who seem to have no idea about energ. Here's one of the best yet with you bizarrely claiming that.

"Ireland does not have any... gas"

😅🤣😂

Btw you are now off again making stuff up.

No one has suggested the link for importing natural gas from the uk is not used. I have already provided the statistics in several other comments on current natural gas imports several times.

But more importantly in Ireland Natural gas is the largest source of electricity generated, accounting for 52% of all electricity generated in 2020.

So no its definitely not a case of simply "having a gas link so if we need a backup in rare situations this already is in place."

Gas is needed when the renewable share of electricity generation falls.

Natural gas is needed for the foreseeable future and not just in "rare situations" because to put it simply Renewables are inherently unreliable

So as previous your comments have been been called out by several posters as complete spoof and utter rubbish and unfortunately that really hasn't changed.

The standing charge increases are effecting you too, no matter how much you generate yourself.

You keep telling me your age.

I'm not too far off your age and I remember the horrific famines that have afflicted the likes of Somalia over the years.

These will continue but climate change will make them much more widespread.

The logic from climate change deniers and apologists is 'Climate changed in the past therefore it's normal' or 'Famines happened in the past, therefore its normal'

The problem is yes, climates have changed, famines have happened, but the scale of the problem will be way beyond anything we have ever experienced before.

The world can send Bob Geldof and Bono in to rescue a few hundred thousand Ethiopians on the brink of starvation. Who's going to be able to save the few billion on the brink of starvation if large parts of the worlds wheat and rice crops fail in the same year, at the same time when there are droughts and heatwaves affecting large parts of the highly populated subtropical regions

The IPCC report from 2 weeks ago warns of the increasing likelihood of convergent weather extremes happening. As extremes become more normal, it's more likely that crops will fail in multiple locations at once, that wildfires will burn in one region while devastating floods happen a few weeks later...

We've already seen this happen in Australia this year BTW, and that's at 1.2c. We could get to 4c within decades

Seriously, you people have your heads so deeply buried in the sand...

Why do you insist on spoofing when you have been caught out doing it so often ?

You have made this claim a number of times now, even after being told I never said or even suggested that the state was seeking to build a a LNG terminal in Kerry. I asked you to show me where you believed I did either, and yet again just rinse and repeat spoofing.

I am well aware of how electricity is priced, and how much renewables we use in electricity generation. More so than you evidentially as the percentages you posted does not even tally with the link you provided in the same post.

There is nothing in your links to answer the question I have asked you, so rather than attempting to spoof, avoid and distract why will you not answer ?

With the percentage of renewables used in the generation of electricity, the vast bulk of that wind energy, if wind power is this cheap energy source that so much taxpayers money has been poured into that you and others keep claiming it is, then why, even before this crisis, we were in the top 4 in the E.U. with the highest charges.

It`s not as if this is unique to Ireland either. Germany which claims to produce more electricity from renewables, (again the bulk being from wind) than from fossil fuels combined is even more expensive for electricity than we are.