"Green" policies are destroying this country

As true as this is, I don't think even the US military think that they'll be able to bomb climate change into submission

The US militaryregard Climate change as a threat multiplier, and they're right.

When the rains fail, and the crops fail, and there are water shortages, People will either revolt or migrate, and either of these can be destabilising on regional to global scale (the more of these events that occur within a short timescale, the bigger the threat multiplier.

The French revolution was brewing for a long time before it kicked off, but it was triggered when food prices spiked and the people were starving while the aristocrats were living lives of opulence. The US elites would not take too kindly to a 21st century version of the reign of terror enforced with AR15s instead of Guilotines

I think if you check much of the thread, you'll find the majority of people are not against renewable energy generation. They are posters who have detailed their own experiences of domestic renewable energy generation, others who are supportive of these technologies and also those genuinely interested in renewable energy generation as a new and potentially positive direction But some are rightly questioning the specific application of green party policy and rightly so. Slavishly and unquestionably agreeing with everything an one policy political party are choosing to dictate would neither be logical nor advisable in any democracy. imho there are certainly areas where the greens fall down imho and where their policies are not logical or do not necessarily make sense. Personally I'd prefer to see people stepping up and calling that out than not.

The UAE nuclear power station is one of the most recent built. It cost less per GW than the next large offshore wind farm to be built off Scotland. But that's only half the picture, because the availability of power from that expensive offshore farm will only be about 52%, whereas the UAE reactors should be 96%, so in reality, the wind farm isn't just a bit more expensive, it's considerably more expensive because of needing to pay for some other infrastructure and fuel to fill in that large 48% hole.

This massively more expensive nuclear you are mentioning is all in your head.

Based on what you posted to date you haven`t the grace to acknowledge you made false accusations, but no matter. That is on you.

Similar to some here I have supported political party manifesto, that when it came to them being enacted, unfortunately in some cases the manifesto was a pile of lies on certain issues. On others, partly my own fault for not querying certain policies, when they were enacted I didn`t feel they represented what I voted for and had just been dressed up to gain votes. That is not to say that as situations change then commitments may have to change, but nowadays I do not take manifestos just at face value.

You on the other hand are on here defending a pricing regime that has us paying way over the odds on electricity, which until told about here today you hadn`t a clue on. You are also quite happy to support a policy that while shutting down plants and downgrading others while happy to make up the shortfall from a renewables policy using natural gas and nuclear, but is determined not to grant exploration licences for natural gas. That policy did not appeal to me and still does not. I find it hypocritical. Neither does this present stance of not even giving consideration to reopening two recently closes turf burning plants which does not encourage me to vote for them in the future either.

Greens policy of shouting down any discussion on nuclear over the years never appealed to me either, so I find it ironic that nuclear is now regarded by the E.U. as a transition energy source, same as natural gas. I also felt they were over-selling wind energy, as any fool should have realised that the wind is not a consistent and reliable source.

I said earlier that I can understand that as situations change then manifesto commitments may have to change as well. It`s very clear that we will require natural gas as a failsafe for unreliable renewables for many years to come. With the present crisis where Europe is facing massive cuts in natural gas supplies, the Irish Green party and their supporters defending their policy of us not building and operating our own LNG terminal is just batsh1t crazy.

I`m assuming they are still determined to shut Tarbert by next year and Moneypoint two years later which will leave us even more dependent on natural gas. If they are, then far as I`m concerned that goes in the crazy column as well.

Where does all the extra electric come from to replace all of the petrol and diesel fuel being burned in just cars alone?

Exploration in Ireland is undertaken by license. Companies undertake exploration based on a cost / value basis so where oil and gas prices are high internationally - exploration demands and value increase.

Todate gas exploration licenses have been awarded at the Kinsale Head, Ballycotton, Seven Heads and Corrib fields. From 1978 to 1995, Kinsale Head along with Ballycotton and Sevens Head, supplied all of Ireland's gas. Corrib field contributed the equivalent of 50% of Ireland's gas consumption. In addition the finding of the Barryroe oilfield of Ireland’s South Coast has the potential to provide the 120,000 barrels of oil a day that Ireland consumes, and a proportion of the gas needed to generate about 60 per cent of its electricity. Current licences for exploration are held by Equinor and Europa Oil & Gas.

The fact that Ireland requires a safe, secure and dependable source of gas is without question. Being wholly dependant on imports of an increasingly scarce, expensive and necessary resource is a now a very serious issue for the country as a whole. And if additional gas fields are not found, there will always be those who will be only too delighted.

Not worth two squarts of goats p1ss if they allow finished products to be imported without the emissions tariffs on them as all it will do is put EU industry at a further competitive disadvantage against imports.