"Green" policies are destroying this country

Combining so many straw men into one post is an achievement

Hold on though.

Can you answer the question I’ve asked?

All you have given us is wishful thinking. You ignore what is happening on the other side of the extension cord, the authorities in each country in Western Europe are all pursing the same central plan, thinking they can tap into the other countries to make up supply differences, while at the same time removing reserve capacity they once had. The bigger you make the grid the more expensive it becomes to manage, since electricity can only be consumed when it is generated, each nations electricity consumers must bid against other Western European countries for the available supply. Politics will enter this and in extreme weather conditions the peripheral countries will be cut off to fend for themselves.

You awake yet? We're not talking about "roof space" were taking about planned industrial scale solar farms which will cover a min of 10000 acres.

It is estimated that Ireland will need nearly 10,000 acres of solar PV farms in order to meet its 2030 renewable energy targets.

Many of these industrial scale solar farms are already in the acquisition and planning stages.

Your "sure you will come back with some rubbish it aint possible" "Your so stuck... 

Do you seriously ever read the crap you write?

Yes I believe roof based installations are possible, and more of those projects should be in other places such as brownfield sites and other industrial locations.

Do keep up

You consistently leave out whole elements of grid management in your rush to declare the necessary changes impossible or unrealistic

Also market forces will cause investment to rush into industrial energy storage. We just need the fossil fuel lobbiests to get out of the way and yo ignore their demands for more and more subsidies for their increasingly unreliable and expensive products

I can guarantee you that these changes will happen. You need to look at sources that aren't fronts for the fossil fuel industry to see that the technology exists. We have so many technologies, there's almost too many to choose from. We just need to commit yo the necessary investments and thankfully the energy crisis seems to be the wakeup call needed

Sorry I just have to go back to this. And let me start with something you said yourself.

Blah blah whataboutery

Fine that you don't want to acknowledge the damage solar farms can do to the environment and landscape here, so you've decided to jump straight into the Amazon Rainforest. That there gets you the biggest whataboutery award going. Congrats!

And it doesn't matter if I or you "care" or don't care about habitats and trees and hedgerows. The fact is these get removed wholesale in windfarm installations. Something which is hardly acknowledged. Which is the point and not whataboutery.

If we pay the market rate they will sell us the gas.

If there are a few years whee we get shafted so be it, with every newly commissioned renewable asset, our dependence on that gas gets lower.

And our balance of trade and national wealth increases

Well in the majority of cases that would be brownfield sites imho

And no I didn't say anything about hedgerows being pointless. And neither did I mention biodiversity. Try and get it right for once.

Oh its only whataboutery when someone else does it?

From the significant environmental damage to the Irish landscape and hedgerows and wildlife, which you failed to acknowledge - straight into the Amazon Jungle and heres you keeping a straight face lol.

This when hedgerows and trees here are otherwise protected. That trees in Irish hedgerows make up approx 4% tree cover on the Island. That these treees are important for Co2 uptake etc. That to hedgerows make up important habitats for native Irish wildlife. But none of that is important according to you.

Grand so.

What if the UK decide to not allow the gas pass through to us regardless if we pay for it?

what happens then?

Also can we outbid the UK for gas?

Isn't it amazing how they find all these all remote places like Antarctica, the Arctic, coral atolls with little reliable measurement and extrapolate these doom laden conclusions. Isn't it amazing that coral has been around 400 million years (before even fish were around). Somehow the stuff has outlived the dinosaurs, amazing!

Think of all those dedicated "researchers" toiling away year after year making "visual surveys of fish communities" in the Seychelles! Twenty years of all-expense-paid vacations under such gruelling conditions. All the while lying by failing to acknowledge corals evolved to do exactly that: bleach to protect itself. The coral scam is about nothing more than university funding schemes to go on jollies.

Other than the fact the question has been asked by multiple posters on multiple occasions and has still not garnered a single credible reply, can I now take it that from your thanking a post that says should import gas while we ramp up renewables means you have changed your opinion that if the Green Party do not get their way on banning LNG then they should collapse the government ?

Or is it that you want to play pretend that no LNG will be in those pipelines!

Will this be in place in 2026?

I vaguely recall an interview many many years ago on RTE television featuring two English MPs and it revolved around the topic of energy security. The nuclear topic was bought up (Sellafield) where they pointed out that objecting to nucler plants is hypocritical since Irish consumers already used nuclear generated power via the inter-connector. They also pointed out in the event of a severe Winter where gas and electricity was in short supply that Ireland is at the end of the supply line and will be cut off by political enforcement to prevent British people freezing irrespective of any contracts in place between suppliers. There was not much comeback to that if I recall.