"Green" policies are destroying this country

That's because of Covid, those jobs are now being taken by Indian contract workers with companies getting grants from state agencies to do so. Limited rights and no room to complain.

Discretionary spending has dried up, pubs and restaurants that were closed by Covid will be closing again as people won't have any spare cash to spend in them.

And barryroe?

He/she knows it but refuses to accept it.

You do wonder where the magically money is going to come from to pay for this pie in the sky stuff. There is only so much taxing people will accept especially when the so called green initatives benefit the more affluent in society.

This energy crisis is a combination of factors that have been building for 2 decades and all come to head starting with the Covid lockdowns. One of the consequences is problems in integrated circuit production where the parts are not being produced or production runs are terminated and products are end of life. The spare parts are not being made and any available on the market are expensive and have much longer delivery times. This means that a modern tractor or car that needs repair may be out of service until the proprietary parts can be got. Without an operational tractor the field cannot be planted or harvested.

Another problem supply chains are breaking, if farmers cannot get feed (e.g. grain) for cattle in time, they have no choice but to sell the animals much sooner than expected. Natural gas is used to make nitrogen fertiliser, even before the war demand for gas outstripped supply and the price doubled, the reason for the supply/price imbalance was due to an extended cold Spring in Europe and a Summer with low wind that ran down gas supplies. Eveyone needed to go into the market at once to build up supplies for Winter resulting in price rises. Fertiliser is expensive and scarce, Farmers have to re-evaluate their planting and provisioning decisions and reduce their inputs, meaning their outputs are reduced and it is uneconomic to grow certain foods, i.e. no production and less employment (a lot of farming work is seasonal). This eventually translates to empty shelves.

No money, no debt can help when the goods are not being produced, you end up with is the classic too much money chasing too few goods. The cost of living keeps rising, people can no longer afford to work for previous wages, they either get a pay rise or they stop working, migrate or change jobs. The cost of production keeps rising. Cost pressures mean business must do more with less, i.e. workforce reduction or substitution with automation or outsourcing. Green policies are just one aspect of a multifaceted problem built around energy scarcity and exploding debt.

What other forms of renewables are actually viable to fill the gap in this country?

From that article by a solar panel salesman.

The more random energy is put in the grid the more expensive electricity becomes, look at Denmark and Germany. The reason is the balancing costs AND you need a to maintain a reserve of reliable generation plant and fuel for the frequent times wind and solar do not perform. The reserve generation does not go down as wind and solar increase, plus the fuel reserve actually goes up because the loss of wind and solar is bigger.

Nope. The independent survey shows that Barryroe contains large reserves of natural gas and oil. The company have stated just last month that they plan to proceed with an appraisal well at the field in 2023 (this is last step before extraction) subject to ministerial approval, which could pave the way first production in 2026. The main thing which is now seems to be holding up the final phase is Mr Ryans stonewalling.

Jesus.

You are an absolute melt 😂🤦‍♂️.

I knew you were a WUM.

You haven’t answered a damn thing.

Looks like all those cheap solar panals so loved by Europeans and manufactured in factories power by Chinese coal and/or with slave labour could well be a thing of the past.

That is the modern Greens summed up alright. If they went back to the core principles of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - then they'd get a bit more respect. But to get bums on seats and ministries, they need to buy into the growth model and so we hear Mr.Ryan trumpeting about Ireland being a leader in Green Technology. Buy, sell, churn the market - all OK as long as it's Green tech.

More Saudi Arabia of wind type nonsense, like all these schemes big on hype and light on detail. Come back to me when you have a zero-carbon solution that works reliably in the winter, when energy demand is highest but sunshine is lowest and winds can drop for days at a time.

the west are responsible for the growth of china in the first place by farming lots of it's manufacturing out there for cheap labour so it is not in a position to criticise china on that issue.

That at least one major player is now poised to extract large volumes of natural gas shows you are incorrect.

The current economic situation and global security issues means our national reserves are now more viable than ever. And Barryroe is certainly not the only potential natural resource which is now both strategically important and viable.

it's you and others unable to except the necessary reality going on about us sorting out the plannet.

what we are doing will sort ourselves out a hell of a lot more and benefit us a hell of a lot more then the plannet and that is why we need to do it regardless of whatever our contribution to the plannet may be.

our economy isn't being destroyed and it's wholesale prices dictated by the market that are causing energy price increases which will be effecting china and india to an extent as well.

whatever cheap energy china and india may have access to won't last long as coal is finite and at the rates both countries are extracting and burning it will be gone in the next few decades.

so china are producing solar pannels and EVS, so what? that is the choice the west has made to farm out manufacturing to there decades ago rather then keeping it in house, they could undo that but don't want to and won't do so because it's cheap.

either way, not an argument against the necessary modernisation we are going to have to go through to cut costs, clean up the place and deal with the huge levels of polution we have as well as take back our cities.

modernisation is happening, it's over and the times oh they are a changing.