"Green" policies are destroying this country

The fact that I didn't previously correct your frequent mistakes calling it p2.5 is down to politeness on my part

It looks as if you are attempting to avoid @Mecanudo`s, but no matter.

Seeing as your were casting doubts on The Farmers Journal article I posted, do you now have doubts about the SEAI report as well for 2021 that I also posted, that shows from the drop in renewable energy electricity generation last year just how unreliable renewables are as an energy source ?

Eamo adding briquettes to his ban list eventhough Pippa 79votes is telling people to burn them. GREENS imploding?

The very odd and bizarre thing is it seems to be the greens once again engaging in a very deliberate programme of misinformation and disinformation. Who do they think they are? Vladimir Putin and friends?

Peat Briquettes were already designated for the ash heap with Bord Na Mona having decided to cease production within the next two years

I guess its yet another tilting at windmills effort that they will try and claim victory over.

What?

This thread has truly jumped the shark

Which part did you not get . That greens and environmentalists being such apparent experts on bogs had no problem with building windfarms on them that could, and did, cause landslides, or that from your posts it comes across as if you would be happier if there were no humans on the planet as their needs are a hindrance to fulfilling the green ideology

As that SEAI report shows from the drastic reduction in energy from renewables (a drop of 15.8% for wind and 19.6% for hydro), we were lucky they were still operational. Had last year been 2025 when the largest of them, Moneypoint, is set to be shut by green policy we would have been in serious trouble. It just further shows how unreliable renewables are.

But rather than you attempting to deflect perhaps you would answer the question I have asked you a number of times. You were doubting The Farmers Journal report I posted on the drastic drop in energy from renewables, are you now doubting the SEAI report as well ?

We'd better hurry up and build more wind and solar so.

The capacity factor of modern offshore wind turbines are about 50% with one wind farm off the coast of Scotland achieving almost 60% capacity

the stats below are for the UK. Irish potential is comparable to this

Assuming we invest in the latest generation of offshore wind turbines, we should be looking at capacity factors of 50-65% once we get our offshore wind industry going.

Capacity factor is the amount of actual generation compared to the theoretical maximum generating capacity.

Coal and Gas power stations are at about 50% capacity factor in general (this is because off peak demand for energy is about half of peak demand, so the more expensive the power station is to fuel, the more often they're turned off, or running at reduced capacity in favour of cheaper sources of energy

We should be accelerating our plans to roll out offshore wind, and also our solar power capacity to provide diversity

Storage and interconnectors are gong to be be important parts of the grid going forward, but we have seen what happens when we rely on small numbers of large utility scale plants. If a few of them go down, it leaves us vulnerable. A resilient grid will have redundancies and backups and interconnectors

Our energy security, from the SEAI report is woeful using fossil fuels as our primary energy source. If we have any hope of energy security, we need to build the infrastructure we need to provide it. (not independence, interconnected energy security)

I am pleased about this:

Not willing to argue about it on here, just posted for reference.

Yes, I'm clearly wrong

You are.

But off you go into the sunset to bask in the glory of your victory

Lol I will thanks.

But don't forget, amongst other things you were busted for trying to link to a single EPA study whilst completly ignoring another EPA study, which when both looked at together, clearly show that PM2.5 emissions come from a variety of sources including fossil fuels and vehicular emissions in those areas studied. Neither of which however can be taken as being representative of the country as a whole. Oh yeah and a glossy EPA report, from which you quoted selectively and of which the selected quotes apparently contradict each other regarding sources of PM2.5 etc

And when called out on all that and the fact that Ireland has good air quality relative to PM2.5 and your argument lost, then went off on a pedantic rant about spelling .

Grand so. No worries.

That`s almost as long as the diatribe you posted on The Farmers Journal being incorrect on the drop in renewable output last year. Something which has been confirmed as correct by the SEAI.

Is there anyone in the Green Party or there supporters that are capable of looking at the present rather than gazing into the future and voicing suppositions as if they were facts.

Presently we have them tying themselves in knots over banning turf and briquettes in the midst of an energy crisis and their only reply as to replacing those sources is a Marie Antoinette like`"Let them eat cake"

Renewables have clearly shown last year that they are not a reliable dependent source of energy supply. There is no point in talking about more wind turbines solving that. Last year, a year when our electricity requirement actually rose, there were days when wind provided 6%, and less, of our needs. If you increased the number of turbines by X 16 that would still not have provided the required energy needs. Gazing off at inter-connectors and storage is not going to change that presently, or in the near future either.

You say we need a secure source of energy supply. I could not agree more. Last year in particular shows that to just keep the lights on we needed fossil fuels to do that, predominately gas. That is the secure source of energy supply we need for the here and now. Not only has our own energy regulator pointed that out our present source of supply is not secure, it is not even in E.U. compliance. The Green Party answer ? Attempting to ban gas and sitting on hands on Barryroe. Is this bunch of complete ideological lunatics actually trying to recreate the French Revolution. If you set out to turn people against renewable energy you would be hard pushed to outdo the Irish Green party and their supporters.

None, but you would not need to have shares to see the insanity.

Have you many yourself in renewable energy companies that are now making those extreme profits the E.U. has been encouraging countries to hit with windfall taxes