"Green" policies are destroying this country

The world of the green who has guzzled down Ryan`s Cool-Aid really is a weird place.

Every idiotic utterance of the Great Leader is defended as gospel, the German experiment which has been shown to be an expensive fcuk-up the same, and a car rented from a rental company becomes a carshare. The Scientologist are only in the ha`penny place by comparison.

Hydrogen production can't be scaled up and down, it needs steady reliable "baseload"

This to me is a big issue

A lot of the most public spokespeople have a do as I say approach.....

That and never answering directly when stickier issues are put to them........no acknowledgement, no acceptance that the solution may not be a solution without modification or even at all.....Plough full steam ahead with near religious fervour but ignore anything that might affect them, it does have a bang of being told by your betters what to do off it.

And tbh that's hhe way its always been but some of the stuff being proposed doesn't stand up to even the most cursory glance nevermind scrutiny...

It needs to be as fair a deal as possible to get a majority on board but it looks like zealots pushing an agenda that won't solve the problem to me.

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Hydrogen on demand.

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... and just on that detailed costed plan thing -- it's more than a "nice to have". A judge in the UK has just ruled that country's net zero plan illegal on the basis of the lack of a detailed plan:

(Biz Post)

I can only presume you are being disingenuous. Hard to believe you cannot see the difference between the UK case where the government is being forced to explain how targets are going to be met, and the Irish one where the government is being forced to set even more unattainable targets without explaining how it is going to be done. Let's just look at the dates -- Kwasi Kwarteng the UK secretary of state for energy has nine months to provide the required detail; the Irish ruling is now two years old, was applauded by Eamon Ryan, and he has done precisely nothing to explain how his plan is going to work (which is hardly surprising, because it won't).

What is the worst case scenario we are looking at this winter looking at it from the point of view that there will be a high pressure system over Ireland for a couple of weeks? Little to No wind and low solar plus EU telling us to cut gas usage by 15%.

Rolling blackouts (brownouts)?

This is a direct result of the energy minister not building gas storage in Ireland.

"You'll be wanting the annex of actions which lists over 200 pages of actions and is only the first in a series of which there will be a new annex every year as actions are closed out and new ones added to the list."

No, I don't need to know how we will "test the reduction in drag by novel design of Nephrops fishing gear" (p. 221), "promote the inclusion of measures to limit the importation of fracked gas" (p.233) or even how Ryan plans to sabotage international efforts by "phasing out of fracking through multilateral diplomacy at the EU and internationally" (p.234). That stuff is scary enough.

But no, I'll be wanting the price of a unit of electricity in 2030 and beyond, when we are getting 70% of electricity from renewables, have 850,000 EVs on the roads, 500,000 electric heatpumps in homes, a diminishing tax take from fuels, eye-watering sunk costs in grid and infrastructure expansion and billions spent on SEAI subsidies. Where are the costings? The only number I've seen so far is €125 bn to be spent by 2030, with costs largely borne by the taxpayer (which makes sense as, contrary to Green socialist fantasies, nobody else actually generates revenue). By my reckoning, that's €66,000 for each and every Irish household in the next eight years. Does that sound credible to you?

Scaling it up globally, if someone suggested spending 125 trillion in the next eight years (about 20% of global GDP each year) to save 50% of global emissions, would that sound credible? Because that's what Ireland has committed to for 50% of its own paltry 0.1% of emissions. And at the end of it, we will have precisely the square root of diddly squat effect on global climate.

There is nothing amazing on car sharing idea. Some people may convince themselves and few other that they invented something but most of the time it is just somehow repackaged BS. Car sharing exist for quite some time. The cheaper it go the worse conditions and various hidden charges are attached.

Owning a car is different. You are the one who cares about how often and how hard do you accelerate or brake as doing so has its own consequences. Car sharing is just another socialist idea where some central planner for some weird reason expects that people are some uniformed mass of the same thing. That we are all the same little parts of some collective hive mind. Most of the people still do not bother with basic recycling and amount of litter on the ground every morning mainly on the weekends show that we are far from being green planet saviors.

Funny thing is that if they actually went for recycling and reusing, reducing packaging and stuff like that they would get more people on board rather than talking about CO2 and "climate change".

We are the whipping boys of Europe. Sh!tty end of the stick on everything. Fishing quotas, mortgage rates, price of food, vrt, price of alcohol, price of energy, the list goes on and on. Absolutely nothing regulated at all. Any time there's a grant for anything it just gets added on to price adding to inflation. Now carbon is the latest stick to beat us all with.

Dublin should be shut down with protests over this. Problem is you will always have a cohort of fools who will boot lick politicians and try and hang off them in a photograph. It's unreal. Hard to get your head around. Sinn Fein jump up and down and shout blue murder but they will do fvck all when they get it. It'll be blame the previous government. Its scary to think what this country will look like in 5 or 10 years. Unrecognisable I'd say.

yes datacenters are essential for the ict economy within Ireland

The percentage of Ireland`s electricity consumer by data centers rose from 5% in 2015 to 14% by 2021 and is still increasing. To put that in perspective, that 14% in 2021 was 2% greater than the total consumed by rural dwellings, yet greens have a problem with rural dwelling usage, but it`s O.K. for data centers as "Ireland is one of the best places to locate data centers as less energy is needed for cooling"

Ireland is also one of the best places in the world to produce quality highly regulated beef and dairy products, yet the greens cannot wait to shut the industry down in favour of unregulated slash and burn merchants on the other side of the world.

The green ideological hypocrisy really is mind boggling.

We'll basically be another Rockall by 2050

So you are sea levels will rise is it?

I presume you mean by the melting of the ice caps and the glaciers in Greenland? That put an increase of global sea levels of 70m.

However that does not turn ireland into another rockall by 2050.

Of course you have to factor in humans building coastal sea walls by 2050 etc.