"Green" policies are destroying this country

Did you? Its complete fantasy.

Following from the RESS 2 auction Ireland should have 2.5GW of installed dolar capacity (not including domestic installations) by 2030. Plus another 5GW of Offshore wind

That's like saying "Following from Gate 1-3, Ireland should have had 5665MW of wind installed by 2020"!

A lot of it is speculative, regardless of consents/planning and will never materialise, especially with current commodity prices.

Well if you bothered to read the article linked earlier - the green party made it quite clear the only reason they couldn't threaten the same shenanigans last time was there simply wasn't enough of them.

"ultimately if we see a serious breach in implementing [Green initiatives in the programme for government] or trying to do something different we can leave, we can bring the government down”.

“In 2008, we didn’t have the numbers to bring it down”, but the two larger parties now need the Green Party to stay in, he said.

“It is not a threat (we) make idly..."

But don't worry because the number one fan of the gp on here  has explained that all this was simply porkies for tactical purposes. 

Whats true is that the green party are certainly their own worst enemy

You are trying to say what will happen due to Green policy is not what the Green Party want. They don't care about the consequences. They are ruining this country to line their pockets. This emotional nonsense about "surely you don't mean to say the Greens are intentionally doing what they are doing" is laughable. Why wouldn't the money to buy up farm land come from China? We already have vulture funds buying up property with sweetheart rent deals from the state. In this day and age expecting a politician to do what's in the best interests of the people is completely ridiculous. They are robbing us all with a thin layer of media spin to try to justify it. In fact they aren't even trying that hard to hide it really.

Looks like you did a Gap analysis on the Gap analysis and found a major gap.

A Gap analysis is nothing more than another term for a SWOT analysis where anyone doing one will big up what the see as the strengths and opportunities and attempt to ignore and dumb down the weaknesses and threats hoping nobody notices the major gaps in their proposal.

I agree that retrofitting is good and replacing public transport with something cleaner is also but at what cost? EVs just transfer 2/3 of the problem somewhere else in a world where more and more vehicles are produced. Take it personally? My fuel bills have more than doubled which I know is not all due to carbon tax but why at a time like this should we be paying it?

I’ve been listening to the predictions of climate change for four decades now during which GG has increased worldwide and will continue to do so yet none of their catastrophic predictions have come true as they try to spin weather anomalies as climate change. The same people fly first class around the world with a carbon footprint so large that it almost obscures their egos.

Absolute nonsense.

Ireland destroying its agricultural sector, loading taxes under the more attractive term of "incentives" on an already struggling public, and Ryan and his bunch of ideological loons pontificating in the press will do absolutely zero to address the policies or emissions outputs of countries that are doing far more damage than we ever could.

This narrative of panicky hysteria is just like we saw over the last 2 years in this country with Covid. Massively overblown theatrics for what was essentially a mild dose of the sniffles for the vast majority of people who caught it - but it did have many of the same elements : mass media coverage of only the "approved" narrative, expectations that the majority must sacrifice for the "greater good", a government increasingly out of touch with the mood on the ground, etc..

All this is now is the latest populist crusade (whatever happened to Saint Greta anyway? I would have expected her to be front and centre lecturing the world's leaders again?)

I have a feeling though that once the energy shortages start to bite in the colder months ahead, and the impending global recession starts to make its effects felt in parallel, all this pandering to a bunch that only 3% (of those actually asked) actually support will rapidly fall away in the face of far more immediate and significant problems.

Green policy is something that the wealthy and entitled folk use to make themselves feel better about their own excesses, but that's about all it is.

Installed capacity, or indeed rolling output capacity where renewables are concerned, is not worth the amount of paper it takes to write the words on.

We have close to 5,000MW of renewable installed capacity. Our peak time demand is around 6,000MW and there have been posts here showing that even this month out of that renewable installed capacity there have been days that all it provided from that close to 5,000MW was 360MW.

If that was the level anyone was getting from a diesel or petrol powered generator it would be scrapped.

Neither "is sort of a viable transitional fuel" regardless of what you again have come up with in your own head. Both along with nuclear are recognised by the E.U. as transitional fuels.

Seeing as your major concern is planetary polluting supply chains, perhaps you would care to share how culling 2 million cattle here will lessen the pollutants from a supply chain where just one other country is increasing their cattle numbers by 24 million?

I won`t hold my breath waiting for your reply to that no more than I have been to any other of your own made up "facts" you have been questioned on.

You ignored what I said . Piped gas is a transition fuel, LNG isn't. I accept the need to continue to use piped gas for backup generation.

You ignored what was explained. Piped gas from the UK is sourced from both LNG imports and natural gas. So if we use UK gas we dont have a choice whether its comes from fracked sources or otherwise. And yes the EU have deemed both natural gas and LNG as transition fuels. Btw not all LNG is from fracked sources. You do know that right?

LNG stands for Liquidified Natural Gas. In order to meet the world’s demand for gas, natural gas needs to be transported from where it’s produced to where it’s going to be consumed. LNG is created by cooling natural gas to -160ºC, creating a clear, colourless and non-toxic liquid, 600 times smaller than natural gas. The biggest exporter of LNG around the world is Qatar, which has huge supplies of natural gas of its coastline. The biggest exporter of fracked natural gas is the US.

So do you accept that we need to reduce our reliance on imported natural gas by using our own untapped reserves. If not, why not?

LNG uses around 15% of its embodied energy to compress which regardless of its source it is less efficient than piped gas. The majority of the gas coming from the UK is coming directly from the North sea gas fields.

Ireland has no viable domestic sources of gas. Corrib was marginal and it took the government to give it away for anyone to develop it. The government has been trying to get people to develop its reserves for 30 years with no takers but shell in corrib.