"Green" policies are destroying this country

It’s absolutely nuts that these lads can’t get this through their thick green tinted skulls!!

Im all for renewable energy but it’ll be dead in the water if the lights go off due to inadequate storage and supplies of the transitional fuel- NG.

Not to mention the fact that European countries do have gas storage, but the storage facilities are almost empty because the price of gas is so high, if they used the limited gas available to top up reserves, it would push the price of gas even higher

And all that money goes to Putin so he can build missiles and bombs to murder civilians

? Don’t get ya?

During WW2 all of the assets of the states involved in the war were diverted towards the war effort. There were blackouts and rations and millions of person hours were diverted to building tanks and planes and ammunition and supplying the logistics to support the troops

People got by and when the war was over, things went back to normal.

There is a war in Europe, and we're in a battle against time to prevent the worst effects of climate change. Because we didn't take this seriously for decades, we're now left with a much steeper transition curve. The point of a 'transition fuel' is that we use our existing gas infrastructure to keep us going while we build renewable infrastructure. If the transitional fuel becomes unreliable due to international geopolitics, the answer is not to invest in more gas infrastructure, it is to accelerate the transition to renewables.

It is a much different situation today. In the 1940s:

1. The population levels were much lower than they are today.
2. They could burn turf and coal and town gas to stay warm, they also had an exceptionally bad winter of 1946-47
3. They could survive without electricity, at that time it mostly powered light bulbs and radios, the white goods (Fridges, washing machines, hoovers and many others) we take for granted today did not really gain traction until many years after the war.
4. Most rural hoseholds could sustain themselves (just about) since the food they consumed came from local subsistence farming.

The point I was making is that it didn't happen over the last three decades so its unlikely to start happening now.

The point about building a massive gas storage facility is that it will inevitably lead to a LNG import terminal to diversify source of supply - which in turn will inevitably lead to importing American Fracked Natural gas - which would be effectively the same as keeping Moneypoint open indefinitely in terms of its overall climate impact.

I was discussing the times we ran out of gas supply (never). I was pointing out that we have managed without massive gas storage for sustained periods without consequences and the scenario has not significantly changed. We did have gas storage - and it was decomissioned because it wasn't economically viable or significantly used.

Have you missed that 57% of our electricity supply is from gas, rising to well above that when three times in the last year renewables were adding practically nothing. Or that there is a European shortage of gas where there is every possibility that 75% of the gas we import may be cut off ?

What do you propose we do then, sit in the dark and say a novena ?

LOL. Just when you think it cannot get any crazier, greens decide it`s a good idea to drive the bus off the edge of cliff.

The do not like nuclear, but it`s fine if somebody else is doing the heavy lifting and you need it. The do not like LNG, another recognised transitional source, but even when somebody else has done the heavy lifting it`s not to be even considered.

A bunch of hypocritical loonies.

I actually have said - I don't think it will happen on either our gas supply or on the interconnects supply. It is you guys who are arguing from a catestrophic shut down scenario - not me.

Ireland's emissions 0.09%

Even if ireland disappeared off the map it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference.

What greens could be doing to make themselves usefull is setting up some sort of recycling scheme to deal with the plastic and rubbish that's fucked all over this country

So nothing has changed in the last year?

And anyone with half a brain would realise we should store NG on the island of Ireland just in case.