"Green" policies are destroying this country

... meanwhile the Irish Greens latest revolutionary idea is ... to lower the VAT rate on bicycles. (I claim conflict of interest given that Eamon Ryan is a former bicycle salesman).

"Thought big business were bad trying to lobby for stuff."

Renewables are big business, but newspapers print their press releases verbatim as "news". The news page of Wind Energy Ireland -- the mouthpiece for Big Wind -- is regularly just transcribed. Journalism nowadays is a starter job for kids out of college. They wouldn't know investigative journalism if it bit them. But they know how to use Google Search.

Here is what the "lizard people" have planned for us.

(TheadsbyIrish) Have You Any Idea How Your Carbon Footprint 👣 And Your Carbon Wallet Are Really Going To Work In This Dystopian World The WEF Have Planned ?

The end game is literally summed up similar to that south park episode:

Ban everything fossil based and build lots and lots of windmills

???

Carbon Free Ireland!

They don't care about how much it costs, they don't care whether it actually works or not.

We are gambling our nation's energy supply on nothing but hope at this point:

• Hope that offshore wind will have exponentially better capacity factor than onshore has proven to date
• Hope that battery storage will be able to eventually meet shortfall in generation in the order of hundreds of gigawatt hours (current BESS projects are only in the low hundreds of megawatt hours)
• Hope that we'll be able to meet the significant demand increase coming down the line from electrification of transport and heating
• Hope that alongside all of the above, we'll have gigawatts more unused generation capacity to produce hydrogen from renewable energy sources.

The whole green hydrogen nonsense can be placed in the same category as powering the grid on unicorn farts. Anyone who thinks Ireland can waste water and energy on this is scheme is deluded or chasing subsidies. The delusions have no technological solutions, they know this deep down, the "hopium" schemes are a distraction, to achieve their "net zero" goals in the time lines they set, the only option left them is to purposely restrict the populations ability to consume, hence the push for carbon allowances. I don't believe they can succeed, the lack of affordable energy must have an economic effect that ultimately takes down the Irish establishment once significant numbers of people have had enough of the hardship and restrictions imposed by this ideology. We are not the only population impacted, this extends beyond the current Irish establishment who have tied their fate to that of the EU superstate project, the same issue will ultimately tear apart the EU as we know it.

So is mine, the thermostats control the valves too, the boiler will still fire up for a few seconds then shut down. I've the two heating zones off on the timer and kept the water on for half an hour from 5 am for hot water 5 days and 2 days for 40 minutes to get water well above 50C so there is no bacteria in the tank. Just knocked it back to 20 minutes to see if anybody notices.

Checked the logs in the app, apart from hot water it's been off since 21st of April and hasn't been boosted this summer.

is it really that unfathomable to people to use less energy? surely that's going to have to be the norm in future one way or another as resources become more scarce?

Ha ha ha ha - you crack me up.

"11 August 2022: Water flowing into South Australia has hit a six-year high at 53 gigalitres a day, as a report reveals full storages and wet conditions across the Murray-Darling Basin.

Key points:

• Flows into South Australia are the highest in six years, at 53 gigalitres
• Many storage catchments are reaching peak capacity
• Department for Environment and Water says the river flow peak is expected in September

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority's (MDBA) Murray River annual outlook, released yesterday, showed southern basin storages are at unusually high levels for this time of year, with the Hume Dam sitting at 95 per cent capacity.

It comes as the Dartmouth Dam records 97 per cent capacity, the Menindee Lakes sits at 115 per cent capacity and Lake Victoria at 62 per cent.

The MDBA said the storages have been bolstered by healthy flows entering the Murray River from the Murrumbidgee and Goulburn rivers and other Victorian tributaries.

"The primary purpose of both the Dartmouth and Hume Dams is to store water to meet irrigation and other entitlements, so that's our focus," MDBA executive director of river management, Andrew Reynolds said.

He said irrigators and environmental water entitlement holders were in a good position to receive full entitlements this season, and that the MDBA was set up to manage the risk of shortfalls." https://www.irrigationaustralia.com.au/Web/web/Latest-News/Articles/2022/murray-darling-basin-dams-and-catchments-nearly-full.aspx

Dr. Lars Schernikau points out that over the next 30 years, energy per capita use will increase ~20% with a population increase of ~25%. Which means total primary energy growth of 50%. Essentially all growth in Asia and Africa. This was from a presentation to the Irish Climate Science Forum earlier this year.

I don't think that's true. The bike to work website gives examples of savings made by people in both the standard and higher tax rate brackets.

I have used the scheme myself both in Ireland and UK but thought it only kicked in on the higher taxes, maybe I'm wrong

why would they? we haven't had extremes in Ireland yet but have you not seen what's going on in Europe with the droughts and fires and crop failures and record temperatures? It got to 47c in Northern Portugal. Apparently Ireland will be one of the least affected parts of the world when it comes to climate change in the coming years, but extreme weather in Europe and the rest of the world will affect us in other ways.