"Green" policies are destroying this country

By the end of the decade and given the timetables involved it's going to have to be utra-supercritcal coal generation to keep the lights on in Ireland to 2050. Unless current policy is reformed, system reliability and security will begin to fall and consumer prices will continue to rise quickly. Never mind the technical deficiencies of unreliable sources of electricity generation, the economics will dictate the outcome. The price of energy is what we pay for consuming it.

So now Hinkley is to blame for Drax as well!

Drax is a complete clusterfcuk of a green energy company being taken at their word as to what they could provide using waste timber but are cutting down virgin forest to do that. The only people to blame are those who without doing their due diligence just took a green energy company at their word. If there is anything to be learned here from Drax is that before a single cent is spent on this E.S.B. play the costings and timeline should be clear to everyone rather than the smoke and mirrors we are getting.

.... on that point I have asked you as to where you got this 150 Billion for the cost of the electricity that Hinkley would supply ?

Something both Japan and India showed the were well aware off when one refused to sign COP27 and the other refused to do until the wording on coal was change.

Also something that green supporters are refusing to recognise with China and coal. U.S.A. will also be worth watching on coal, especially if these mid-terms go the way of the Republicans.

The biggest existential threat to humanity right now is António Guterres

Anyone who claims that Uranium costs are a significant portion of the nuclear electricity price is either being disingenuous or has no idea what they are talking about. Estimates vary but most sources agree that unprocessed Uranium accounts for only half the cost of fuel, which in turn accounts for only a small portion of operating costs, which in turn only accounts for a small proportion of final energy costs, as the majority of overall cost comes from capital expenditure. According to Stanford researcher Kalvin Wang:

The World Nuclear Association is even more direct on the topic of increases in Uranium pricing and the effect it might have on the final retail cost of electricity:

I want to press this point: Is the environmental movement in Europe still shilling for gas as a "transition fuel" after the events of February 2022? Europe, especially Ukrainians and Russia's other neighbours, are entitled to answers!

And if so, why?

May keep the TV/Radio off for the next week or so, as we prepare to be beaten about the head daily with Climate Armageddon.

You seemed to be speaking for a very broad range of people when you said:

So I am asking you: who? Who still (after February 2022) thinks that Europe should keep using gas during "transition?" The same people who thought Nord Stream 2 was a good idea? The same people that have led Europe to the brink of catastrophe by keeping us reliant on Russia? What do you think Ukrainians think of Europe's gas-driven "energy transition?"

It's not a question of "if" it's a fact. The cost of Uranium is incidental, it makes up only a small portion of nuclear energy costs. On an unrelated matter, I can't speak to the thought process of the UK government, you'd need to ask them.

It's worse that that, the UN is not giving full attention to its brief. The Ukraine war should be front and center of the UNs attention, that damn war is expanding. Very likely president Putin is going to get pulled down sometime between this November and next April, the Russian equivalent to the American neocons seize power, they ain't trading with the West. There is destabilisation of European countries underway triggered by a combination of problems, lack of affordable energy, lack of affordable accommodation, and as this progresses it will become a lack of affordable food for more people. At the root of this crisis is Europes energy policy and the technocrats obsession with climate policies supported by the UN, they see this energy shortage as an opportunity to further their cause, remember their stated intention has always been to price fossil fuel out of the reach of most people. Now they have their wish granted, but it's not what they expected.

Latest proposal to wind down farming in Ireland.

Why dont we close down every other industry while we are at it.

I doubt anybody does not get that you have an intense dislike of nuclear, but is there really any need for all the hyperbole and financial gymnastics.

Drax "The U.K`s largest source of renewable energy" is a multi billion green washing scam that is not even confined to the U.K.

On Hinkley, a pet nuclear dislike of yours, you have taken a contract for difference price that would in today`s money cost 81 Bn. for electricity for the next 35 years and using index linking come up with 150 Bn attempting to show that the E.S.B. plan makes some kind of economic sense.

If you do the same with even the lowest estimated price for just the offshore turbine part of that plan alone, then that is even more than the price the U.K. will have paid for their Hinkley supply of electricity for 35 years. The only way the E.S.B. plan would make any financial sense is if it provided us with free electricity for 35 years and investors wrote off all the costs related to the the production and storage of hydrogen.

This E.S.B. plan is not just a financial fallacy, financially it is completely bonkers.

Grand yeah I just don't want to hear people moaning on the radio about taking parking spaces from Capel Street an attack on rural Ireland.

I know plenty of people who moved to rural Ireland because they wanted a bigger house for their kids and didn't want to live in whatever areas they could afford to live in in Dublin, so it's a choice for many.