"Green" policies are destroying this country

Seeing my former post got no response or support i take it everybody seems to like being in the same sandpit.

So im getting out of this idiotic (not so) merrygoround.

I've no problem with politics in schools, in the form of it being part of the kids' education. With the Green agenda, the politics takes the form of propaganda. They are not encouraged to think, rather they are fed the position that they are required to adopt without critical analysis.

Dont take that idiot DaCor to heart. Personally I only laugh at his idiotic posts. No common sense just goes along with the "green" idealogy he is being fed.

I can reliably report that one of the climate mitigation measures that the Dept of Finance have successfully implemented over recent years is that they no longer write back to citizens when said citizens write to the minister/ department.

Fair dues to them, it's the little things that count. Look after the cents and the € will mind themselves etc.

On the other hand, you could just say they are lazy feckers.

We are dependent on gas and we cannot even put a storage system in place for that.

Increasing renewables percentage of electricity from the present 35% to 80% in the next 7 years, plus the extra renewable electricity production that would be required to produce hydrogen to maintain the percentage of electricity from renewables at that 80%, on their own for either is pie in the sky, let alone if hydrogen would work to scale, where it would be stored or even how it would be distributed.

And that is not to mention that renewables can not keep up with demand as we are, let alone be able to generate all the above with 1 million E.V.s and 400,000 heat pumps added. I know the 1 million E.V.s and 400,000 heat pumps is a fantasy, but it`s part of the green fantasy so it has to be taken into account in relation to their percentage renewable fantasy figures.

Add in that the costs are completely unviable and it`s imaginary pie in a make-believe sky.

Every couple of years BNM have a press release about a new line of business they are getting into. Last time it was retrofitting homes, now it's wind energy.

That makes about as much sense as comparing a mechanical adding machine to a modern datacentre. Without being rude, how much do you know about modern drilling?

Sounds a bit conspiratorial. Anyway, no need, I'm very familiar with the material.

Taking them in turn:

• First one is a one-sentence reference to the highly successful 48/24-10z appraisal well. Hardly the "poor results" you referred to?
• The only new data in number two is the 2017 reprocessing of 3D seismic showing the absence of faulting, which had been a previous concern about field connectivity. Unalloyed good news.
• Number three shows that every one of the six previous drills contacted hydrocarbons, that there are four vertically stacked reservoir systems, that the basal Wealden sands are areally extensive, and that there is even greater prospectivity in a yet-untested Jurassic interval. Looks fantastic.
• Number four is just a rehash of what we already knew about the 2012 test. 3500 BOPD from a single 7 metre vertical interval. Pretty amazing. You realise it's a cinch nowadays to drill a couple of kilometres horizontally through that? Also mentions the 0.4 Tcf of gas in the OPL1 area which, thanks to Ryan and his minions will probably never get drilled as that option belonged to KEL and presumably won't be offered to anyone else.

All of which begs the question: if this is your supposed evidence of "poor results", do you actually know what you're talking about?

You're right. The previous farm outs under O'Reilly were fiascos. He never had the managerial nous to court sensible partners. APEC was an out-and-out scam, like many Chinese investment ventures. Spot On was a two-man amateur-hour show registered by a lawyer in Edinburgh. You forgot to mention the previous dodgy outfit -- Sequa/Sapinda.

Here's the real cracker though, which I'm sure you of all people will appreciate. The serially unsuccessful O'Reilly and his technical director O'Sullivan are now at the helm of dCarbonX -- the company that ESB are pinning all their hopes on for the development of the glorious new hydrogen infrastructure you've been banging on about. You couldn't make it up! A guy whose only experience of solar energy is developing a deep permatan at his Maltese tax haven hideout. Long-suffering Providence shareholders used to call him "the Bronze". Yep, Mr. SnakeOil is your problem now. 🤣

"Heat stroke on a Maltese beach can really mess with your urine!"

Anyway, back to the main point. You referred to "results which have been consistently showing that while there is oil and gas there, it can't be extracted in a profitable way". Nothing you posted remotely suggests that. In fact, since your links are all to company materials, it's hardly likely they would post anything like that even it was true, now is it? You could have mentioned some actual technical challenges such as the waxiness of the Barryroe crude and high pour point which require special handling (though not particularly problematic). The fact of the matter is that Barryroe is breakeven at an oil price of $26/bbl, something we're pretty unlikely to ever see again. Even if the huge overall field volumes turned out to be an overestimate, a couple of horizontal producers in the well-proven east flank would be a license to print money.

Most people charge their cars at home or at work and not using on street charging, is it really that big a deal?