"Green" policies are destroying this country

Yup. We're already seeing all the existing missed targets getting loaded onto the hopium of offshore wind, which is now up to 7GW by 2030. An analyst for GE Renewables believes we will hit -- wait for it -- ZERO GW BY 2030. Have a listen to yesterday's Drivetime, starting at 02:01:30 ...

We haven't been able to even issue any permits for seabed surveys in the last five years. We have no ports capable of handling the required marine traffic. For some of the vessels needed there are only 5 or 6 of them in the world... and there is a five year waiting list to charter them.

The Green energy targets were highly aspirational to begin with. Government bureaucracy and inertia has managed to turn them into hopeless fantasies.

So what you're saying is we shouldn't be building massive wind farms then?

So will there be power outages over the next week? The huge turbines opposite us are barely turning, it's getting colder.. This is the scenario where we hit problems - winter anticyclone.

You do have a tendency for selecting the lowest strike price you can find when it comes to U.K. strike prices for wind and the most expensive for nuclear with Hinkley "The dreadful deal behind the worlds most expensive power plant".

From carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-low-price-for-uk-offshore-wind Simon Evans 08.07.2022.

For the 11Gigwatts the U.K has secured that are due to start operating within the next 5 years the average price in today`s money is £48 per megawatt hour (MWh).

We all know, so there is no point in kidding ourselves that we will not come anywhere close to the U.K. average for offshore CapEx for this 30 Gigawatt plan. Even if you ignore the state of Siemens, Vesta and General Electrics balance sheets (Post #18588) which shows the price of wind turbines are going to increase not decrease. But for the sake of arguement lets pretend none of that is relevant.

We know from this ESB plan that 50% of the electricity generated would be for domestic and 50% for hydrogen production. That means that for the domestic consumer the strike price would be double. So that U.K. average price of £48 for wind now becomes £96.

But the consumer is not going to be off the hook at £96 (€112) even though it is more expensive than the most expensive nuclear strike price you could find. They will also be on the hook with the further addition of the unknown production costs, the storage costs and the distribution costs of hydrogen, all of which would not be necessary with nuclear.

Even a Hinkley C, (and there are a lot more options at a fraction of the cost of Hinkley C), would be better value for the consumer than this ESB plan.

They're particularly ignorant of the landscape in Galway City. Once there's any bit of a wind or tide they start bleating on about sea levels rising and generally then point to areas of land that have been recently reclaimed from the sea. Most of Salthill prom, and a significant portion of the land behind it, is constructed on reclaimed seashore. It needs regular maintenance, not whining about C02.

This one is a particular joke > https://galwaypulse.com/2022/09/30/galway-light-installation-highlights-rising-sea-levels/ It's supposed to show the level to which the sea will rise. What they fail to acknowledge is that again, it's at an area that's been reclaimed so has to be maintained. All of Long Walk (right next to where this installation is installed) is reclaimed, and it used to flood extensively until the late 1940s when the river was dredged.

Now, environmental (or just mental) regulations mean that shores and rivers can't be dredged or deepened, so of course places such as Long Walk and Salthill flood. It's neglect, not climate change.