"Green" policies are destroying this country

I don’t see how this would save very much in carbon emissions. The non-electrified trains run at such low frequencies. It would be a symbolic project but would make basically no real difference.

Elephant in the room is our ever-expanding airline industry and record breaking passenger numbers, that are often lauded as a mark of our economic success. Every back holiday we are told it will be the busiest weekend in Dublin Airport since whenever, as if we should be keeping score. More is good, apparently.

What happens when we are told cheap flights must become a thing of the past? What happens when we are told we should be trying to reduce passenger numbers?

I can barely imagine the uproar and hysteria that would cause!

Where do you see this co-operation on emissions or indeed carbon accounting ?

COP 26 India and Japan made it clear when it came to using a cheap energy source to protect their economies where they stood on carbon accountancy. China the same to provide the energy required to produce all the green tech. Russia could care less even if they tried, and now Germany, is burning whatever they can get their hands on while shutting down the last of their nuclear plants. That represents around 40% of the global population. Meanwhile here with 0.07% we have greens talking about accounting.

But you do not even have to go that far afield to see the farce of green accountancy. We have "Green" energy companies claiming to be providing 100% green energy where we only produced 34% in 2022. How can that 100% claim be possibly true ? The possible muti-use of so called Guaranteed Green Energy Certificates perhaps ?

I would have though with their obsession with accountancy Irish greens would have been all over that looking for an explanation. Not so it seems as it took an investigation by the Advertising Standards Authority on foot of a complaint by a Sinn Fein Senator for them to be told to cut out the B S.

But then when it comes to massaging the figures, the EU is not hiding behind the curtains either. Biomass makes up 60% of EU renewable energy mix. Wind and solar combined 22%. The EU counts wood and other biomass burned for energy as carbon neutral based on the premise that CO2 emitted will be absorbed by more trees in the future. Not only do the not have a clue if trees are being planted to cover those being chopped down, the European Academic Science Advisory Council told them years ago that it will take from years, to decades to centuries.

We have now also fully embraced the con importing woodchip from Brazil 7,000 Kms away, to burn in the former turf fired Edenderry plant in the make believe world of green carbon accounting.

Looks like EVs have their problems as well, will the Greens encouraging us to buy EVs turn into the same diesel debacle they implemented in 2000's, the greens can't be trusted, they flounder from technology to technology without knowing the real long term consequences.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20104949.html

Lots to discuss here. Don’t see actual evidence that this will be the most expensive auction ever. You can’t really compare the GB prices to the Irish prices. The calculation is very different (because of how the consumer price index is factored in for example).

Gas and other fossil fuel plants are also paid for not producing through the capacity remuneration mechanism and through constraint compensation.

Difficult to know from that article, but with this offshore plan being 50% of electricity generated for domestic consumption and the other 50% for hydrogen production, potentially could that figure of €150 not end up double that with all the hydrogen costs piled on top as well ?

I love the way you attribute statements to me that I did not make.

The EU accounts for quite a bit more than 8 percent of global emissions

The border carbon adjustment tax will help internationalize the effect of these measures for countries exporting to the EU.

You are big on whining and moaning from your talking points but what is your alternative proposal? War on the Southern Hemisphere? Interpretative dance festivals to convince people to reduce emissions?

Uh, what?! We had people on here for months last year claiming that wind was the cheapest form of power ever, and quoting a price of £37.50/MWh ... "nine times cheaper than gas". Never mind that they cherry picked the highest European gas price ever which persisted for all of one day on August 26th, and the cheapest wind auction price ever in a country that wasn't Ireland. They also gaslighted us that wind prices were getting ever cheaper, ignoring the actual evidence that Irish prices had increased 30% in two years. If we now see €150/MWh it will have more than doubled in three years! (This isn't actually a surprise to anyone noting rising interest rates, the consequent cost of finance to capital intensive businesses, and the particular inflation in energy commodities such as copper).

At what point do we say to all the vultures sucking on the public tit: "sorry lads, there's a limit to the price we can pay". The sad answer is that the Green's will never say that. There is no price they are unwilling to pay with other people's money. The Irish Academy of Engineers challenged them three years ago to come clean about the costs to the public of their 2030 targets, something they have never done. They much prefer the "boiling frog syndrome" whereby the average uninformed punter doesn't even realise how the Greens are responsible for the creeping costs of energy.

More gaslighting. Electricity markets the world over hold capacity auctions. That's because they don't leave the availability of vital electricity to chance, depending on who shows up on the day. Wind generators can't avail of this for the obvious reason that they don't have any firm capacity to sell.

Glad you brought that up. You are right to eliminate all the stupidly impossible schemes. You can include wind power in that. There is no possibility of it leading to a net zero world, it can't even keep up with increases in energy consumption. Indeed there is no single technology that can do that as we'd need to be deploying 2 GW of new low carbon capacity every day from here to 2050. That's why it's completely obvious that the greenies are a doomsday cult and not interested in net zero. They eschew one of the most obvious partial solutions in the form of nuclear power.