"Green" policies are destroying this country

That's the approach and wanted position. Cattle are being blamed for all sorts of stuff despite the fact that glbal ruminant numbers are relatively stable for many years yet methane emssions only really started climbing in the mid noughties I believe. Around the time fracking became legit. Probably just coincidence

Big opportunity for ireland for capital and energy intensive automated manufacturing. The main inputs required are plentiful energy and political stability with strong access to markets through the EU. (Some people here think we should downgrade our relationship with the European Union to avoid having to implement European emissions requirements, so it's entirely consistent that they would oppose building up our manufacturing base like this.)

Obviously, but it won't happen. Turkmenistan are raking in the cash from these fields. So much so they don't give a hoot that they are flaring millions of cubic meters of it away each year. And there's no sign of their biggest market (China) saying they don't need as much. Or India. Or anywhere over that part of the world#. And Turkmenistan aren't going to shut it down as it brings in the mullah. What's the solution then? A simple tech upgrade and burn the excess gas would cause less damage and they can't even be arsed to do that.

What I'm saying is, things like this need to be targetted a hell of a lot more than easy pickings like, I dunno, cows

This moving away from fossil fuels is just empty soundbite for people who cant think. In fact, we will need many times more of fossil fuels to be extracted and used to even attempt to get "green energy" started. Whole carbon neutral is unachievable simply because proposed solutions will require so much carbon emissions and money that it is almost incomprehensible how can anyone actually fall for it.

This is about US and if we think globally dare to try to multiply costs involved.

Sorry, we've got one manic link dumper on the thread already, don't have time to wade through all that stuff. However, the Dutch TTF gas price graph did catch my eye -- yours is way out of date, gas prices have dropped another 75% since that one. And speaking of falling prices, about that greentech stuff that you claim is falling like a stone -- just how do you explain ORESS-1?

Gas in ever decreasing proportions is planned as the main fallback from wind and solar until 2040 or later. That is the plan. Everybody knows this. This article doesn’t identify any fundamental flaw in the strategy or anything like it.

Why is wind three times more expensive in Ireland than Scotland?

Some industry rep on earlier suggesting it might come in about half the current prices. Which sounds great, but in reality only back to the comfy margins pre Russian invasion. Ryan would want to be smart here and not leave us wide open to exploitation for years to come, like taking sweets off a baby.

I don't see why the likes of RR couldn't build SMRs based on their submarine reactors, but when it comes to nuclear electricity it is going to be the likes of EDF calling the shots, and they all have vested interests in building things like EPRs rather than SMRs.

The main problem with SMRs is that they haven’t been invented yet. They are still just an idea.

Asmall reactor in a submarine produces plentiful, reliable but very expensive electricity in a very specialised and constrained environment. It just isn’t viable in a commercial context. The reactors that make commercial sense so far are really big ones, not small ones.

That’s exactly the stance I’ll be taking to any canvasser that comes near me. In Galway, Fine Gael have been supportive of some of the local Green crazies with the exception of Senator Seán Kyne. He can expect to see his support increase as he’s stood up to their crap.