"Green" policies are destroying this country

That’s fantastic- if we ever actually build the offshore wind farms on the west coast- which is a big if.

Because grid scale batteries aren't yet reliable. Ask Eirgrid/Esb how many of them have caught fire to date. The media suspiciously aren't reporting any issues.

West, south, north, all are good. The only thing standing in the way are fossil fuel lobbiests and their shills. The technology is fully mature.

Remember torrenting, the hugely disruptive file sharing technology. Millions of people shared bandwidth to be able to access cheaper digital files.

Distributed networks have a lot of power

A million BEVs connected to the grid each of which having 40+kWh batteries. That's a huge amount of storage for load shedding and balancing

I think you're missing the point I was making

What do electricity meters measure (for billing purposes)?

What services do frequency regulation grid services provide?

Interesting that every video George Lee shares in his report has comments turned off on it, not open for discussion, dangerous times...

The near 40% of emissions caused by agriculture v's road and rail transport accounting for 5% is the beauty that does it for me. Households pay the highest environmental taxes at €207 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted, whereas the agriculture sector pays by far the lowest environmental taxes at just €3 per tonne of greenhouse gases emitted.

The punter in ireland returns to the stonage via taxes and emissions policies to accommodate the export of cheap subsidised meat yet has the tiniest impact. Looks like I'm basically paying for the Big Mac for anyone wanting one in London.

If you don't know the answer to such basic questions, I'd suggest learning a little more about the physics of what you are talking about before posting nonsense. Electricity meters measure voltage and current, which can be used to calculate the electrical energy usage in kWh. See your Junior cert science book if you need more information.

I don't understand your second question. If you are asking what frequency regulating services are, they are mechanisms to keep the system frequency at 50Hz. Basically they are forms of reserve (when a generator is intentionally run below it's maximum output and this headroom can pick up or drop output to keep the system stable, using electromagnetics or electronic controllers to determine how to respond automatically). To you and I, we don't necessarily care what the frequency is unless you happen to be trying to use a device designed for a 60Hz system in a 50Hz socket or vice versa. It is merely a quality indication of if supply equals demand. However to sensitive grid equipment, operating away from 50.00Hz means they are trying to restore equilibrium and can be slightly less stable while doing so.

That's not true. And even if it was, the greens don't control the ministry of finance

Irrelevant, when our pension funds disappear because a politician or corporate ass is using ESG to virtue signal rather than concentrating on return on investment. EROI matters to us, turns out a lot, when it comes to our current standard of living, the energy losses involved in the "hydrogen economy" schemes mean investors will lose money.

Hydrogen is not really a fuel at all. There are no underground reservoirs of hydrogen to tap into. It must be produced, spending more energy producing it than you get back when you burn it. The cheapest way to produce hydrogen is to steam-reform methane, and that produces lots of CO2. The high cost of producing hydrogen is just the beginning of problems with it.

Take out the Ryanair emissions out of that which are all attributed to Ireland no matter where the flight goes to and from and distribute those across the countries and look at the graph then. This chart was discussed previously here.

Did you read it. 2020. Remember 2020 when everyone say on their holes at home. Agriculture stayed going as it's a necessity. Also, don't forget that 60% of Irelands manufacturing output uses inputs from agriculture. The numbers, while correct, do not take into account the up stream value the ag industry provides.

We've already got an unelected green in cabinet and it's a joke. No one should be in the Dáil unless theve been elected in to it. And Ryan and his party will most likly be voted out in the next election. There's no way he should be let back in unless he's voted in, and no way should he be serving on government unless he's in government.

That sounds like a plan, but unfortunately it`s not a plan E.U. greens or the Irish Green party have shown any consideration for.

They were all happily pushing their policies on agriculture regardless until the election result in the Netherlands and the resulting political pushback in the E.U. stopped them in their tracks. With E.U. wide elections next year that is very much in the vein of the often quote sentiment " Depend upon it sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully"