"Green" policies are destroying this country

The prudent thing to do would be to remove the Climate bill from law because (a) it's in no way achievable and (b) if followed through on it has the real possibility of crippling the country economically.

Ryan might lose his seat but it won't be to SF. They already have a seat in DBS and won't be getting another. The question in DBS is whether 'the left' will hold their current three seats or FF/FG will manage two between them, as they probably should. If the latter it's a straight fight between Bacik and Ryan for the second left seat.

You are forgetting thar we can choose to not meet any ridiculous targets. Not everything is set in stone because ER tells us.

You haven't had to explain anything. You just took a pedantic literal interpretation of what I was saying. I guess you think it makes you look clever, but it doesn't.

When I said selling electrons, I meant selling electricity that was generated somewhere else and is stored and released as the market demands it, which is different to selling fuel that will be used to generate electricity that is instantly consumed

And when I said selling frequency, I was talking about grid servicing companies that sell the service of frequency regulation. This will be to replace the spinning reserve that large thermal power plants use for frequency regulation

I cannot find any news online about all these regular fires in utility scale battery storage systems that you allude to. 'Less than perfect track record' sounds like you're backtracking on that claim already, and if you make the claim, you should provide the source. I don't have time to trawl through the internet to find what you're referring to

I am aware that currently Most BESS do use Lithium Ion technology, but that is not likely to be the long term solution as grid scale batteries don't need to be as light or energy dense as mobile device batteries (including cars) the demand for Lithium will probably mean BESS will use flow batteries instead. (plus things like Pumped Hydro) Redox flow batteries, are cheaper, safer, don't require as many rare resources and can be scaled more easily, and have longer life cycles than Lithium Ion batteries.

Did we not give planning for a green hydrogen place in Mayo last week? Whats the benefit of saying we'll work with Germany?

Summer is less than two days old.

World meteorological bodies have certainly shown the predictors for an El Niño season, but seeing as the phenomenon has been identified as occurring for thousands of years and was first described in realtime by humanity 500 years ago, its connection to any climate related issue is tenuous and the data will only show the scale of the effects of this occurrence after the fact.

The Carbon Budget, in all its severity, has no mandate from the people, as it hasn't passed an electoral test.

If meeting its targets is going to cause real economic damage and hardship matters for ordinary households, not to mention farming families and other SME commercials who are being crucified by the provisions of the policy, then those provisions are open to be altered.

I have no time to listen to Oisín Coghlan and his industry buddies trying to target low hanging fruit and by extension private individuals, households, small farms and small business, when the State is still burning coal in Moneypoint and granting wholesale permissions for data centres to gobble up the energy that it produces!

It's time to stop harassing and blaming ordinary people for this stuff and posting the bill for it through their door relentlessly and stressfully.

When we have greened our energy and insulated our new and existing buildings and brought in robust and explicit policies that reduce the need for the majority to commute often and reached the 35% EV target, then we can start looking at what remains.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to vote to be poorer. Well, except some of the loony zealots on here and in Friends of the Earth.

One thing that are notoriously quiet and don't attract much attention are fleets of fire engines racing to put out fires at power stations and substations

Unfortunately real world events and stories don't cut it for some posters. You can have the most reliable colleagues, neighbours or family members tell you about a real event. But unless its in the national media, a peer reviewed study or a press release from whatever Green publication of the day, it won't be believed.

Have you been on the internet for long?