"Green" policies are destroying this country

plough on with renewables is just a code word for keep burning oil and gas as there is no cheap solution to the random intermittency problem

Current situation is a combination of extension leads to leech from other grids generation, manage peak demand by kicking heavy users off the grid, e.g the likes of Amazon, and supermarkets (freezers) fall back to generators . . . and eventually, force domestic consumers into surge pricing schemes to encourage "demand flexibility" in order to knock 5% off peak Winter demand.

And Ireland will be patted on the head for leading the charge against global climate change😀

One can not harness nearly unlimited wind power. Unless you plan to have on/off grid. Like we will have power when wind is blowing and patiently wait when it does not. Unfortunately it can not happen anyway.

To even attempt to generate majority of power needed from wind will require tens of thousands of wind turbines and tons of nonexistent power storage. That plan may look good on paper or when politicians yapping around but economy can not and will not support development of such adventure we simply can not afford it.

Genuine question.

Do you understand what the word finite means? Because your answer has nothing to do with my 6 word post.

Alternatives are needed. That's to say nothing about the harm burning fossil fuels do.

I think when the power storage gets built it will no longer be non-existent to be fair. As a country we do need to get the finger out on building it though

The materials to make wind turbines and solar panels are finite, require extensive mining to extract rare earth minerals, produce large volumes of waste material (including radioactive waste), the scaled up processing with various combinations of heat and acids, bulk of that processing is done in China burning fossil fuels. NIMBYs don't want mining or processing in their locality, they are happy to consume products marketed to them as saving the planet. Recycling modern composite materials require energy from burning of fossil fuels and various chemicals to break down the materials, in some cases such as plastic it is just burned, leaving it to nature to recycle the material. If fossil fuels are finite so it recycling.

Being not very dense compared to nuclear or fossil fuels, the number of suitable sites for wind turbines and solar panels in finite. All the best on shore sites for wind generated power have already been allocated and tends to be far from the main population centers where most electricity is needed, thus more copper wire is needed, that stuff is scarce as well and due to declining ore quality the volume of material that needs to be processed is increasing. The generating capacity factor of solar in Ireland in rated at 10%, turns out daylight on an annual basis is finite. Don't forget the generation costs associated with the duck curve. Onshore wind is rated around 33%, though it's usually around 25% and dipped to 21% back in 2021 (wind drought), turns out that when we get a high pressure over western Europe especially in Winter, the dunkelflaute means very little wind anywhere when there is maximum electricity demand. Batteries store power, they are not generators, are not very scalable, are expensive and can only be used to manage some of the issues created by non-synchronous generation like sudden dips in output while fossil fuel generators spin up.

Wind and solar are finite and completely dependent on fossil fuels.

We must also look at the other end of the extension lead, UK government now has Ed Miliband performing the role Eamon Ryan does here. A recent letter indicates they are following the same playbook to setup a fall guy, the UK has its Oxbridge elite floating around in the net zero ideological bubble.

First, it is rather unfortunate that the file name for the letter on the Government website is “SOS Chris Stark Letter Clean Power 2030.” It smacks of a certain amount of desperation. But it is the substance of the letter that is more worrying. They have written to Fintan Slye, director of the National Grid ESO (soon to become NESO) for “practical advice” on achieving a clean power grid by 2030. In other words, neither Ed Miliband nor Stark have the faintest clue how to deliver a net zero carbon grid by 2030. source

The former New Zealand prime minister, Jacintha Arderns government pursuit of net zero has left New Zealand facing blackouts sooner than later. Is there another island country whose government has limited their nations access to gas?

This year, we failed to refill the reservoirs, and levels are now unusually low. We are muddling along for the moment, but this is a difficult position from which to recover and there are likely to be blackouts at some point in the future.

The ability of our fossil fuel power stations to step into the gap has been severely restricted. We used to get 20 per cent of our electricity from gas-fired power stations, but six years ago, as part of their decarbonisation policy, the previous government banned further gas exploration, and we are now desperately short of gas. The new government is encouraging new exploration but we won’t see the results for several years. source

Another green policy costing insane amounts of money for nothing

All so Eamonn can park his push bike

Hasn’t the poster and others consistently came up with figures to back up their statements

Meanwhile we are all still waiting on how much will the 37GW offshore wind plan Eamonn is pushing will cost, if it’s anything like his bike shed (few posts up) then it’s only fair citizens of this country ask how much this daft plan will cost us, I am not even commenting on the hydrogen “techno dreams” as there is literally nothing to comment on as its firmly in realm of vapourware (hahaha pun 😇)

Especially as our electricity bills continue to rise and CO2 emissions remain many multiples of other European countries of similar size that went nuclear