Schlagwörter
Aktuelle Nachrichten
America
Aus Aller Welt
Breaking News
Canada
DE
Deutsch
Deutschsprechenden
Global News
Internationale Nachrichten aus aller Welt
Japan
Japan News
Kanada
Karte
Karten
Konflikt
Korea
Krieg in der Ukraine
Latest news
Map
Maps
Nachrichten
News
News Japan
Polen
Russischer Überfall auf die Ukraine seit 2022
Science
South Korea
Ukraine
Ukraine War Video Report
UkraineWarVideoReport
United Kingdom
United States
United States of America
US
USA
USA Politics
Vereinigte Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland
Vereinigtes Königreich
Welt
Welt-Nachrichten
Weltnachrichten
Wissenschaft
World
World News
20 Kommentare
Nuclear power. Inevitable, and for some reason never addressed or taken seriously. We can be completely energy independent if we had one.
All those windmill parts come from China.
Apparently the home heating leap is due to using kerosene rather than diesel as elsewhere
We can’t fix it overnight!
– FFG (in government since 1949)
>Countries reliant on imported fuels are exposed not only to this market volatility, but also to the strategic decisions of fossil fuel producers. Europe learned this lesson painfully when Russia restricted gas exports after invading Ukraine.
>
Imagine how different the impact of the current war would be if Ireland had accelerated climate action, were already powered by domestic renewable electricity and had fully electrified transport and heating.
Ireland is no different than any country in the world with few exceptions of petrol states. Literally the whole Western world is affected by raising prices of oil and gas due to this.
The magical thinking in this article is like me saying that if I just build off grid cabin in the mountains with my own vegetable plot I wouldn’t be affected by raising food costs. It is true but it is not realistic and will not happen at the time scales of people that are currently alive. Also the technology to electrify transport is not mature enough for this to happen.
Even the most ambitious targets do not assume we will stop using fossil fuels for all applications, they only assume the leftover usage will be offset by activities like restoration of forests to make that use carbon neutral.
When it comes to electricity, people are paying a high price for our governments obsession with privatisation.
What about taxes?
Aren’t they like 50% of the cost?
We have seen rises in price despite the rise in renewables. It’s a case where it makes virtually no difference. Hell microgen from your own solar panels gives you 18c for every kw you send out and it will be taxed vs the approx 42c per kw you take in depending on your provider. I get it woooo the environment but save the nonsense that we would have cheaper electricity with renewables
Wasn’t she the one on twitter that used block those that disagreed with her, unblock them late at night, post a snarky response and then block them again so they wouldn’t be aware of her reply?
And then decamped to Bluesky when she started to be called out on it?
I’m not sure she’s a person we should be taking advice from, tbh.
The EU continues to drag its heels on decoupling prices from gas
Aren’t we producing up to 60% from wind turbines sometimes and still have the most expensive electricity in Europe?
Just returned from Costa Rica where pretty much 100% of their electricity is renewable. Also increased forest cover from 20 or 30% to 60% since the 1980s. Where there’s a will there’s a way but coward governments and nimbys run this country.
Let be real here if we went majority renewables do you think these companys are going to let us get away with low energy prices?
€100 it cost me to not even fill the tank in the car. I need heating oil too and when I saw the price I just said we can just stick out the rest of the winter with no heating. If it gets too cold we will go tenement and just huddle around and electric heater in one room.
Listen, I believe in climate change, and I believe that it is caused by humanity.
But let’s just all get our heads out of our asses and be honest. We are a tiny country, and we have made massive sacrifices for the sake of the climate (including massive investment in renewables), and we just keep becoming more and more energy insecure.
Imho, the buck for our carbon emissions stops with the data centres and the beef farmers.
For the majority of us, just repeating the mantra „we need to stop using fossil fuels“ is going to do sweet fuck all as many of us genuinely rely on those fossil fuels to get by.
No energy incentives to upgrade homes, ridiculous VRT stopping electrical vehicles sales, carbon taxes driving up food prices, housing crisis…. And the government wants us to buy into renewables when we can barely afford to feed our kids?
This war slapped us back into a frightening reality.
I dunno, we seem to be moving away at a decent clip if you ask me, the only snag is that we are allowing very energy intensive industries in at about the same rate so we are adding to rather than replacing existing fossil fuel infrastructure. Population is increasing too of course.
People are putting solar panels on their homes and insulating them well, wind turbines are plentiful, solar farms are being built, electric cars are catching on. Personally I would have thought it was a good news story.
Irish people will change to all environmental improvements if it didn’t cost them, A arm and a leg and the shirt on there back.
We are also paying a high price because our taxes on fuel are extortionate and among the highest in the world. They would put us in the top ~10% worldwide.
About 70% of electricity generated in Ireland comes from renewable sources yet the price of electricity goes up during energy crisis. The irish people are being shafted no matter where our energy comes from.
Well do something about it, where is the cheap reliable train network that links every town in Ireland.