Ireland in need of wind and solar farms as coal-burning era ends

RTÉ News ^ | Sunday, 10 Aug 2025 11:59 | George Lee, Environment Correspondent

[Olog-hai]

Meanwhile, turf is being poached from bogs to heat houses. And sales of gasoline-powered generators are at an all-time high. That European Green Deal ain’t working out.

[kiryandil]

George Lee's green energy:

[dfwgator]

Unicorn Farts!

[Olog-hai]

They’re looking for a Sith Lord to hire as energy minister.

[FlingWingFlyer]

They should have all the wind and flatulence they need with old windy O’Donnell over there.

[Leaning Right]

> Ireland in need of wind and solar farms as coal-burning era ends <

Get serious, Ireland. Wind and solar farms alone won’t do the trick. Add bicycle generators, and you should be okay.

[Eli Kopter]

Government target is to have nine gigawatts of wind generating capacity installed by 2030. Guess they will just have to freeze in the dark until 2030. But they will feel good about themselves.

[dfwgator]

Government target is to have nine gigawatts of wind generating capacity installed by 2030.

[j.havenfarm]

Wow. We complain about editorial being labeled as news here. This joker takes the cake. I’ll bet he went all Toobin in writing this passage:

Imagine that. 6% of all our electricity from the sun. And we are only at the beginning of this solar revolution. It is mind-blowing really, if we are honest.

It shows that the technology required to transform our energy system and make our lives cleaner and better is already here. We just need to enable it, speed it up, and embrace the system transformations required.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Well clutch my pearls!

I would be ashamed were I Irish.

[Da Coyote]

We can now switch the generic joke to Ireland: “How will the Irish get lights at night after coal? Candles.”

[hanamizu]

And where are solar farms located, he asks? In the middle of the huge sunny Irish desert? Or on land used for growing food?

It almost looks like the Irish government is in a race with the British government to see which can destroy their nation faster.

[jacknhoo]

Idiotic self destruction.

[albie]

They’ll also need blankets and thermal underwear!!!

[rktman]

They could put a wind turbine outside Rosie o’ douches house for a constant blast of hot air. Good luck with the brown/black outs. More dumbassery!

[Gay State Conservative]

It seldom gets dangerously hot...or cold...there so blackouts won’t be as bad as they’d be in other parts of the world.

[ConservaTexan]

Future headline:

IRELAND EXPERIENCES MASSIVE BLACKOUTS; EXPERTS CONFOUNDED

[drSteve78]

Guinness in the spring and summer , whiskey in the fall and winter.

[butlerweave]

Unicorn Farts and Rainbows , the disaster they’re about to create

[OKSooner]

Wind turbines are a farce no matter where. Without government subsidies, ROI never happens and everyone who is paying attention knows this.

Some say that a case can be made for solar farms near the equator. The further north or south you go - say, to Kansas City? Not so much.

But solar - in Ireland? Somebody's smoking some powerful stuff.