Electric vehicles and solar and wind farms are what I like to call “feel good measures”. They are not a solution, they just so people can pat themselves on the back.,(reply>), @DN Swag Ireland is small with a population of 5,053,614, that’s smaller than the US state of Wisconsin. Solar and wind work in some places, yes, but they are too unreliable to be used the a primary source of energy. They have very low capacity factors (about 25% and 35%, respectively), whereas nuclear (my preferred method of energy generation) and Geothermal have capacity of 95 and 90, respectively. <br><br>And for record, I’m not “anti-green energy”, I don’t like fossil fuel and I’m all for Nuclear, Hydroelectric, Geothermal, and Digesters, all of which are green sources of energy and far better than wind &amp; solar.,(reply>), @Willie Preisig They work in a huge amount of places. 40% of Ireland's energy last year came from wind, which is a huge improvement over coal or oil fired plants. If we had more pumped hydro (we only have station currently), then we could expand on technologies like that while keeping the grid stable. As a mechanical engineer, it's so disheartening to see people buying into "anti-green" ideas just because they don't like how their government is handling it, when there's actually a lot of promise to those technologies.,(reply>), Not in my backyard = not my problem