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About LinkBacksYou could read the links..Originally Posted by grainne whale
I get the feeling you won't be happy til you see John Gormley hand-building a wooden wind turbine in your own garden.
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I get the feeling you won't be happy til you see John Gormley hand-building a wooden wind turbine in your own garden.
Sounds like a challenge, see you in my parlour!
Knowledge is power.
Economic Left/Right: -0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97
In 2009
Economic Left/Right: -2.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26
Actually I was considering that project after Easter, but first I've got to sort out my allotment.
'We are all lying in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars'
In fairness, Grainne implied that the Greens had done nothing to start weaning Ireland off imported oil.
I gave her links to existing schemes, introduced by Eamon Ryan, which provide grants for insulation, efficient boilders, geothermal, etc, a scheme to provide price supports to wind farms, the announcement that owners of small solar/wind installations can now sell back to the grid, etc
and Grainne complains that she can't "see" these changes.
WTF does she even mean?
It would be so easy for us to stay in oppostion and join the mob with their cat-calls and sneers. It would be even easier to hop over to flavour of the month Labour, and presumably hop off somewhere else when Gilmore is no longer everyone's darling.
Instead we choose to do what is hard. Hard to do and hard to explain to some.
Wind generation is growing exponentially. On a windy day Ireland now gets 20% of its power from renewable resources.
Microgeneration has come in. You can now sell electricity on the grid.
There is a new tax on any oil or gas that may be discovered.
There are strict new rules on election spending and party fundraising.
I could go on at length about things that are coming. But I'm just concentrating on things already acheived. For the benefit of people who "don't see anything". Seriously, I did not intend to be smug. But to "not see anything" you would have to close your eyes quite often when watching the news or reading the papers.
If there is a future, it will be Green.
Good luck with the allotment. My local Green Party candidate has just secured land for allotments in town after much campaigning for the last year.
WTF, are you on about, I've already got the insulation done, updated the heating controls, the new boiler, plus the multi fuel stove, all without any grant Don't shoot the messenger.!! The Greens are wasters!!
'We are all lying in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars'
Ok I can't resist being smug. It's people like this will lose us seats. Like I said earlier, we have the smart vote. Unfortunately there are not enough of them about. FF have always cornered the ignorant voters. It will be interesting to see where they will go this time.
If there is a future, it will be Green.
Yes the smart vote, indeed, proved my point...
Well, all I can say is, maybe there won't be enough smart people to vote for you come next June!!
'We are all lying in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars'
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