Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe

[NNadir]

4. Ah, "percent talk." Ireland's carbon intensity over the last 72 hrs is...

...436 grams CO₂/kWh as of this writing.

Electricity Map Ireland (Accessed, 6/20/2025 17:45 hrs, US EST)



The trillions of dollars spent on so called "renewable energy" - coupled with all the rhetoric pretending that switching from coal to gas is actually switching from coal to so called "renewable energy," has not put a blip, zilch, zero, in the accumulation of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere.

The graphic at the Mauna Loa CO₂ Observatory is pretty clear, showing no effect of all the cheering and money thrown at so called "renewable energy" since the dawn of the 21st century, other than, perhaps, things getting worse faster:



Full Record, Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2 ] (Accessed, 6/20/2025 18:00 hrs, US EST)

There is a country in Europe that switched from clean energy to coal, of course, Germany, which as of this writing has a carbon intensity of 408 grams CO₂/kWh, making it only the the fourth worse country in Europe after Poland 717 grams CO₂/kWh, Southern Italy 462 grams CO₂/kWh and Ireland, see above.

Poland has contracted to build nuclear reactors, and last week the Italian government reversed its 1987 ban on nuclear energy.

In "percent talk" Ireland's carbon intensity is 1615% higher than that of France, as of this writing 27 grams CO₂/kWh as of this writing, down 2 CO₂/kWh from a few minutes ago.

We have on this burning planet all kinds of cheering for the "great victories" of "renewable energy" over coal, which is delusional, because the world is burning more coal than it has ever done before, and the multitrillion dollar cheering for wind and solar has done nothing, zero, zilch, to reverse its growth.

I know, I know, I know there's all kinds of soothsaying about how the world will phase out coal, but having experienced such soothsaying for my entire adult life, I rather regard it pretty much the same as soothsaying about how Jesus will come back to Earth, and ask the Orange nightmare in the White House, which souls should be saved for heaven, and which should go to hell.

I am at a loss to understand why we are so anxious to embrace lies. The practice is killing the planet.

Enthusiasm for wind and solar has nothing at all to do with addressing the use of fossil fuels. On the contrary, they depend on access to fossil fuels. The sole purpose of the wind and solar fantasy, expensive and as useless as it is, is to attack nuclear energy, an ignorant practice that has had huge consequences from which we may never recover.

Have a nice weekend.