Henry Fingleton

Entrepreneurial type. Masters in management. Like the big picture and how strategy versus culture. Avid skier, S&C certified & aspiring calisthenics guru !.

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

@Aidan_Regan What grid can manage a lot of wind efficiently ??

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Oh dear. Another one who either doesn't understand how bills work or is deliberately peddling false narratives

Weather based renewables will never deliver cheap energy

We've been subsidising wind since 1990. When is the Government going to come clean about the fact it's never going to stand on its own feet without subsidy??

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

@DavQuinn It doesn’t exist. Unless it’s hydro

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

@DavQuinn - I think this says a lot about our energy policy based on wind.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Every Danish wind turbine combined: 21.6 TWh in the last 12 months

One nuclear plant in Sweden: 23.3 TWh

And nuclear runs 24/7. Wind doesn't

One big reason Denmark has some of the most expensive electricity in the world
https://t.co/jTdlpnY99q

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Every Danish wind turbine combined: 21.6 TWh in the last 12 months

One nuclear plant in Sweden: 23.3 TWh

And nuclear runs 24/7. Wind doesn't

One big reason Denmark has some of the most expensive electricity in the world
https://t.co/jTdlpnY99q

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

This tells us all we need to know about the folly of building out #wind instead of nuclear

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Every Danish wind turbine combined: 21.6 TWh in the last 12 months

One nuclear plant in Sweden: 23.3 TWh

And nuclear runs 24/7. Wind doesn't

One big reason Denmark has some of the most expensive electricity in the world
https://t.co/jTdlpnY99q

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Germany’s climate targets: more than double spending

The extra cost over fossil alternatives is €1.7 trillion by 2035, or €1,800 for every German, every year

This comes on top of what would have been spent anyway

And mainstream parties wonder why they’re losing

Notes: AI illustration. Doubling: gross climate investment rises from €110bn a year in 2018–23 to €270–300bn a year in 2025–45. €1.7tn: extra investment over fossil alternatives, 2025–35, in 2024 euros, average of the Roadmap and KNDE scenarios. The study gives gross investment by period, but net investment only as a 2025–45 total, so the net figure by period is estimated here from the gross paths. Investment only: fuel savings and running costs aren’t counted. Prognos for KfW 2026: https://t.co/EK6kWp8lu0

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

@Deloitte - this damages your credibility when one of your staff delivers inaccurate information. This line on getting off fossils is for activists not for people who want an evidence base underpinning their views.

[TonightVMTV @TonightVMTV]

Reducing Ireland's "reliance on fossil fuels" is key to easing costs for households and businesses in the long term.

That's according to Deloitte Ireland Chief Economist Kate English.

#TonightVMTV

[TonightVMTV @TonightVMTV]

Reducing Ireland's "reliance on fossil fuels" is key to easing costs for households and businesses in the long term.

That's according to Deloitte Ireland Chief Economist Kate English.

#TonightVMTV

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

@TonightVMTV Such ridiculous bland statements. How and at what cost ?

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

@karldeeter Also big question marks over how a death is classified as being from heat ?. We saw with Covid how inaccurate or manipulated this was.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Denmark spent decades building nearly 5,000 wind turbines

Together, they produced 21.6 TWh in the last 12 months

One nuclear plant in Sweden made 23.3 TWh

Oh, and nuclear runs 24/7 — wind doesn’t

There's one big reason Denmark has some of the most expensive electricity in the world

https://t.co/SiPeo0tE9Z
https://t.co/hvsqEWOpuJ
https://t.co/HyQp2owXAX
https://t.co/8ggd62dywW

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

This European politician spent most of his political career making energy in the EU among the costliest in the world

And now, to prevent people from turning to populists and extremists (not voting for him) — he's finally focused on making energy cheap

https://t.co/lGg1ESQ4Sd

[Irishman @IrishmanIRL]

Good article by Brenda Power in today's Irish Daily Mail about the stupidity of liberal western woman.

'Who could have foreseen that people from intolerant, misogynistic and theocratic cultures wouldn't all turn into cuddly industrious and broad-minded peaceniks once they'd landed in Europe, greeted by nice liberal ladies waving Refugees welcome banners.'

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

@RTECountryWide is primarily a s #climate programme, hugely biased against farming with experts cherry picked by Philip. Lots of general misinformation bordering on climate fanaticism.

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

If nobody ever had to call their TD for help navigating the Irish public sector, that would be the #1 source of votes gone. So the system must stay bad - whether politicians realise this consciously or not:

https://t.co/S8FR51Dz2J

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

@ProgressIreland The climate movement influenced Gov to such a level that we have banned exploration (madness), depend on the moffet pipeline for all our gas and have the most expensive electricity in Europe. Incompetent politicians and a climate leaning media.

[Henry Fingleton @HenryFingleton]

If you want to understand Ireland’s energy system, @XEnergyIreland is a must follow.

[Ireland's Energy Mix @XEnergyIreland]

Wind helps us save millions of cubic meters of gas burning on windy days. Thank you, wind. But we have hit peak wind, so don't expect an increase in those fuel burn savings in your lifetime or your kid's lifetime.

​Wind does not set our wholesale price of electricity; gas does, ultimately. Wind also increases the portions of our bill that we pay as final retail price of electricity. Wind increases overall grid/network costs and even increases the cost of running a gas plant itself.

​Solar doesn't work at night and is barely noticed in the winter.

​Gas supplies almost 100% backup of our entire electricity grid; therefore, it is critical for EV car charging and those with heat pumps for heating. For electrification of society, it's therefore critical.

​Gas is always required...100% of the time, 365/24/7, as it supplies synchronous power and will be required for the rest of this century at least (beyond 2100)

​1/3 of households, mainly urban, use that same gas for heating their homes with gas boilers; another 10% now rely on our gas-backed grid to operate electrically powered heat pumps.

​Ireland has zero days of gas storage availability and is the only country that is fully reliant on gas AND has no such strategic storage or import facilities.
​Very few other countries have made themselves this dependent on gas and fooled themselves into thinking wind would replace it.

[Ireland's Energy Mix @XEnergyIreland]

Wind helps us save millions of cubic meters of gas burning on windy days. Thank you, wind. But we have hit peak wind, so don't expect an increase in those fuel burn savings in your lifetime or your kid's lifetime.

​Wind does not set our wholesale price of electricity; gas does, ultimately. Wind also increases the portions of our bill that we pay as final retail price of electricity. Wind increases overall grid/network costs and even increases the cost of running a gas plant itself.

​Solar doesn't work at night and is barely noticed in the winter.

​Gas supplies almost 100% backup of our entire electricity grid; therefore, it is critical for EV car charging and those with heat pumps for heating. For electrification of society, it's therefore critical.

​Gas is always required...100% of the time, 365/24/7, as it supplies synchronous power and will be required for the rest of this century at least (beyond 2100)

​1/3 of households, mainly urban, use that same gas for heating their homes with gas boilers; another 10% now rely on our gas-backed grid to operate electrically powered heat pumps.

​Ireland has zero days of gas storage availability and is the only country that is fully reliant on gas AND has no such strategic storage or import facilities.
​Very few other countries have made themselves this dependent on gas and fooled themselves into thinking wind would replace it.

[karldeeter ⭐ @karldeeter]

Student union ideology when you have a hand on the nations rudder is not a good look. Blaming 'the private sector' (the source of virtually all govt income) is about as retrograde as it gets. Why not look to obvious causes like regulations, net zero, carbon taxes, anti-oil etc?