03-02-2020, 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Hot water? Install a hot water cylinder with electric immersion heater. Sorted and in most cases not a big job.Not in a domestic setting, no..what about a large hotel, hospital, nursing home the cost would be enormous
03-02-2020, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Primus1
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But if people have no income. How can they afford to pay for all these new systems?
03-02-2020, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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And what about the people who can't afford all these changes Todger?You and I are in a position where we can help the planet, but there are millions of people who's main concern is putting food on the table.
03-02-2020, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Maybe loans against the equity in property or means tested grant for the really skint.
03-02-2020, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiffany
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Well, if I have another 10 years which I doubt, not in my life time then. We have gas warm air vents, no radiators anywhere, just holes in the walls low down. It would take some doing in my house anyway & who would pay for it, not me on a pension.
Who pays? If your property loan against the equity in your property, if not - means tested grant no doubt.
03-02-2020, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Primus1
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I can see that being a vote winner for future governments
03-02-2020, 01:12 PM
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Britain's energy regulator unveils plan to rip out gas central heating from EVERY home and put 10 million electric vehicles on the road within 10 yearshttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-10-years.html
Energy regulator Ofgem has outlined how the nation will have to change the way it travels and heats homes to meet the Government’s target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The radical scheme to ‘greenwire’ Britain will be built around plans for a four-fold increase in electricity from wind farms around the coast. But the proposals will largely be paid for by families and businesses, adding billions of pounds to bills over the next 30 years.
It is suggested that building and running the infrastructure to support the roll-out of electric vehicles could be £2billion a year, equivalent to £30 on every household bill.
And switching away from natural gas heating and hot water for homes and businesses will require spending as much as £20billion a year by 2050.
It'll never happen .....
The cost overruns on the quoted figures will be astronomical .....
03-02-2020, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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There is no alternative.
03-02-2020, 01:18 PM
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It ain't gonna happen within 10 years.Look what happened with the changeover to Freeview ..
How many willingly dashed out and embraced that one?
Same with Smart meters.
People just don't have the money.
Look too how many dashed out and bought diesel cars .. and look at the poor so and so's now. Saddled with cars damned for their high pollutant emissions.
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Loaned against the equity of their property or means tested grant for the really skint.
Though Ofgem would like it ....
But the proposals will largely be paid for by families and businesses, adding billions of pounds to bills over the next 30 years.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-10-years.html
If the goverment are so keen they should foot the bill , take it from the Foreign Aid budget as they'll reduce us all to paupers if we have to fork out for it .....
but aside from that can you imagine the mess and upheaval in all the households in the country?
Ten years is an impossible target.
Better sticking to new builds with solar panels with more self sufficient low carbon footprints, minus gas, even though it was sold to the public as a 'clean fuel'.
Meanwhile, anyone training to be a gas fitter, STOP! .. and open a scrapyard instead.
Car conversion to electric vehicles however might be the better route to take. whatever happened to those air cars we heard about years ago?
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