@Victor Churchill I think using electric is too expensive and that's why we Al use gas that will change soon and they will be the same so electric may become more popular.
To be sure, on my old (gonebust) supplier's tarriff gas was one fifth of the price of electricity per kWh. I'm pretty sure that's going to change come April and thereafter.@Victor Churchill I think using electric is too expensive and that's why we Al use gas that will change soon and they will be the same so electric may become more popular.
Ouch! I'd never heard of that, John. Although the Scottish system used electric heating elements, like you'd find in an immersion heater or kettle or wall mounted instant hot water heater, rather than induction heating. I'm going to have to get onto my mate who has a bee in his bonnet about electric induction and get some comparison figures. Thank you for the reference.Highland Council installed these Wet electric boiler systems a few years back Victor.
There was utter outrage at the cost of running them,Public meetings were held at which the attending Council officers were given a right roasting.
Over the next few years the council ripped them all out and replaced them with gas boilers.
In my case this amounted to nearly 70% anual heating savings.
Banning gas boilers after a certain date and replacing them with heat pumps is a disaster waiting to happen in my opinion.
You also have to question how environmentally friendly a scrap heap of millions of gas boilers and the mining of the materials needed to produce millions of heat pumps is.
If the dogs are outside while barking talk to them.I used to garden for a woman whose neighbour left a large angry sounding/looking dog outside.Everytime I went I used to talk to it and I could see it through the hedge.Eventually it stopped barking each time I went and let me stroke it through the something I wouldn't have attempted a few week previous.I would like a wood burner but the house next door makes our life a near misery with the smell of their smoke when the wind is in the wrong direction (for us) so I am holding fire (ha ha) at the moment.
What I hope will happen is the Government will eventually ban woodburners being used in day light hours at least.
I am sorry, but anyone that doesn't believe we have created this mess for ourselves is in denial.
Do not expect many likes for this post but it is what it is!
Whilst on about next door anyone any ideas how I can shut there dogs up without shooting them, or losing my voice shouting at them?
There is an online series of courses run by Future Learn on global warming/climate change its causes and ways of possibly negating its effects. If you can spare three hours a week well worth the time and effort, just google.
We are surrounded by water why not use waves?
You also have to question how environmentally friendly a scrap heap of millions of gas boilers and the mining of the materials needed to produce millions of heat pumps is.
A few examples would be:-
North sea oil will have us all living like the arab Oil Shieks "loaded"
Atomic power would see electric so cheap it would be given away FREE.
With the silicon chip revoulution in the future no-one will need to work more than 1 day a week.
The list is actually far longer and more extensive than this.
The whole point of the 2035 deadline is that nobody needs to be scrapping gas boilers to install heat pumps - the average life of a boiler is 10-15 years, so the heat pump option needs to be compared, not against nothing, but against mining minerals to produce millions of replacement gas boilers.
Don't waste your energy shouting. All the dog hears is something barking back at them which just encourages them to bark more.Whilst on about next door anyone any ideas how I can shut there dogs up without shooting them, or losing my voice shouting at them?
Sorry Northern brewer Unitil recently (19yrs ago) i had a pristine copy of 1970 "Tomorows Wold".
Great fanfare they made about north sea oil and gas.
The government encouraged it ,Now Aberdeen and a few of the chosen few did indeed prosper mightly
Nope northern brewer I was not refering to fusion
I was infact refering to a 1950s article about Calder Hall a magnox fission reactor.
They even thought cars,homes,plane and ships would be all nuculear in a few years at the time.
What was a game changer was chernoble in the mid 1980s
What a horrible prospect.
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