No Climate Emergency

Hi Roger P, thank you for your excellently researched submission regarding the necessary conditions for 'stability' in our synchronously powered 50Hz rotating machine derived national grid system. It is so refreshing and about time we had some properly considered analysis of what is actually possible and truly cost effective.


It occurs to me that there is a simple, but necessarily expensive solution to this problem of incompatibility between the competing systems, namely:


We plan and financially budget for the provision/purchase of individual (or access to shared community based systems) solar/wind powered installations to charge up the  batteries - e.g. every purchase of an (enormously wasteful, payload inefficient - 75Kg driver as payload carried by anything from an 800Kg to 2400kg kerb weight platform) electric car or SUV - HAS to be accompanied by the mandatory purchase/rental of a suitable roof mounted solar panel installation - principally designed to charge up the (currently fashionable 300 Kg of 64KWh Li-Ion based battery) 400 volt battery typically deployed in such vehicles.


Admittedly, this action would place even more of the financial burden of making the transition to a BEV to the customer. It is already a prohibitively expensive purchase with initial price comparisons of nominally similar vehicles already being typically £17k for a conventional small family SUV vs circa £35k for its battery electric version.


Calculations of comparative cost of ownership of ICE vs BEV over any period of time - say from 3 years to 20 years appear to indicate that the BEV offers little or no real domestic cost saving and apart from the benefit of zero tailpipe emissions from the BEV when travelling in built up areas, 'whole life cycle' carbon footprint and environmental impact assessments do not make a sufficiently compelling case for us to all make the transition.


Finally, may I add that any one who lives in our almost permanently traffic congested home counties here in the UK will be aware of how much time and money is wasted just driving to work and back. An obvious remedy to AT LEAST 50% of all this unnecessary pollution and dilution of our 'work - life balance' has been available for over 20 years, courtesy of high speed, high capacity, secure, fibre optic telecommunications systems. When is the dream of congestion free roads and more 'spare time for all' going to become reality?


Where there is a will - there is a way ! Maybe governments and corporations should reconsider their lack of support for this way of living - after all - it is not rocket science is it ?

 

Hi Roger P, thank you for your excellently researched submission regarding the necessary conditions for 'stability' in our synchronously powered 50Hz rotating machine derived national grid system. It is so refreshing and about time we had some properly considered analysis of what is actually possible and truly cost effective.


It occurs to me that there is a simple, but necessarily expensive solution to this problem of incompatibility between the competing systems, namely:


We plan and financially budget for the provision/purchase of individual (or access to shared community based systems) solar/wind powered installations to charge up the  batteries - e.g. every purchase of an (enormously wasteful, payload inefficient - 75Kg driver as payload carried by anything from an 800Kg to 2400kg kerb weight platform) electric car or SUV - HAS to be accompanied by the mandatory purchase/rental of a suitable roof mounted solar panel installation - principally designed to charge up the (currently fashionable 300 Kg of 64KWh Li-Ion based battery) 400 volt battery typically deployed in such vehicles.


Admittedly, this action would place even more of the financial burden of making the transition to a BEV to the customer. It is already a prohibitively expensive purchase with initial price comparisons of nominally similar vehicles already being typically £17k for a conventional small family SUV vs circa £35k for its battery electric version.


Calculations of comparative cost of ownership of ICE vs BEV over any period of time - say from 3 years to 20 years appear to indicate that the BEV offers little or no real domestic cost saving and apart from the benefit of zero tailpipe emissions from the BEV when travelling in built up areas, 'whole life cycle' carbon footprint and environmental impact assessments do not make a sufficiently compelling case for us to all make the transition.


Finally, may I add that any one who lives in our almost permanently traffic congested home counties here in the UK will be aware of how much time and money is wasted just driving to work and back. An obvious remedy to AT LEAST 50% of all this unnecessary pollution and dilution of our 'work - life balance' has been available for over 20 years, courtesy of high speed, high capacity, secure, fibre optic telecommunications systems. When is the dream of congestion free roads and more 'spare time for all' going to become reality?


Where there is a will - there is a way ! Maybe governments and corporations should reconsider their lack of support for this way of living - after all - it is not rocket science is it ?