A few snippets from the last few weeks.
Insulation from E&T:
28 year plan at £7 Billion per year, a total of £196 Billion. 24 million properties to be upgraded so just over £8000 per property. Is that enough just to insulate let alone add a heat pump and replace the existing heating system?
Will it save the country Billions?
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Hydrogen and carbon capture from the Guardian:
‘World-first’ hydrogen project raises questions about its role in fuelling future homes
Even the Guardian seems to be suggesting that ‘green’ hydrogen for heating homes may not be such a good idea.
Carbon capture and storage schemes, a key plank of many governments’ net zero plans, “is not a climate solution”, the author of a major new report on the technology has said.
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Not all biomass is carbon neutral, industry admits as EU reviews policy
Small scale local biomass using waste wood may be ok. Big biomass is certainly not beneficial.
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Let’s try fracking or new nuclear from the Engineer:
Moratorium on fracking lifted in government effort to ensure energy supplies.
Atomic Smitten: New nuclear gears up for net zero challenge.
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All of these are engineering/science problems. Where is the engineering input? Do any of them actually make sense in payback on resources used?
Currently I see nuclear as the most practical solution but it is made difficult politically. Asia can build nuclear power plants faster and at less cost that the west, why?
The green movement has actively blocked nuclear developments for years, mostly using made up data as George Monbiot found out:
‘The green movement has misled the world about the dangers of radiation.’
https://www.monbiot.com/2011/04/04/evidence-meltdown/
‘We have to be sure our facts about nuclear power are right, as the latest exchange with Helen Caldicott shows.’
https://www.monbiot.com/2011/04/13/why-this-matters/
Even the green German government has finally held on to it’s last two nuclear power plants just in case:
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Two-German-plants-to-be-held-in-reserve-temporaril
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So where are we going? What’s the Plan?
