Electricity bills !

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

A good read here- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdedjnw8e85o

 

Including- 

 

 

 

no wonder our bills keep going up! 

 

[Craigieboy]

Read it, crazy isn't it and all the while they are trying to push us into electric cars. I would miby consider one if it was cheaper like they are in Norway.

 

I've watched a few videos of a bunch of microlight flyers and they always know when they've crossed the border into Scotland, because the wind farms start!

[Stuart]

4 hours ago, Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO said:

A good read here- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdedjnw8e85o

 

Including- 

 

 

 

no wonder our bills keep going up! 

 

Issue is that the grid is crap. So it's that or pylons everywhere. Great planning by our short term governments as always 

[Craigieboy]

I watched a bit of Simon Reeve in Norway on the BBC. Apparently before North Sea oil was discovered in 1969, it was pretty much a backwater with fishing the only industry. 

They however invested their oil money and now have a 13 trillion public bond. So they can fund all the public spending they want and however much they spend per year the interest on the bond is soo much, it still goes up. 

[Blatman]

6 hours ago, Stuart said:

Issue is that the grid is crap. So it's that or pylons everywhere. Great planning by our short term governments as always 

A little harsh. I doubt any politician or industry expert saw "this" coming.

We, like France, should have built more nuclear power stations but the same is true, no-one saw "this" coming so we didn't.

The nuclear nay-sayers might well argue that pylons are prefereable to plutonium (ok, Uranium, but I like aliteration...).

So we're left with "we must do something" and the government du jour will do something that the majority will object to and when voted out the next lot will fully or partially dismantle it for something equally unplatable. 

I think what we can agree on is net zero by 2030 is not going to happen in real life, but the numbers will say it has and it will be clear that we all payed for this **** show as usual.

If they could just all agree that hydrogen is the way forwards we could get some stuff done...