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And I wonder: how many of us would — or even could — pay at least £10,000 for a heating system to replace our polluting but efficient gas boiler for something that just takes the chill off?

Yes, that’s what it costs. The promise of a £5,000 grant from next April is only for the lucky few. The Government’s own target is 600,000 heat pumps a year.

The handouts will cover just 30,000. And only for three years. Perhaps the tooth fairy will help out.

I jest but this is no laughing matter. The world is facing a real crisis.

It’s true that this country accounts for less than 1 per cent of the carbon that’s wrecking our precious atmosphere. China accounts for 28 per cent and is massively increasing its use of coal to generate power.

But it matters here at home because this is a moral issue. We must do everything in our power to repair the terrible harm we have already done and, above all, stop it getting even worse.

That’s why Boris Johnson’s statement this week should fill us with both despair and anger — specifically at the lack of detail. He promises that this country will be ‘net zero’ by 2050, but does not tell us how.

That’s because he’s scared of the electorate. He knows that if the targets are to be met there must be enormous technical advances in crucial areas such as carbon capture and storage, and producing hydrogen without fossil fuels.

It will cost vast sums, and he wants us to believe that the private sector can and should pick up the biggest bills.

Otherwise taxpayers will have to, which will not be popular — and Boris wants very badly to be popular.

He’s hardly unique. But he obviously believes if he can jolly us along with his feel-good approach, throwing in the odd joke, we’ll sit at his feet like an adoring puppy gazing up at its master.

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It is hard to believe some people are both this ignorant, and this irrational.

The writer is both.

I do not doubt the bottom line of this story, BUT who considers a ground-sourced geothermal heat pump system without thinking about the cost of electricity?

It will cost vast sums, and he wants us to believe that the private sector can and should pick up the biggest bills.

Otherwise taxpayers will have to, which will not be popular — and Boris wants very badly to be popular.

The man isn’t stupid but is still an idiot or thinks his audience is.

Either way the the public pays. Sure the private sector will do it more efficiently and find the cheapest way.

But any government forced and massive project like this has enormous opportunity cost.

These government mandated projects redirect resources and redirect them to specific industries to which they other wise not go. These industries then balloon in size out of proportion to their normal societal requirements.

As with any Government directed move in the economy there will be a boom in on sector followed by a bust after which the industry is saddled with excess capacity that will not be redirected elsewhere.

These government mandates create nothing but waste and pain.

It’s true that this country accounts for less than 1 per cent of the carbon that’s wrecking our precious atmosphere. China accounts for 28 per cent and is massively increasing its use of coal to generate power.
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To believe man can wreck the atmosphere one must deny the existence of a Creator God. If God then then man is not in control of the planet. If no God then one must simply live for today, everyday, therefore why worry since the Chinese don’t.

As for heat pumps, they are a terrible solution in an area of high humidity for winter or summer they never remove the moisture that creates the clammy cold or the sticky heat. They didn’t work 50 years ago and they are not the solution now.

Good luck to you, dehumidifiers may help.

Government is and will remain the problem in the land of good intentions.

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