Posted on 02/06/2020 5:23:31 PM PST by karpov
Plans to put ten million electric vehicles on the road within ten years and rip gas central heating from every home are unveiled today.
Energy regulator Ofgem has outlined how the nation will have to change the way it travels and heats homes to meet the Governments target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The radical scheme to greenwire Britain will be built around plans for a four-fold increase in electricity from wind farms around the coast. But the proposals will largely be paid for by families and businesses, adding billions of pounds to bills over the next 30 years.
It is suggested that building and running the infrastructure to support the roll-out of electric vehicles could be £2billion a year, equivalent to £30 on every household bill.
And switching away from natural gas heating and hot water for homes and businesses will require spending as much as £20billion a year by 2050.
And it is proposing that owners of electric cars charge them through the night when power is cheap and then sell it back to the national grid at a higher price at peak periods.
As a result, the embedded power stored in the cars batteries will reduce the need to build new gas-fired power stations.
Ofgem said: Increased uptake of electric vehicles creates a rare opportunity for a win-win-win for society, through lower carbon emissions, improved air quality and a more robust and low-cost energy system. But this will only be achieved if drivers are supported to charge their vehicles typically at off-peak times.
Support for drivers using their electric vehicles in novel ways will also be needed, for example by vehicle-to-grid technology to share energy from car batteries back to the electricity grid when it is needed.
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So how do they plan on creating all this electricity they intend to consume.
NG turbine engines I suspect.
Beyond stupid, this is insane! Using electricity to heat homes? Power plants are about 20 percent efficient. The rest of the energy is waste heat. At least with gas heating most of the energy actually goes into heating the home.
I like it. Supply and demand. Them using less Natural Gas will keep prices lower here in the good old U S of A. That’s good for me!
you charge your car at night from juice produced by the solar panels, silly
The UK had central heating in Roman times only, and then got it back in the 50s... now the UK is going to go back again to the dark ages freezing because some underage brat from Sweden was used as accuser in a witch hunt
Dark ages it is, and what is aggravating is when you have relatives or coworkers who live with this Earth flatter vicious prosecutorial mentality of nuts. (Yes because like for observation of celestial object, they all indicate they are round and warming because of the sun and not because of man made effect)
The question is what energy source will they use to generate electricity. If they use natural gas like America does they are going to have to use 4 times as much to get the same heating a home gas heater would have done.
Exactly. When your phone tells the parliament that you and your soccer mates all decided youre going “hoodling” about London and protesting over crippling taxes then you will be trapped at home. They don’t have to put in roadblocks or anything else. Try to run because that car isn’t getting you to the countryside when they come looking for you.
Now here is a recipe for disaster.
A wet dream of epic proportions.
What would be the’line loss’ on all the up and down conversions?
And riping out gas central heating?
In a cold month in northern Illinois I use 300 therms of gas.(30 million Btu/hr)
1 Watt `3.4 Btu/hr
~12,000 W/hr
For that, I would need an additional 100 Amps of service!!!
That will not be cheap!
I was thinking about that. It seems they would have a better chance of bringing Scotland along if they worked out a deal on the Scots coal/oil. More reliable independence for both and Scotland could get some people off of welfare.
If BoJo goes along with this folley, the Brits will de-industrialize, and the socialists will roar back into power by promising phony solutions. Maybe he’d listen to Trump and go for growth and prosperity instead.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part II ("Either-Or"), Chapter V ("Account Overdrawn"), page 498.
In the Land of Harry Potter energy magic will solve everything.
while they’re at it, they should also pull out all of that indoor plumbing too, nasty, racist, elitist, looking down their narrow Caucasian Noses at the third world while sitting on a vitreous china modern convenience, disease containing white technology mocking the natural world.
Several counties in the Soviet of Washington are pushing for the same thing. It is the ultimate in insanity.
Boris Johnson makes the Democrats (of 2008) look sane. Brexit apart, there’s something not right with today’s Tory leadership.
Yes, Boris, is a full-on warmist...
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/boris-johnson-pledges-ban-petrol-000908560.html
Why, that's sheer GENIUS!!!!
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
“The radical scheme to greenwire Britain will be built around plans for a four-fold increase in electricity from wind farms around the coast. “
Good luck with that. How many acres more of turbines do you need? I guess the carbon lobby is more powerful than the bird lobby.
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