09-02-2020, 12:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-02-2020, 12:07 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
It ain't going to happen - this is virtue signalling by the Government and, if implemented, commercial suicide.
Never mind cars, what about the hundreds of thousands of trucks on the road - can they be replaced?
The thousands of standby diesel generators feeding the grid now in use and expanding?
The millions of small industrial generators used in industry?
The tens of thousands of diesel-powered cargo ships?
The thousands of commercial airliners, with passenger and aircraft numbers set to almost double by 2036?
The infrastructure and power stations required to electrify all transport? - it's calculated at hundreds of billions of pounds. Besides building hundreds of more coal-fired power station at home, China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines.
And all for what? The UK emits less than 1% of all man-made CO2 - and that's only 23% of the normal total of a gas that's just 0.04% of the atmosphere. And the next madness?(through promoted by a quango, not the Government) get rid of all gas boilers. Yes, that's a brilliant idea when the energy unit cost for electricity is four times that of gas and if you burn the gas to make electricty (rather than at the point of use) the efficiency loss through the transmission system is considerable. Interesting times, eh, St. Greta.
Never mind cars, what about the hundreds of thousands of trucks on the road - can they be replaced?
The thousands of standby diesel generators feeding the grid now in use and expanding?
The millions of small industrial generators used in industry?
The tens of thousands of diesel-powered cargo ships?
The thousands of commercial airliners, with passenger and aircraft numbers set to almost double by 2036?
The infrastructure and power stations required to electrify all transport? - it's calculated at hundreds of billions of pounds. Besides building hundreds of more coal-fired power station at home, China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines.
And all for what? The UK emits less than 1% of all man-made CO2 - and that's only 23% of the normal total of a gas that's just 0.04% of the atmosphere. And the next madness?(through promoted by a quango, not the Government) get rid of all gas boilers. Yes, that's a brilliant idea when the energy unit cost for electricity is four times that of gas and if you burn the gas to make electricty (rather than at the point of use) the efficiency loss through the transmission system is considerable. Interesting times, eh, St. Greta.
(09-02-2020, 11:19 AM)Chris KC Wrote: I have high hopes that western civilisation as we know it will be over by then.....and its replacement?