But if it stops moving periodically because it can't get past then the journey time will be a bit longer there will be more cars on the road at the same time as it backs up slightly. If there's an accident on the motorway that shuts it then the number of cars overall is the same as every other day, but there will be more cars held up by it thus creating more cars on that stretch of road and cars on the road for longer because they're stuck.
It's pretty shit. Especially galling when for quite a long section of it there's wide paths and/or patches of grass that could have been used to put in a cycle lane. They've made an absolute pigs ear of it.
The FIT tariff as they were called were introduced as it was new technology. Started about 13 years ago but at the time a system would have cost approx 12 k in that times money. They were cut about 3 years later as the cost of systems came down as any new technology does. I paid £8000 for a 4 kWh system then. The incentive being the energy firms pay you for every kWh you produce for the next 25 years. Once the cost of a 4 kWh system dropped below 5k the incentive was removed and replaced by some called I think SEG. Now for every kWh you generate but don’t use you only get 5p per kWh. You won’t make much doing that though. The real saving is what you save using electric at different times of the day so you have to alter your life style a bit. E.G. have the washing machine come on at 11 a.m. dryer at say 12.30 Dishwasher 2 and so on. You can also have a system fitted which heats you hot water provided you have an immersion. Costs about £250. I don’t use gas to heat water from March till October so that pays for itself very quickly.
Costs of adapting to climate change effects will be even higher.
I would have thought so but I don’t really know. What would help is if the riches countries put their hands in their pockets and made use of the sun in the deserts in Africa, likewise in Australia and the Middle East. A high proportion of the worlds energy needs could be produced using land that nobody really uses.
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Goes to show nothing can be trusted when you add a financial incentive to it. While we cling to it as an outdated measure of success we're even more fucked than we already will be.
Absolutely. If I could be bothered I’d share some of China statistics. The amount of renewable they have is staggering, the issue is they’re a developing nation still and manufacture a lot. This will change though.
We should invest and go for it as the country has very little going for it in the coming decades. We won’t though because the ideology is tax cuts and everyone for themselves.
If this first point is true it is absolutely terrible. So for the next 5 years their use of fossil fuel will rise and God knows how slowly it will decline after that. It's catastrophic.
Power is diverted. Does everything in the house first then the water then a battery then the car. But you can change the order you want it done any time.
They already have. Sunak cut vat to zero on new installations earlier this year. So if you buy a pv ststem anything you buy with it at that time only also has 0% vat.
