Domestic radiator
Hairshirts all round to ‘save the climate’? Not likely. It’s just another admission that current energy policies are no good, due to endlessly obsessing about harmless trace gases in the atmosphere.
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Millions of families will be urged by a green quango not to heat their homes in the evening to help the Government hit its net zero target, says The Telegraph.
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) said people should turn off their radiators at peak times as part of a wider drive to deliver “emissions savings”.
In a document on “behaviour change” the body recommended Britons “pre-heat” their houses in the afternoon when electricity usage is lower.
It said the move would save families money, but critics suggested the real reason was that renewables will not be able to provide enough energy to cope with peak demand.
The advice is contained in the CCC’s sixth “carbon budget” paper, which sets out how the UK should reduce its emissions between 2033-37.
In it the quango suggests people with electrically powered heating systems, such as heat pumps, should switch off their radiators in the evening.
“There is significant potential to deliver emissions savings, just by changing the way we use our homes,” the dossier states.
“Where homes are sufficiently well insulated, it is possible to pre-heat ahead of peak times, enabling access to cheaper tariffs which reflect the reduced costs associated with running networks and producing power during off-peak times.”
The green quango said that by 2033 all newly built homes and up to half of those constructed after 1952 should be suitable for such pre-heating.
But critics said the advice was just the latest example of Britons being asked to compromise on their quality of life so the Government can hit climate targets.
Andrew Montford, the director of Net Zero Watch said: “The grid is already creaking, and daft ideas like this show just how much worse it will become.
“It’s clear that renewables are a disaster in the making. We now need political leaders with the courage to admit it.”
Full article here.
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Craig Mackinlay, head of the Net Zero Scrutiny group of Tory MPs, added: “It is becoming clear that adherence to judicable Carbon Budgets and edicts coming from the CCC are developing into farce.
“The Climate Change Act 2008 will require amendment to free us from madcap and impractical targets foisted upon the population by long departed politicians.
“This latest advice to freeze ourselves on cold evenings merely shows the truth that the dream of plentiful and cheap renewable energy is a sham.
“I came into politics to improve all aspects of my constituents’ lives, not make them colder and poorer.”
OH I just do like this article very much ( sarc ?) … aye like buying diesel cars first, and being told to turn down / off heating when you are out, well MOST people are IN at night when it’s coldest. … what Planet and or shift do these gowks work on/in?
“daft ideas like this show just how much worse it will become.” … so they KNOW that then? but continue regardless. Just like our News readers “presenters” telling us all this tripe. Complicit ? Why did we go Study to LEARN practical subjects to be governed / told all this nonsense by nincompoops ?
Bollocks to that!
“pre-heat” their houses in the afternoon when electricity usage is lower.”
So like shooing out the prostitutes from one part of the city they show up in another part.
If everybody shifts heating their homes earlier in the day, the usage will be just as high. Like prostitutes, heating the house is here to stay.
The CCC has worked out that the sun doesn’t shine on winter evenings 🙄
I have said it before but will say it again ‘the climate change act need to be repealed’ – there is no logical reason for it.
Reading the list of the members of that quango, there isn’t one of them I would trust with a real job because they would completely mess it up and I worry about the universities that some of them teach at and the quality of the student degrees from those places.
How has the country fallen.
What next? Preheat your evening dinner in the afternoon and then eat it much later when it’s cold? The Net Zero Idiocracy marches ever onwards.
Next: donate your EV battery power to the Grid in the evening and hope to get it back before morning, thus reducing the effective life and long-term performance of the battery.
Snow in AUGUST! , yess indeed this now: around Turin Foof, been such a hot summer ( ends in August & it’s not September yet) https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/piemonte/torino/sestriere.html
1 If people are cold they will find a source of heat. End of story. ‘Govern policy’ will not be a moderating factor.
2 there will always be knowledge that those telling the common herd to turn their heating of will not be doing it themselves.
saighdear – snowfall in the Dolomites in August isn’t unusual, seen it myself, but warmists shouting ‘hottest ever’ should wind their necks in a bit and stop accusing humanity.
The Times accuses its fellow media:
Blaming climate change for everything is lazy
This is wildfire season, yet media and politicians are dangerously conflating regular weather events with an apocalypse
Friday August 25 2023
The media, including the BBC, now robotically tack on to every story about a geological event or bad weather (all weather stories are bad stories; a good weather story is just a nice day) that “scientists say” the phenomenon is due to human-induced climate change.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f2726192-4373-11ee-8b31-3c9c533abb75?shareToken=c4edc2b1b8d65bd18063d45fa2d44cfe
IPCC- supporting “scientists say” that scientists who don’t agree with IPCC climate theories can’t be proper scientists, so should be ignored – or worse. The ‘no true Scotsman’ fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Home heating policy is a major headache for government climate worriers trying to apply useless net zero rules …
Shapps risks backlash by forcing ‘luxury’ heat pumps on households, warns energy boss
Fears of ‘heat hammer-style’ rebellion if expensive heating systems imposed
28 August 2023
“Heat pumps are a luxury product for folks who’ve got £13,000 in the bank.”
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Some energy experts have also dismissed hydrogen as an overly expensive solution for residential heating, because of the relatively high energy requirement to produce it and the low efficiency of burning it.
Greg Jackson, the chief executive of Octopus Energy, has compared it to “flushing the toilet with champagne”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/28/sunak-risks-backlash-forcing-luxury-heat-pumps-households/
I have a air to air heat pump, and a super insulated house. The pump is a much more efficient heater when the ambient temperature is warmer. So, during winter, I heat the house when the outside air is warmer, then let it coast through the night, while I’m safely under covers. This cuts my electricity usage (for heat) by about 30-50%. And, being a frugal person, I do that whenever I have the time. (I also have a wood burning heater)