Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another incredibly frustrating thing for me is the amount of regular people adamantly against any green energy being built near them. Which basically means no where in the country.

  Would these people prefer an coal plant??

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the right wing media for you. I don’t have them blocked in my newsfeed so I can see what they are up to and it is a completely different world - pretty much anything green gets hammered.

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    • CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bless you. I do have them blocked. I don’t need the aggravation in my life.

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We need to start calling it blue, not green.

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  • PixelTron@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My reply to them is: “Would you prefer to live next to a nuclear plant, or some turbines/solar fields?”

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• Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Having lived in Australia and New Zealand and spent time in Chicago. British houses are horseshit.

  Don’t even need heating in standard UK temps if the building is insulated. Air to air heat pumps are amazing, induction is amazing, no issues with electric water heaters.

  Living in fucking 1975. But everyone’s ideal is trying to upgrade to a 1850 wood burning stove. Buy a fucking heat pump and some insulation.

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  • frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, but then you’ll have to put up will all the folks whining about new builds, and that a waste outlet pipe wasn’t connected properly, Vs a 60-70s that’s still standing so must be much better, as long as we ignore the black mold in the cavity that is slowly killing us.

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    • DrCake@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And also the 40 odd years of “DIY” bodge jobs holding it all together

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  • Docus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Heat pumps are great when the house is designed for it. Average uk house with shitty insulation and radiators that are unable to heat the room unless the water is really hot - it’s not going to work well.

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    • alibloke@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not true. Heat pumps just need to be sized correctly

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t see how and air to air heat pump wouldn’t work.

      Insulation needs to be solved yes. But if you heating your house with gas verse electricity if the output is the same then the result is the same.

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  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My parents 1741 house with new double glazing is like that - cool in summer, hot in winter without even needing the heating

    I’m amazed that we collectively forgot how to build houses but I guess 2ft thick walls make a dent in the size of the living space and you’ve got to build a box with paper thin walls and no garden to optimise that

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks conservatives!

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