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An Taisce sharpens the axe for battle against Electric SUVs
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There's no real viable alternative to fossil fuels for heating yet because electricity is too expensive, in towns and cities Gas is probably going to be the only solution for many decades yet.
The focus on cars is insane, there's so many towns in Ireland choking under clouds of smoky coal, briquette and turf smoke even in towns with smoky coal bans. There was absolutely no mention of banning solid fuel burning.
Wood burning in the Country I wouldn't really have a problem with, I don't burn solid fuels myself, probably will install a pellet stove in the Sitting room soon, I live in the sticks and emissions would be low enough.
The budget missed the opportunity to introduce a feed-in-tariff so we still can't export to the grid and get paid so we can buy back energy in winter for heating. Still only allowed 5.5 Kw to the grid at least last time I checked.
Heat pumps remain very expensive, they're getting more efficient and can even replace oil boilers but to upgrade from Oil to Heat pump would take many years to pay off and at that the heat pump might only have a few years left before it needs serious investment in money.
Forcing People into small cars is not going to happen, a lot of People here have no idea what an SUV is, a Hyundai Kona and Nissan Qashqai for instance are small cars, not SUV. They're crossovers, there's a big difference.
Next we'll have People calling for electric cars to be no more than 80 HP, they'll say a 200 Hp Kona is far too powerful for Ireland and needs more energy because it's more powerful motor and we shouldn't need such outrageous power for Ireland.
Anyway, a lot of that rubbish about SUV looks like it came from some folk over in the cycling forum here on Boards. 0 -
[Deleted User] wrote: »The budget missed the opportunity to introduce a feed-in-tariff so we still can't export to the grid and get paid so we can buy back energy in winter for heating. Still only allowed 5.5 Kw to the grid at least last time I checked.
Would you prefer they removed the grant to provide a REFiT ?0 -
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Place brain in gear, then type.Deleted User wrote: »we didn't melt the ice during the last Ice Age ? no we didn't, that was some Climate change.
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put solar on your roof[Deleted User] wrote: »There's no real viable alternative to fossil fuels for heating yet because electricity is too expensive, in towns and cities Gas is probably going to be the only solution for many decades yet.
The focus on cars is insane, there's so many towns in Ireland choking under clouds of smoky coal, briquette and turf smoke even in towns with smoky coal bans. There was absolutely no mention of banning solid fuel burning.
Wood burning in the Country I wouldn't really have a problem with, I don't burn solid fuels myself, probably will install a pellet stove in the Sitting room soon, I live in the sticks and emissions would be low enough.
The budget missed the opportunity to introduce a feed-in-tariff so we still can't export to the grid and get paid so we can buy back energy in winter for heating. Still only allowed 5.5 Kw to the grid at least last time I checked.
Heat pumps remain very expensive, they're getting more efficient and can even replace oil boilers but to upgrade from Oil to Heat pump would take many years to pay off and at that the heat pump might only have a few years left before it needs serious investment in money.
Forcing People into small cars is not going to happen, a lot of People here have no idea what an SUV is, a Hyundai Kona and Nissan Qashqai for instance are small cars, not SUV. They're crossovers, there's a big difference.
Next we'll have People calling for electric cars to be no more than 80 HP, they'll say a 200 Hp Kona is far too powerful for Ireland and needs more energy because it's more powerful motor and we shouldn't need such outrageous power for Ireland.
Anyway, a lot of that rubbish about SUV looks like it came from some folk over in the cycling forum here on Boards.0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »There's no real viable alternative to fossil fuels for heating yet because electricity is too expensive, in towns and cities Gas is probably going to be the only solution for many decades yet.
The focus on cars is insane, there's so many towns in Ireland choking under clouds of smoky coal, briquette and turf smoke even in towns with smoky coal bans. There was absolutely no mention of banning solid fuel burning.
Wood burning in the Country I wouldn't really have a problem with, I don't burn solid fuels myself, probably will install a pellet stove in the Sitting room soon, I live in the sticks and emissions would be low enough.
The budget missed the opportunity to introduce a feed-in-tariff so we still can't export to the grid and get paid so we can buy back energy in winter for heating. Still only allowed 5.5 Kw to the grid at least last time I checked.
Heat pumps remain very expensive, they're getting more efficient and can even replace oil boilers but to upgrade from Oil to Heat pump would take many years to pay off and at that the heat pump might only have a few years left before it needs serious investment in money.
Forcing People into small cars is not going to happen, a lot of People here have no idea what an SUV is, a Hyundai Kona and Nissan Qashqai for instance are small cars, not SUV. They're crossovers, there's a big difference.
Next we'll have People calling for electric cars to be no more than 80 HP, they'll say a 200 Hp Kona is far too powerful for Ireland and needs more energy because it's more powerful motor and we shouldn't need such outrageous power for Ireland.
Anyway, a lot of that rubbish about SUV looks like it came from some folk over in the cycling forum here on Boards.
Nail on head.
Consider this though.
Electricity isn’t viable to heat homes which are already permanently tethered to the network.
Electricity is viable to power cars that run on batteries.
How can this be?
Oh yes - the tax they add to petrol and diesel for road cars makes electricity more attractive, even though that same electricity isn’t cheap enough to heat homes.
Solution: Tax natural gas, coal, wood, and any other means of heating a house so high that electricity is the ‘most viable’.
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