"Green" policies are destroying this country

Well if there so great why was I told by two plumbers and an engineer now that I think of it done bother. I was even considering a hybrid system.

Told it was a money racket

Car manufacturers don't get to decide. Emissions regulations are set by governments and very few governments (and bodies like the EU) will allow new ICE sales post 2030 apart from very limited specialist vehicles

Heat pumps work in reverse technology of a fridge. Do you remember those old fridges with the coil on the back. Same working principle only instead of drawing out heat. It draws in any ambient heat outside blows it over evaporater.

The refrigerant evaporates is compressed by a compressor condensing it creating heat. Run through a heat exchanger and hey pressdo hot water.

But not the near the same temp as fossil fuel burner.

Electricity prices have gone up by 25 percent in 1 year. Your average heat pump uses 4,000 kW of electricity annually in prime conditions at about 30 cent per kw and this is only going one way as someone will have to pay for all these new offshore windfarms. I would hazard a guess that within 3 years a kw will be nearly 50 cent. That is nearly 2000 a year to heat your house. You can add another 500 to that if we get a very cold winter as well. I will gladly stick to my range and well insulated house. Costs a fraction of that.

What a ridiculous post!!

you are trying to shame me for paying down debt owed on my house instead of putting me and my family into more debt to make minimal changes to my carbon footprint?

Your talking pure crap!

Do you honestly think I’m on my own in thinking this?

I have no idea why cop26 lasts so long and why the first agenda for all green leaders isn't developing more nuclear power, it's clearly logical, people have just become entrenched in their opposition. It's either that or they genuinely do not like economic growth and capitalism but I believe that is only a minority of hard core activists. Its like anything but nuclear. We are going to build expensive interconnects and pump water into magical reservoirs and double wind. We will build hundreds more turbines, we will mine all the lithium and cobalt, we will disrupt every skyline, we will have brown outs and black outs when the grid is unstable, we will lose economic investment, we will pay the highest price for energy and we will be dependent on geo politics for energy security. This is all preferable to a few small reactors of which there are many, running for decades in submarines and ice breakers. It's makes absolutely no sense.

I have gas which costs <5c per kilowatt. Yet all the heat pump lemmings reckon it's much better to rely on electricity at c.20c per Kw and rising. No thanks. Those heat pumps are generally useless unless your house is built for them. A lot of people also don't realise the physical size and space you need for them. The outside fan unit is large but then inside you need a hot water cylinder which is much larger than existing boiler footprints. Where do they go in a standard house with a boiler in the kitchen?

Like this is it. I mean if ya cant even provide a secure steady supply which does not keep increasing in price.

Yall have a hard time convincing people for a start not to talk of all the cost of retrofitting your home.

They are living on their own planet.

Maybe hydrogen fuel cells are the way to go for cars

And your post reflects the exact worries of 100's of thousands of people across the country,

Are the costs going to keep increasing every year, will it get to a stage that I can't afford to keep it on, this is the reason this will never take off,

Now if you were told that as more green energy and offshore wind turbines came online, the cost of electricity would come down. What would you say then?

Bet you would seriously consider it then.

I would consider it then, but as it stands I’m not confident of that happening. Prices in this country tend to only go one way.

It's sickening, really. The perpetrators like china having a great laugh while our own children are encouraged to make their own lives worse.

Misdirection, misappropriation, misalignment with reality.

We are directly subsidising the quality of life of people a million miles away, the same very people who are profiting off pollution.

Meanwhile, for example, the "special visa class" in Ireland is offered up to anyone in the world, but just so happens to be taken by 98% Chinese. That's our money they are using, to buy our property, in a housing crisis, while the government is nickel and diming us on everything, green policies included, to prop up the likes of China who pollutes the world with impunity. It's a circle of bullshaisse.

Things need to change.

how are our children being encouraged to make their lives worse?

what sh1te is this!

what polices will negatively impact their lives?

ffs, how do some get away with typing such sh1te!

reality, what reality would that be?