UK's energy bills were £22bn higher over the past decade than they would have been if Conservative governments had not cut “green crap” climate policies.
£9bn due to not having built more cheap onshore wind, £5bn due to poorly insulated homes, £5bn due to low solar deployment, £3bn because new homes were built less efficient.
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.
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.
@rimu@piefed.social@breadsmasher@lemmy.world I've lived next to both, and it makes no difference. Both are good neighbors. I won't live near coal power plants or oil refineries though.
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.
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.
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.
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