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Climate Change, Carbon Emissions
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- Hotrodder
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Electricity costs going up and up and up alongside increasing demands on already struggling systems. Now we are being bullied into buying electric cars to increase demand even more.
Humanity landed on the moon over fifty years ago but it seems too much to ask for a reliable telephone/internet service in rural France.
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Yes - but modern charging systems may be two-way in future - your EV becomes a power store that can be drawn upon by the grid at times of high demand.
And it costs the grid nothing for this store!
Of course, an EV owner may be a bit hacked off if their battery is flat in the morning.
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Forego the trip to work you mean, so your neighbour can have another cup of tea?niemeyjt wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 5:29 pmYes - but modern charging systems may be two-way in future - your EV becomes a power store that can be drawn upon by the grid at times of high demand.
And it costs the grid nothing for this store!
Of course, an EV owner may be a bit hacked off if their battery is flat in the morning.
- Bayleaf
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I thought there was already a government scheme to help encourage installation of solar panels? We're hoping to go down this road soon .....Spardo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:04 pm
To my mind solar for private homes is probably the least worst as long as you don't live under a permanent cloud, but the set-up initial costs are, or at least were when I last looked into it, prohibitive except for the young, and those are the ones least likely to afford it. A good case for government investment ?
- Hotrodder
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I'm happy to have the government pay for a roof full of solar panels, particularly if they pay for the renovation to make it watertight first.
Humanity landed on the moon over fifty years ago but it seems too much to ask for a reliable telephone/internet service in rural France.
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Too late for us, if there is, when I investigated a long time ago the pay back period I reckoned would long out live me. Maybe things have changed, I would love to know if they have I have 2 south and west facing rooves and a third which catches the morning sun.Bayleaf wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 6:54 pmI thought there was already a government scheme to help encourage installation of solar panels? We're hoping to go down this road soon .....Spardo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:04 pm
To my mind solar for private homes is probably the least worst as long as you don't live under a permanent cloud, but the set-up initial costs are, or at least were when I last looked into it, prohibitive except for the young, and those are the ones least likely to afford it. A good case for government investment ?
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And that - together with providing an original roof - may be the only time it makes sense.