Off the gas grid ...

[Wilko]

My quick thought - Leccie Cars and Leccie Heating may be a “quart in a pint bottle” with our existing buildings and infrastructure. We get home, plug in NoddyCar, turn on the heating and listen to the distant groans of large rotating machines slowing down ..

 

[marcuswareham]

I think heat pump are the way it will be going, air source or ground source. The price to buy them is already falling alot and with gas being phased out more manufacturers could pop up and prices fall. In a heat pump some electricity is used to run a compressor some valves and control gear so much much less electricity than a heating element.

I dont have gas at my house and my house is heated by logs, but i cant imagine that being the future

Maybe economy 7 will be re-promoted (with some new better storage heaters) (works absolutely fine for water, thats how mine is heated) , and with the plans to commission a new nuclear power plat that means more surplus electricity at night time. With electric cars also charging over night perhaps our useage patterns will shift, Also in the past gas central heating was less common and many homes had electric heating normally storage heaters did the grid cope then? Although at that time a open coal fire was alot more common for a heat boost also

 

[Zerax]

To make hydrogen you need electricity and seawater. Hydrogen production is an ideal way of using surplus electricity from wind turbines when demand is low.

Yeah... electrolysis... I remember doing that at school and hearing the pop! as you ignited the hydrogen you'd captured in the test tube.

But I don't think that process is currently used for commercial production... it's made from blowing high pressure steam into natural gas... so it's not really that 'green'.

 

[Zerax]

I dont have gas at my house and my house is heated by logs, but i cant imagine that being the future

I think it's interesting that 'coppicing' (growing trees specifically for making firewood) is actually very environmentally friendly... as the CO2 that is released when they are burnt is simply the CO2 that was absorbed over the last 7 years of the trees growth cycle. The only drawback with this is that each house would need a few acres of coppice...

 

[Mike Johnson]

In Kent the majority of Chestnut coppiced goes to make hop poles and fencing, small branches that can't be used are normally burnt where they fell, other than that any bent timber that can't be used for fencing or longer poles is chipped and mostly sent abroad to make pellets for burning, but this is a by product of the main use of Chestnut. Chestnut Coppicing – An ancient Kentish tradition. - http://www.doddingtonplacegardens.co.uk/chestnut-coppicing/

 

[GBDamo]

Really ... how likely is this to actually happen

New homes to be built off gas grid from 2025 under Government plans

All new homes could be built off the gas grid by 2025 under new plans being considered by the Government to remove fossil fuels from the heating sector. The installation of gas boilers in existing homes is likely to be phased out by the ‘mid-2030s’, according to the new energy white paper. The...

uk.yahoo.com

"Could" = won't.


(Apologise for accidentally reporting your post)

 

[Electrics]

I for one can't wait to pay 4 times more for heating up my water, it's better because climate or something.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Yes it's going to be the same old scenario as the diesel car fiasco, you must go diesel for you next car as it environmentally better for the planet, then once you do, increase the tax on the fuel, Oh and while I am at it I will sell off all our Gold reserves.