Scotland Ban Gas Fired Boilers

[nicebutdim]

 

[brianmoooore]

“Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter…Transmutation of the elements, unlimited power, ability to investigate the working of living cells by tracer atoms, the secret of photosynthesis about to be uncovered, these and a host of other results, all in about fifteen short years. It is not too much to expect that our children will know of great periodic famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under the and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a life span far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.”
Written in the USA in 1954, and I can remember similar on UK TV possibly on Tomorrow's World in the early '60s.
2nd half just about came to pass, but the first bit???

 

[stevethesparks]

All posters to this section have renewed my faith that not everyone in the UK has gone bonkers. Its always been that when discussing various subjects with customers and many others you meet that it rarely compares to what we are being fed by the media.

 

[SparkyChick]

All posters to this section have renewed my faith that not everyone in the UK has gone bonkers. Its always been that when discussing various subjects with customers and many others you meet that it rarely compares to what we are being fed by the media.

In recent years I've found it quite refreshing how often politics comes up... I tend to not broach the subject because it can be so decisive, but overall the majority of people I speak to are broadly aligned with the sentiments express in this thread. The problem is that people are so scared to voice it because overall even if (like many of us) you don't have to worry about your job security because you're your own boss, saying the wrong thing on-line can have serious ramifications.

Many of the games I play for example have updated their user agreements and if you say the wrong thing you could lose your accounts, even if where you say it is nothing to do with them, and unfortunately with each passing year this sort of thing is only getting worse.

The worst part of this is that the bulk of it is driven by an incredibly small number of very vocal people and no one wants to be seen by anyone else as disregarding their issues because that would make you think... if they don't give a dam about them... do they give a dam about me?

 

[littlespark]

I try to stay away from potential customers if they still have a massive YES flag in their window

 

[pc1966]

The worst part of this is that the bulk of it is driven by an incredibly small number of very vocal people and no one wants to be seen by anyone else as disregarding their issues because that would make you think... if they don't give a dam about them... do they give a dam about me?

You seem to have defined Twitter in three lines!

 

[telectrix]

i considered getting an electric van, scrapping gas and going all electric, fitting solar panels and a wind generator. my bank manager fell off his chair.

 

[Intoelectrics]

Scotland to ban oil and gas-fired boilers in all new homes from 2024

Proposal means Scottish government will introduce ban ahead of England and Wales

uk.yahoo.com

Does this mean that all the "gas engineers" are to be down graded back to "plumbers"?

 

[Intoelectrics]

i considered getting an electric van, scrapping gas and going all electric, fitting solar panels and a wind generator. my bank manager fell off his chair.

Well looking at the data (assuming global warming is actually caused by burning fossil fuels) with the current technology on batteries, from start to finish, mining the raw materials to disposing of the battery at the end of its life, you will need to do 400,000 + miles in your new electric van on the original battery for it to work out "greener" overall than your diesel van. So I'd stick with the old diesel and keep on burning the chip fat.

 

[pirate]

Diesel!
Diesel! Diesel!
DIESEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[telectrix]

way these green loonies are going, interferining with nature, there'll be too little CO2 left to sustain plant life.