The Daily Sceptic recently carried a piece warning about the Labour Party’s pending plans to create a new “cutting-edge curriculum” for Britain’s schools, the term “cutting-edge” here really meaning “filled to the brim with climate crap to indoctrinate the helpless young”. According to a report by the exam body OCR, which will be closely drawn upon by Labour for its planned re-write-cum-ruination of the syllabus, climate change is “the biggest existential crisis of our age”, and therefore children must urgently be taught how to become “carbon literate”, a skill which in the past merely meant being able to write their names using a pencil.
The only truly “cutting-edge” thing about the whole scheme will be making toddlers and teens want to slit their wrists in sheer climate-despair. So green-at-the-gills will Britain’s children inevitably become that the OCR warns a comprehensive programme of “eco-therapy” will later be needed in order to prevent them all succumbing to depression at the terrifying prospect of so many dead whales and sad polar bears. Might a better cure for this ailment not simply be to avoid having teachers shove all this alarmist dogma down their throats like captive goslings being fattened up for pseudo-educational foie gras in the first place?
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What pebble/flint wall would not be improved with a couple of heat exchangers in front of it? Lovely!
Hilarious.
And there choc full of expensive copper matrix piping! Worth a small fortune at the scrapper, not that anyone would steal them!
Well, that’s recycling covered then.
It’ll be fun for new build cul-de-sacs residents when there are 8 or so houses all facing each other with their blowers going 24/7.
The owner of a semi-detached house in a road near me, in Kew, south-west London, has just installed a large one of these in the small front garden. Watch out for more of this!
On the other hand, the noise our woodburner makes is lovely. Our friends and neighbours often remark upon it when they visit.
It’s so cosy, with all the crackling and popping.
Oh, and it makes the house warm, unlike the boondoggles mentioned above.
And no horrible bills in the post, either!
And you’re using renewable energy, to use the modern slogan. More efficient than Drax power station, quite likely.
So, if they’re too noisy within 1 metre of a neighbour’s door or window they’re going to be fine nearer to your own? If most people wouldn’t do it to their neighbour they won’t do it to themselves,
For the eco-cult, no hardship is too much. These are the people who think taking five hours for a 2h journey is brilliant because their EV is saving the planet, one cobalt child-miner at a time.
wink
For many situations it is clearly the case that if you do away with oil/gas boilers, the eco alternatives do not work on the basis of each property having its own source of heat. There have been some pioneering work on district heating schemes with one going ahead at Swaffham Priors;
https://tp-heatnetworks.org/trailblazer-swaffham-prior-becomes-first-uk-village-to-retrofit-a-renewable-heating-network-into-an-existing-community/
And so yes you can have a replacement for oil[gas boilers but the answer for many is not a simple case of swapping a boiler for a heat pump. District heating schemes do work in various parts of the world but they are not a simple 5 minute fix. They are technically, financially and administratively complex. It will take longer than 2050 to bring in significant district heating schemes across the UK.
And while it may be viable for brand new developments, it might not be practical for most housing areas. There are loads of existing utility pipes and cables buried underground already. Installing a whole load more hot water ones would be fun.
As far as I can ascertain, the smallest heat pumps use 4 kw an hour, and their efficiency depends on longevity,(and outside temperature)don’t turn them on and off, leave them running, Reepham as an example!
The direction of travel for our prosperity, well being and life expectancy is all downhill. —–Welcome to the 21st century where capitalism and standard of living is to be REVERSED.———- All allegedly for the “children and grandchildren” and “saving the planet”. ———Do the children and grandchildren want to be the first generations to be less well of than their parents since the Industrial Revolution that brought us out of the abject misery of dying young after a life of back breaking Labour? Well they have no choice in the matter because that is what is happening. ——–With the seemingly plausible excuse of a climate crisis, which upon closer inspection is not supported by one iota of science.—–Roll up Roll up . get your heat Pumps while stocks last and make sure you stock up on extra pullovers and thicker curtains.