Boris Johnson is going to ban gas boilers soon, because he says they cause global warming, and he wants them replaced by millions of heat pumps.But our latest campaign is to keep gas central heating, because heat pumps – which are supposed to extract heat from the air or ground – have been described as a ‘con’ and ‘hopeless’, and just seem designed to make Establishment figures very rich.
They were supposed to cost £10,000, but some cost a lot more. The total cost could be about £20,000, because much bigger radiators are needed, floors – including concrete – need to be broken up for under-floor heating pipework, and very expensive insulation is needed. A £5,000 government grant has been described as a ‘joke’.
The figure of £30,000 has even been mentioned. The Establishment has certainly got a huge pay-day coming.
If every home had a heat pump averaging £10,000, the bill would come to a staggering £280 billion. That’s two-and-a-half times more than the HS2 high-speed rail project.
John Humphrys, former compere of TV’s Mastermind, has written a national press article headed ‘My heat pump has left me in the cold’. He says: ’’The sad reality is that I’ve spent a small fortune and have not ended up with a cosy house. To get warm I have to fire up the log-burning stove’.
Many others feel they’ve been conned into getting a ‘hopeless’ heat pump, to ‘save the planet’.
Under the heading ‘Government energy policy owes more to virtue-signalling than sense’ , Peter Crawford writes in the Daily Telegraph that 20% of Britain’s carbon dioxide is accounted for by the heating of buildings.
‘Since our share of global emissions is 1 per cent, eliminating gas boilers would save only 0.2% globally, which would make no difference to the climate.
“The Government’s position on climate change is ill thought through and owes more to virtue-signalling than to considering the science, engineering and especially the costs involved.
‘Rushing to ‘net zero” by 2050 is not justified by Britain’s low carbon dioxide output’.
He says the banning of gas boilers and internal combustion-engined vehicles will eventually require a tripling of grid generating capacity.
“The Government has been deliberately vague about the costs involved, but it will be trillions, not billions of pounds, and the costs will inevitably bear most heavily on the poorest in society”.
‘We should have an interim policy of ‘minimal carbon’, to allow time to develop a sensible energy policy, not an arbitrary target that owes more to the Boris Johnson’s desire to virtue-signal on the world stage’.
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, Roger J Arthur reveals that the National Grid estimates it will cost £3 trillion to decarbonise, which equates for about £100,000 per family in Britain.
‘The Government must face reality and put back the date for phasing out diesel and petrol vehicles to allow time for the innovation needed to provide power when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing’. National grid confirmed his figures.
Climate expert Dr Bjorn Lomborg has slammed the 120 world leaders and 30,000 delegates at the Cop26 climate change conference in Glasgow ‘doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’ – which was crazy.
He is chairman of the Copenhagen Consensus think-tank, and Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and he said ‘Our work found a six-fold increase in “green” research and development (R and D) would be the most effective way to tackle climate change….
‘We need to invest in improving green technologies instead of trying to force ineffective renewable energy, such as electric cars or heat pumps, on people….
‘We are not achieving anything…’
A UN review had revealed ‘the past decade of climate policies was a “lost” decade that had …. achieved nothing… carbon dioxide emissions have mostly kept increasing. This year is likely to set a new record’.
The International Energy Agency estimated that if the world achieved all its ambitious stated electric vehicle targets, then the UN Climate Panel said ‘this would reduce global temperatures by about one ten-thousandth of a degree celsius (that’s 0.0001C) by the end of the century.
‘Because tackling climate change with current technology is almost impossible, climate policy mostly tinkers at the margins, focusing more on bombastic promises and feel-good rhetoric and less on actions that cut emissions.
‘Politicians have been doing this for decades – the same thing over and over again without succeeding – and making even bigger promises.’
Today’s technologies should be improved, ‘rather than erecting inefficient turbines and solar panels…‘ This was the path that would solve climate change.
It would not be solved ‘with more empty promises and implausibly extravagant policies.’
Dr Lomborg made his views known in a Daily Mail feature, and the paper said they were something ‘ that every Cop26 delegate must read.’
Building expert Roger Bisby says of heat pumps: “They’re one of the biggest cons I have seen in the building trade.” He’s been in business for nearly 30 years, and has appeared as an expert on the BBC’s Rogue Traders, and House of Horrors on ITV. Now he runs a building advice website, and he says, “I have been deluged with unhappy customers who were persuaded to instal heat pumps… but who bitterly regretted their decision.”
He said the Government’s offer of £5,000 grants was ‘doomed to fail…. If they worked well, they would not need a government grant to bribe householders to fit them,’
It was also a shock to discover that heat pumps used a lot of electricity: ‘UK families who fit them often find their electric bills double or treble: the noisy heat pumps drive us to distraction; their house is cold; their shower lukewarm…’
He said the heat pump scheme ‘is ill-conceived, too complicated to implement and simply burns it’s way through more of your money.’
Roger gave his views to the Daily Mail, which campaigns for the elderly.
Mike Foster, of trade body Energy and Utilities Alliance, said the limited funding for the scheme “suggests the Chancellor is putting brakes on the Prime Minister’s ‘flight of green fantasy.’
Veteran journalist, Stephen Glover, called the the Boris scheme “an uncosted, madcap eco-revolution”.
He said “The rapid transformation of Boris from a Tory sceptic with his feet firmly on the ground to a climate change fanatic is one of the most amazing political phenomena of modern times.”
“The usual reason given for Mr Johnson’s sudden conversion to being the Che Guevara of climate change and evangelist of higher taxes is the influence of his wife, Carrie, who is something of an eco-zealot. No doubt this is part of the explanation.”
Well-known Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn called the Boris scheme an ‘insane Net Zero vanity project… he proposes to make us colder and poorer, change our diets and cut back on travel, especially foreign holidays.’
He said the ruling party was “in utter disarray, shorn of any moral compass.”
Friends say Boris is “totally besotted” with his much younger wife, Carrie, and his main aim in life is to try to please her. They say it was difficult. But now they’re both eco-fanatics, everything’s fine.
But what happens to senior citizens when Boris’s gas boiler ban comes into effect? Few could afford hopeless heat pumps costing £10,000-to £20,000, or more.
Every winter, there are hypothermia deaths among the hard-up elderly, having to choose between heating or eating. If their gas central heating is banned, the hypothermia death rate would obviously go up. Boris and Carrie could end up the most hated couple in Britain.
No- one is saying they’re heartless. It’s what comes of having old-Etonian millionaires like David Cameron and Boris as prime minister. They live on a different plane, and simply don’t understand the problems of the “little people”.
Summary: At .2%, Britain’s heated building emissions would make ‘no difference’ to global warming. So forget the heat pump scam.
The future is hydrogen – after a bit more R & D (Research and Development).
“Which” magazine says hydrogen should be able to take the place of natural gas, using existing gas pipes. New gas boilers replacing old ones will be ‘hydrogen-ready,’ and it will take a gas-safe installer less than an hour for conversion.
N.B. Everyone seems to want an electric car now. But top Climate expert Dr Bjorn Lomborg says they’re “ineffective”. The problem is, electricity for recharging the batteries comes from diesel generators.
Could they, like heat pumps, be replaced after a few years by hydrogen cars? Is another huge pay-day for the Establishment/Big Business being planned? Be warned.
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