by Burgerman » 13 Jan 2024, 19:45
Ignoring all that, most of the power to charge them comes from gas, in huge tanks shipped as a super chilled liquid from across the planet. Becaue for virtue signalling reasons we are ignoring our own in the seas and on land... At approx another loss of efficiency. Because it costs energy to cool it, and to regassify it at the other end. And the cost is approx 4x that of using our own...
Thisis because we DESTROYED 195 coal power stations, and allowed the coal mines to flood or be filled in. Again because of virtue signalling nonsense. So we now actualy use more fossil fuel at a lower efficiency than ever before. At much higher cost. In order to pretend that its green.
On top of this, we used to have 32 nuclear power stations. Now all either already shut down or at end of life that we never replaced because - green lobby say bad...
And so instead we have been outsourcing the creation of solar farms (very heavily subsidised) and wind farms, at huhe 100 billion costs to the taxpayer. And these dont work at all on calm days, or at night, or in winter. Guess when you need that power most? Yep, winter.
Then because we no longer have reliable gas supply, or oil, we are trying to push the housholders into heat pumps. Even though the vast majority of energy in this country is powered by that same gas that getting rid of your gas boiler saves... So the reality is that a 20k heat pump system, which also needs much better insulation and bigger radiators etc, doese nothing to reduce C02 and in fact cant be done. Why? Because we are struggling for power even before we start trying to heat the country with electric heat pumps, or electric cars. And that is a less efficient system in regards total energy required than we do now.
Its all a stupidly expensive joke that saves no C02, just moves the stuff to other countries and costs us all a fortune and is bankrupting the country.