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  On 1/11/2025 at 3:40 PM, Skip997 said:

You’re absolutely spot on, we can no longer make any difference as individuals. The whole system has to change, in fact it has to collapse and be rebuilt in a properly sustainable and equitable way. Ain’t going to happen, those in control are too interested in money 

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In fact it has to collapse and be rebuilt...

 

Which would mean chaos and carnage in the interim.

 

You're right that won't happen - hopefully

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  On 1/11/2025 at 3:58 PM, Crazyfool01 said:

damn so my new hybrid car makes no difference .... im asking for a refund 

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Giving up the car would make more difference!  I'm all for positive changes but I don't think we should be told what they should be.  For example, I'm not talking about you, it's great having an electric or hybrid car but if you go on 3 holidays by plane per year, that negates any positive effect so banning new petrol/diesel vehicles is stupid. 

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  On 1/11/2025 at 6:09 PM, stuie said:

 

Giving up the car would make more difference!  I'm all for positive changes but I don't think we should be told what they should be.  For example, I'm not talking about you, it's great having an electric or hybrid car but if you go on 3 holidays by plane per year, that negates any positive effect so banning new petrol/diesel vehicles is stupid. 

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last flight was approx 10 years ago ..... thought I was doing ok until someone put up a calculator thing on here somewhere .. the way I see it is if I try to improve in small steps ... looking at insulating and home improvements next . everyone can take small steps .... some things are much harder though 

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  On 1/11/2025 at 4:24 PM, steviewevie said:

So...nothing we can do then.

Think I'll open a beer and get netflix on.

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But that's pretty good as far as your carbon footprint is concerned, especially if it's a local beer. Better than driving across the country to a rally.

 

  On 1/11/2025 at 3:58 PM, Crazyfool01 said:

damn so my new hybrid car makes no difference .... im asking for a refund 

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"New car" is where the plan fails somewhat. Sure, it emits less, but the whole production of it has a carbon footprint. In some cases I'm sure you'd be better off getting a small secondhand petrol car.

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  On 1/11/2025 at 6:27 PM, GhostOfMaurice said:

 

But that's pretty good as far as your carbon footprint is concerned, especially if it's a local beer. Better than driving across the country to a rally.

 

 

"New car" is where the plan fails somewhat. Sure, it emits less, but the whole production of it has a carbon footprint. In some cases I'm sure you'd be better off getting a small secondhand petrol car.

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new to me .... its 3 years old and my old one did 20 years 

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  On 1/11/2025 at 6:40 PM, steviewevie said:

but not as good as watching nothing in the dark and drinking my own piss?

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Well if you don't want to make an effort....

 

The best you can do is save yourself some money by being more energy efficient. At least you'll see some benefits from a personal standpoint.

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  On 1/11/2025 at 6:09 PM, stuie said:

 

Giving up the car would make more difference!  I'm all for positive changes but I don't think we should be told what they should be.  For example, I'm not talking about you, it's great having an electric or hybrid car but if you go on 3 holidays by plane per year, that negates any positive effect so banning new petrol/diesel vehicles is stupid. 

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It’s tricky. If diesel was made unavailable I be completely f**ked, wouldn’t be able to move my home and transport 

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  On 1/11/2025 at 8:41 PM, Skip997 said:

It’s tricky. If diesel was made unavailable I be completely f**ked, wouldn’t be able to move my home and transport 

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Yeah, me too.  My car and my camper would be resigned to the scrap heap.  At the same time, no limits on air miles so people could fly several times a month. Or have a private plane. Or have 6 children. 

 

Can we choose how to use our CO2 emissions? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  On 1/12/2025 at 9:11 AM, lost said:

I'm like that with a heat pump. I know its the coldest its been for 15 years but people are reporting they can't get the house above 15c - 18c.

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We live in a flat, we cannot make a heat pump work as  a viable option, not just cos it is an old building solid walls and the front of the building is not allowed to have windows changed so are all single glazed as are windows in all listed buildings. You can get secondary but the specifications are so tight they are purpose built windows and cost so much few can afford it.

We have looked at our options and the only viable one is an electric combi boiler which will be around £1500 to buy and £500 to fit. We can afford that but until the electric price is uncoupled from the gas price it will make our costs so high we would struggle to afford to run it. (They use similar kwh to gas but electric is far more expensive per kwh than gas).

If the government wants people to change then they need to make changes themselves to enable people to change. Heat pumps are not viable for 30% or more of UK homes (governments own numbers). So what are people supposed to do?

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  On 1/12/2025 at 9:11 AM, lost said:

I'm like that with a heat pump. I know its the coldest its been for 15 years but people are reporting they can't get the house above 15c - 18c.

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Are we/they just doing something wrong somehow?

I lived in a house in New Zealand 15 years ago that had a heat pump. In Queenstown, a ski resort, so very cold in the winter. And it worked fine from what I can remember. You'd hope things would've improved quite a bit in 15 years, too

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  On 1/13/2025 at 9:20 AM, steviewevie said:

well we have gas central heating and it barely ever reaches the heady heights of 18C in the winter.

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Must be a very leaky house - or a poor system. Do your rads get hot?

 

One of the cheapest and most effective things you can do is loft insulation.

 

I've steadily made improvements over the years (1980s 3 bed semi)

 

Better loft insulation (but not perfect because I've boarded out the central third for storage space)

Fitted some insulation to the loft hatch last year

Double glazing was done about 15yrs ago

Blocked up the air bricks.

Just had new front/back doors to replace the original poorly sealed single glazed doors.

 

I've had the heating on all day recently (off overnight). Thermostat set to 19.5C. My smart meter tells me last week cost me £23.60 - the highest of the winter so far. In the cold weather last week the house cooled to a little under 16C overnight

 

To replace the GCH with ASHP I'd need to replace the pipework to the rads with larger diameter because I have microbore pipes at the minute which won't work well for a high flow system

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  On 1/13/2025 at 10:26 AM, kerplunk said:

 

 

Must be a very leaky house - or a poor system. Do your rads get hot?

 

One of the cheapest and most effective things you can do is loft insulation.

 

I've steadily made improvements over the years (1980s 3 bed semi)

 

Better loft insulation (but not perfect because I've boarded out the central third for storage space)

Fitted some insulation to the loft hatch last year

Double glazing was done about 15yrs ago

Blocked up the air bricks.

Just had new front/back doors to replace the original poorly sealed single glazed doors.

 

I've had the heating on all day recently (off overnight). Thermostat set to 19.5C. My smart meter tells me last week cost me £23.60 - the highest of the winter so far. In the cold weather last week the house cooled to a little under 16C overnight

 

To replace the GCH with ASHP I'd need to replace the pipework to the rads with larger diameter because I have microbore pipes at the minute which won't work well for a high flow system

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Well the fact I have thermostat set to max 17C is probably part of the reason, although didn't get above 16 the last week during the cold snap. Yes, have a leaky house, old original sash windows at front, crap old wooden double glazing at back, floorboards with big gaps, gaps around doors, loft insulation probably needs replacing but is under boarding and a load of crap...although all that crap has got to help. It is a cold house though, but we're all kind of used to it...and the missus who feels the cold more wears about a hundred layers. We don't have a smart meter, holding out...but we are on ecotricty so basically saving the planet.

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