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It's a funny old world...
'Insulate britain' activists getting jailed, but now...
"From Kingstanding in Birmingham to Becontree in east London, architects are calling for England’s draughty interwar suburbs to be wrapped in insulation in a national drive to reduce carbon emissions."
“There can be no further delay in embarking on a national programme of home retrofitting, which will transform UK housing, creating warm and cheaper-to-heat homes while bringing health and wider societal benefits,”
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Won't happen of course!
'Insulate britain' activists getting jailed, but now...
"From Kingstanding in Birmingham to Becontree in east London, architects are calling for England’s draughty interwar suburbs to be wrapped in insulation in a national drive to reduce carbon emissions."
“There can be no further delay in embarking on a national programme of home retrofitting, which will transform UK housing, creating warm and cheaper-to-heat homes while bringing health and wider societal benefits,”
Linky
Won't happen of course!
Car charging demand will off set what was once the off-peak during the night and turn it into a peak demand. Rather I see the off-peak becoming when the sun is shinning and the wind is blowing the wind generators round. In other words short notice of surplus supplies, maybe a text message.
They showed and example on either the BBC of C4 yesterday. Cost £30k odd, payback time 20years. Still using a gas boiler I think.
One channel had a gov advisor on. Mentioned using electrical heating and gas when that can't cope on it's own.
If fusion came on line or rather a lot of nuke or wind etc generated power was available they couldn't get it to us due to what the national grid can carry especially to houses. Some more recent builds have 100amp supplies. Due to the way things are set up some have a 100amp fuse fitted but find volts fall out of spec if it's loaded. They need to go multiple phase. At some point I wonder if the street wiring can handle it as more are added. I'm in an older house which curiously has 3 phases. Fairly common in B'ham;
So they see insulation as the answer. Some one costed greening a while ago and it came to billions. 2/3 falling on us. 7.5 of them springs to mind but don't quote me.
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Had External Wall insulation applied to house Last september - works out at £35 per square metre.
Don't worry guys, I'm confident all the new houses being built as I type will be super-insulated and energy-efficient, so they won't need any attention on this for decades ...
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Not really, no.
tbh there was a degree of sarcasm in my post. Yep, I'm sure all the cookie-cutter homes being thrown up at present, oops I mean built with pride and the utmost care, will get 10/10 from the Green Party and co. Go around these homes with a heat detecting thingy and I'm sure they'll pass with flying colours.
Yep, there was a recent case on TV, where Persimmon had completely failed to put any insulation in one estate build, the buyers were having lots of problems with mould growth. How do they get away with such shoddy construction, does no one bother checking?
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It's a shoddy world we're living in nowadays Harry. Builders are all on their mobile phones, on dope or both.
The thing is they can self certify these days, and as building control are unable to be held accountable essentially no one gives a monkey's.
I believe all houses being built in the future should all be passivehaus. Super insulated, with ground source heat pumps.
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How will that translate to the high density 'pods' the future holds in store for our children's children?
Well we need to get out of that mindset.
We should be promoting health and well being in our choice of abode.
Not cramming everyone in like cattle in miniscule pods, which seems to be the plan. George Clark and his amazing spaces...
We should be concentrating on health
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We've stayed here (tinyurl.com/yc7jp53m) many times since it was built. Walking 'round it you'd be amazed at just how minimal impact it has on its environment.
I put an outline plan together of something very similar with a view to creating as sustainable a community as the real world currently allows. The sandal wearing soap dodging planning officer I informally discussed the project with gave me 100+ reasons why they will NEVER allow such a private development, even pointing out the contradictory legal obstacles specifically put in place to prevent such common sense progressive developments.
Off the record he agreed with me in principle & even added a few good ideas of his own . . . !
I put an outline plan together of something very similar with a view to creating as sustainable a community as the real world currently allows. The sandal wearing soap dodging planning officer I informally discussed the project with gave me 100+ reasons why they will NEVER allow such a private development, even pointing out the contradictory legal obstacles specifically put in place to prevent such common sense progressive developments.
Off the record he agreed with me in principle & even added a few good ideas of his own . . . !
