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Jul 6th, 2024, 20:41 | #6691 | |
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Jul 6th, 2024, 22:32 | #6692 |
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With the main event of this past week, I cannot see that happening anytime soon.
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The last fill up returned 27mpg (nearly 28mpg but i don't recall the exact figure) for normal use ( a few miles to a nearby forest for the dogs and back) but that was the last tankful with any of the intermittent problems present. A recent long run only returned 26mpg but that was with at least one problem present. However, i have now got to the bottom of that problem so my next fill will give an indication if things are improving. The one after that should give a more definitive figure. I suspect i still have one minor problem that should be sorted in the next couple of days before my next fill. Most of the problems i've had with it have been down to incomplete or missed servicing although one was down to a failed new component. Are you thinking of buying one?
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The only Net Zero result that will be achieved will be financial, resulting in many bankruptcies as people are forced to take on schemes that have had little or no thought given to the costs and other problems associated with them.
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Also if all houses are pulling heat from outside on cold days, suddenly those cold days will become freezing days so less heat is available for those heat pumps to extract - it's an ever decreasing circle. It's all down to the laws of physics and to paraphrase the Starship Enterprise character, you cannot change the laws of physics. There are of course other limiting factors such as the National Grid isn't capable of providing the extra load of heat pumps and just to add fuel to that particular fire (every pun intended!) not all of our electricity is renewable yet so we are still reliant on fossil fuel for our electricity.
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Perhaps we don’t want to go too far on a tangent discussing the minutiae of heat pump performance, but Dave is pretty well correct about this issue. The thermodynamic gains for heat pumps at low temperatures (around freezing) are tiny, it is also true that generally electricity costs about 4 times the price of natural gas in the UK. Dave is also correct that taking heat out of the air (or equally the ground or a water source) will have an effect on the environment: if 67,000,000 people try to do it simultaneously that effect will be very significant.
We live on an island surrounded by gas and oil, but politically we seem to have made a decision to not use it. Instead we seem to have decided to wear the net-zero hair shirt: drive only electric vehicles, use only electricity in our homes and make industry uncompetitive. If we lived on a scarcely populated place that could grow its own food and manufacture what it needs that plan might work, but trying to support the lives of 67,000,000 folk (growing by about a million per year) on a small group of islands is madness. I suspect we will do some pretty daft things to force us Brits into net-zero such as punitive taxation on fossil fuels and completely banning IC vehicles. So, steering this tangent back to where we came from: expect lots more perfectly good vehicles (including the classic cars we like so much) to be scrapped well before their time. Just the musings of a grumpy chap with a beard.
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Nutshell , Alan!🤨
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Whilst carefully avoiding politics Andrew, it concerns me that 31% of the electorate has committed our nation to madness.
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