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Solar panels have been on houses for a long time, maybe thirty five years?
However, it is the new battery tech, that brings this system to fruition.Michael, I find it sad to see you periodically swayed by political propaganda. “Net Zero by Whenever” is merely political posturing, as are the scare stories opposing it. Deindustrialisation is nothing new, it started forty years ago under Thatcher, and has persisted under governments of all complexions ever since. Study practicalities first (directly from the numbers, and from people and organisations that actually do stuff), and only read political commentary afterwards; that way, you’ll be well placed to spot the politicised distortions, deceptions, distractions and misdirections.
“If voting could change anything it’d be made illegal”. It’s not quite that bad, at least we can kick out one lot and get in another, but they lie more than not, and then we’re stuck with the winning bunch for five years. That’s what’s happened with this lot. The Conservatives did a lot of very unconservative things, like personal profiteering in the pandemic, encouraging drunken fascists to the Cenotaph where they pelted the police with bottles, crashing the economy under Truss, tripling immigration, and letting the water companies fill our rivers with effluent. So people voted for “the other side” and soon discovered they’d been deceived, tricked into genocide and war, hence this government’s massive unpopularity.
Democracy itself needs an overhaul; everything else is just tinkering around the edges. Just for a start, we need a way to kick out a government quickly when it turns out they lied to get elected.
The first houses in the UK to be fitted with solar panels were part of the “Solar Park” project in Woking, Surrey, in 1986. These were social housing units, demonstrating the potential of solar energy for both electricity and hot water.
Clark
Quote “Democracy itself needs an overhaul; everything else is just tinkering around the edges. Just for a start, we need a way to kick out a government quickly when it turns out they lied to get elected.”Clark, one hundred percent agree.
I am not a complete dinosaur, although on Tuesday when I was with my conservation volunteering group, we were making sweet chestnut post and rail fences, one of the volunteers ( I think he has a PhD in botany), had a very colourful hat. I called out is that your gay hat Colin?
He came over and put his hand on my shoulder, saying oh, dear, I don’t think we will ever get you politically correct Michael, at least not until you are dead.
It seems most of our volunteers are incredibly highly educated, I class myself as the least educated, anyway the higher educated ones, mostly voted Labour.
Maybe the political correctness comes from working in large organisations?
I have spent most of my life being self employed.
Most of them are fully signed up to believing hook line and sinker that there is likely to be a climate crisis.
Yet they happily jet off on holiday to the Caribbean.
Many cycle to the volunteering, some even go on cycling holidays.
I think I have just demonstrated that cognitive dissonance is rife.Most people do not want a lower standard of living.
I expect that is true anywhere in the world
