No real alternatives to fossil fuels ..

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I can recall the OPEC caper way back
people were issued with petrol ration coupons

they were never used
 
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Don't tell me, there was an alternative to those fossil fuels.

no it was not

it was in reaction to a possible oil crisis which would have meant a fuel shortage

Opec were threatening to limit oil supplies

similar caper ( may be ) to the current gas supply issue from Russia ??
 
What countries? They are all skint.

countries who s economy is based on the export of fossil fuels

oil ?? Will require financial support
?

the west are switching to alternatives apparently so won’t require there oil ???
 
countries who s economy is based on the export of fossil fuels

oil ?? Will require financial support
?

the west are switching to alternatives apparently so won’t require there oil ???
So, there's no alternative to fossil fuels because you're scared of Russia and Norway, and maybe the Scots.
 
So, there's no alternative to fossil fuels because you're scared of Russia and Norway, and maybe the Scots.

wtf are you on about :confused::confused:

I
Am merely pointing out a potential consequence

take it or leave Transam gives not a jot one way or the other ;)

Scots well good point
 
Far too inefficient for heavy charge currents. Phones do not demand too much charge current so if 50% of that is wasted, it is no big deal, but (even supposing it would work) waste 50% of several Kw and it becomes a major problem - not to mention the problem of heating due to eddy currents in the vehicles metalwork.
The winking emoji at the end of my post was an indication I wasn't being 100% serious ;)
 
Imo this caper with gas boilers will get watered down prior to 2035

when reality actually clicks in

any one thinking about installing ashp had better make sure they have water tight indemnity insurance
 
I've been looking at the National Grid document mentioned earlier.

This bit is interesting:

"Statistically the first car in a family does around 37 miles a day on average and any second car covers around 11 miles daily. Understandably people don’t however buy for their average journeys, they buy for the longest ones they do. In reality, when we take longer trips, most of us already do stop for 15 to 20 minutes at a service station to grab a drink and perhaps head to the loo or fill up on petrol or diesel. That would be all the time it takes to power up your EV via the new range of ultra-rapid chargers that are already available. This is why National Grid has proposed the optimum locations for adequate grid capacity to enable others to provide ultra-fast chargers, ensuring that nobody on the strategic road network (motorways and principle dual carriageways) is further than 50 driven miles from ultra-rapid charging. This will give drivers consistency, continuity and therefore confidence that their first or only car can be electric."
 
Not much if they're charging overnight. The average daily milage is 20. Assuming a good but not epic efficiency EV that's 5-6kWh each. Assuming 8pm to 6am then that's 0.5kW, or two TVs. The grid is normally very underused overnight.

How many houses need to be upgraded to run a kettle? (6 X daily average milage?)

Those look like the numbers given by the National Grid. They're optimistic, full of 'plans' - wouldn't trust much of what they say. Using averages soon fails, it depends what you're trying to work out

7300 miles per year is very low - I haven't ever done as few as that before Covid.
"New diesel cars cover an average of 12,496 miles in each of their first three years." I found.
That's 40 miles per day, weekdays, for which my size of car needs 20kWh per day, because I don't drive round a test track getting the maximum economy.

Say I'm one of the third or so British households with more than one car and like the majority I have only one offstreet space for charging a car. So I want the effin thing charged in 2-3 hours so the household can swap them round and go to bed today. Now you can't expect me to have to charge it multiple times per week like that.
It's got a 90kWh battery. I need to be able to charge it to the max in case ....
Realistically I need 75 kWh in 2 hrs, fairly often.
So I want a 40kW charger or my virility will be impugned.
I have a 60A panel - I'm going to need three of those.

And so will all the other houses in the square whose owners won't want to be undersized.
That's not going to happen. So somebody run along and tell that silly little Swedish Doom Goblin where to naff orf.
 
Those look like the numbers given by the National Grid. They're optimistic, full of 'plans' - wouldn't trust much of what they say.

Oh, have you got better, more reliable figures?

Do, please, show us what they are, and how you worked them out.

You wouldn't want people to say your assertions aren't trustworthy, or that you are throwing unsubstantated smears around with no basis in fact.
 
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