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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7793392" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>Had we begun building those reactors in around 2000 they would be operating by now and we would not be buying in shed-loads of imported gas and using it to make electricity. Import gas to heat people's homes -I have no issue with that at all- if you want heat you have to burn something but using gas to make electricity is incredibly daft but it was done because it was politically expedient to do it. Energy experts were warning the government that the existing reactor fleet had only 20 years of useful life left in about 2005 because I remember hearing about it on the radio. No one listened. you can't assume that gas will always ben dirt cheap. It only reached record lows because the Americans started fracking and suddenly became energy exporters again. The main issue with that is that shipping natural gas is more expensive than a pipeline because you can't get the same density on a ship like you can an oil tanker and not all countries have an LNG terminal either. The UK could have signed a deal with the USA in about 2010 for shipments of LNG stretching decades into the future and everyone would have made money from it but there doesn't seem to be any long term thinking at any level of government these days.</p><p></p><p>Speaking with our plumber the other day who was in to service our boiler, he is spending a lot of time swapping out heat pumps for oil or LPG boilers at the minute. Basically, unless you have a new build house with serious insultation and draft prevention, a heat pump doesn't really work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7793392, member: 54866"] Had we begun building those reactors in around 2000 they would be operating by now and we would not be buying in shed-loads of imported gas and using it to make electricity. Import gas to heat people's homes -I have no issue with that at all- if you want heat you have to burn something but using gas to make electricity is incredibly daft but it was done because it was politically expedient to do it. Energy experts were warning the government that the existing reactor fleet had only 20 years of useful life left in about 2005 because I remember hearing about it on the radio. No one listened. you can't assume that gas will always ben dirt cheap. It only reached record lows because the Americans started fracking and suddenly became energy exporters again. The main issue with that is that shipping natural gas is more expensive than a pipeline because you can't get the same density on a ship like you can an oil tanker and not all countries have an LNG terminal either. The UK could have signed a deal with the USA in about 2010 for shipments of LNG stretching decades into the future and everyone would have made money from it but there doesn't seem to be any long term thinking at any level of government these days. Speaking with our plumber the other day who was in to service our boiler, he is spending a lot of time swapping out heat pumps for oil or LPG boilers at the minute. Basically, unless you have a new build house with serious insultation and draft prevention, a heat pump doesn't really work. [/QUOTE]
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