They make economic sense if you have to upgrade to a new gas boiler (from an old gas boiler) or even worse, a oil-based boiler, but only under BUS conditions.
In other countries, though, where they are widespread, they are cheaper to both install and run than gas boilers.
There’s an element of cost and an element of reducing our footprint here.
Be that as it may we are going for a 10 kW south-facing array and 24 kWh battery so I’m hoping we can do the heating on our own juice in all but a couple of months. At least if my calculations hold.
But I’m sending four kids into the world. I’d like to do my bit to avoid making it worse for them, so it’s ok if it all together ends up costing over the next 5-6 years.
Going through an ASHP, solar and battery install in our house at the minute. Tbf, the £7,500 BUS grant is pretty generous and brings a heat pump conversion (in a modern house) into same price range as a new boiler.
But do be mindful that he can only spend 90 days/year in the U.K. I guess the rest he’ll spend on his yacht. Oh no.
If true (I mean, it’s GB News, so who knows?) the location where he was seized matters enormously. On the US embassy, driven in a blue license plate car, onto a US base with US jurisdiction? Entirely within the rights of the US, as per long standing diplomatic norms and U.K./US treaty.
I always prefer eating money.
Why do you think the tech bros are so busy investing ? When you don’t even need the other people to maintain your luxury, they can just die off and leave the planet to them. Clean, empty, serviced by “I have no mouth and I must scream” AI robots and rewilding. Paradise for them and death for the rest of us. The stench of death will only last 10 years and then the robots can clean up.
Gambling is a terrible addiction. We should treat users and work to eradicate suppliers. Why is it so hard for humans to improve their own condition?!
Broadly disagree but agree about a specific element.
I think there’s plenty of justice between two people of give or take equal wealth.
Money, unfortunately, does help one prepare a defense or attack better than those without money. So in that sense, justice is very unevenly served between parties of unequal wealth.