By Paul Homewood
Harrabin is still living in his little dream world!
Many people in Britain remain unprepared for the revolution in home heating that the country faces in the next ten to 15 years, a report from MPs has said.
MPs on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee said the government’s approach to decarbonising home heating lacked clear direction.
Current policies are also not on the scale required, they said.
However, the report rejected hydrogen as a solution for greener home heating.
The committee’s chairman, Darren Jones, said replacing gas boilers, the major source of pollution from homes, was "a huge task and we are not making near enough progress".
The report urges the government to do more to explain to the public the changes they will be facing, including the potential costs and benefits.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60235709
The public don’t need the “benefits” explaining to them, because there are not any. And finally they are gradually becoming aware that the alternatives will cost them an absolute fortune.
The government knows full well that a ban on gas boilers would be political suicide, so is quite happy kicking the can down the road, just the same as its predecessors did.
But what is significant in this latest report is the admission that hydrogen is not the answer:
However, the cross-party committee poured cold water on suggestions that hydrogen could play a major role in home heating.
Mr Jones told BBC News: “We were not convinced that hydrogen was proven to be a front-running, viable technology.
"I understand why trades unions are enthusiastic about hydrogen because it preserves jobs – but many workers will need to transition to heat pumps.
Concerns around hydrogen included “supply, distribution, changes to the network, changes in the home with safety work around pipes and valves – so many reasons we’re not convinced,” he said.
As some of us have been pointing out for a long while, to convert the gas network to hydrogen will cost tens of billions, money which the government does not have.
And blue hydrogen, the only scale option in the foreseeable future, is extremely expensive to produce and still causes emissions of CO2.
Harrabin is obviously getting very frustrated that most of the public don’t give two hoots for his climate agenda, not when it costs them tens of thousands anyway.
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