Sunday, Aug 08, 2010
+£15,000 on a new home
The Independent: All new homes to run on green power by 2016
I'm sure both red and blue wings of the homeowners' party can agree heartily with this one, regardless of their views on sustainable energy. Stopping house prices falling is the overriding economic imperative, and making new houses 10% more expensive so that fewer get built is a good start.
Posted by monty032 @ 09:46 AM (658 views) Add Comment
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1. quiet guy said...
The new tax cometh ...
I'm all for good building design but where we are going to get the rare earths required for all these 'green' machines like electric cell cars, efficient dynamos for wind farms and so on.
Our government should be planning on building reliable power sources (preferably nuclear) instead of some tree-hugging hippy fantasy. I daresay in another 50 years, the economics of using renewable energy will be more favourable but we're committing huge sums of money to government vanity projects that don't make economic sense.
2. enuii said...
That £15000 being privately borrowed money (over 25 years or more with remortgages etc) that will be directly funneled into local/national government or the developers pockets, sounds fine at first glance but I suspect we will end up with unreliable, half baked, low quality poorly engineered schemes built with the lowest up-front cost that will ultimately become white elephants faster than a 1960's tower block when the money runs out to maintain them.
Then again this could be the next bubble investment opportunity to make a fast buck on.
3. Eternal Sceptic said...
A chance to accomplish all this, and have a proven technology, was wasted during the oil crunch of the 70's. To go green now is viciously expensive, and the reliability of existing systems is as yet unproven. Also the rare earths to make the components are in increasingly short supply. The cost of the energy storage system is approximately half the cost of the generating system, and with optimum usage still requires replacement after 20 years.Furthermore knowledge is required to operate the system and it would require ongoing maintainance.
A good idea in principle, but the application would become a nightmare for the individual.
A short term solution would be to have a stepped energy tariff for households incrementing in 10 amp intervals with a healthy price increase for every 10 amps extra drawn. That extra charge could be used to grant-aid the installation of renewable energy systems, not be skanked off as revenue for the power companies or taken as a tax by the government.
4. uncle tom said...
I truly believe that 'zero carbon' is the vacuuous fad of yesterday, and that the new govt is making a very big mistake in signing up to the concept without an obvious escape route...
..this could be the coalition's first substantive error..
5. Rich Kighley said...
Yes, it is official. We're going back to mud huts and dung burning....
6. Sj032 said...
All new houses to run on green power by 2016. Look over there people; it's a flying pig