One immense problem with heat pumps is the cost. Subsidies offered by the government are derisory. People need to pay around as much as they would pay for a replacement boiler in order to motivate them to change. In addition, many homes would need an upgrade to their existing radiators, adding to both cost and upheaval.
Labour's abandon of its commitment to investing in green technologies, underlines the problem with our electoral system with General Elections no more than 5 years apart, where our political parties will usually promise policies that bring benefits to voters within 5 years to help them get re-elected. The core problem is that the UK does not generate sufficient wealth (GDP) to bring-in enough tax revenue to pay for all our demands. With the 2050 deadline to stop the emissions of fossil carbon, the UK must take a longer view than 5 years, so perhaps an agreement of all parties of what needs to done, should be written into law so that it cannot be changed?
Considering the UK's expertise in clean energy technologies, we should give more support to UK industries to manufacture equipment to generate clean energy, rather than leaving it to foreign suppliers to sell it to us, as this would also provide a new opportunity to export the equipment, increasing our GDP which is urgently needed.
One immense problem with heat pumps is the cost. Subsidies offered by the government are derisory. People need to pay around as much as they would pay for a replacement boiler in order to motivate them to change. In addition, many homes would need an upgrade to their existing radiators, adding to both cost and upheaval.
Labour's abandon of its commitment to investing in green technologies, underlines the problem with our electoral system with General Elections no more than 5 years apart, where our political parties will usually promise policies that bring benefits to voters within 5 years to help them get re-elected. The core problem is that the UK does not generate sufficient wealth (GDP) to bring-in enough tax revenue to pay for all our demands. With the 2050 deadline to stop the emissions of fossil carbon, the UK must take a longer view than 5 years, so perhaps an agreement of all parties of what needs to done, should be written into law so that it cannot be changed?
Considering the UK's expertise in clean energy technologies, we should give more support to UK industries to manufacture equipment to generate clean energy, rather than leaving it to foreign suppliers to sell it to us, as this would also provide a new opportunity to export the equipment, increasing our GDP which is urgently needed.