Matt wrote:
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:27:54 -0000, "Doctor Drivel"
wrote:

No, you are correct. 5 years ago laughed at peopel who eco things and
bopasted they virtually no insulation and oil bills were low. How time
schange quickly. 5 years ago if you said gas would rise 25% in one swoop
they would have locked you up. Energy will "never" get cheaper.

It will, given enough time. For instance when the
Iranians/Chinese/Indians start exporting their miniature nuclear
reactor technology giving an all in one solution that never needs
refueling for 100 years, yet provides 40 litres a minute of hot water
at delta T 55 deg C and 500kW output for the radiators, you'll be able
to strip out all that expensive insulation and leave the windows open
all year round.

Hacksaws will have to be banned though - just in case anyone decides
to replumb the cooling circuit.


Alt energies keep getting cheaper and cheaper per watt as the
technology improves. At some point they will become cheaper than oil
and gas... and keep getting cheaper. Our future is one of plantiful
energy at low cost. How long it wll take to get there no-one knows, and
we probably will have to go through a period of steep costs first. I
suggest this is a more realistic long term forecast than the popular
never-have-it-so-good-again predictions.


NT