"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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No neither have I but the thing is this, if they are not going to let
people get onto gas, they will do just what you see in other countries.
Use cylinders of gas instead.

In theory, there is no real reason for the ban, as for the
foreseeable future they have to use Gas to generate power. It will
need a love affair with nuclear, and better power storage systems to
allow renewable to work well when there is a peak demand. All
electrical heating is second hand ie inefficient energy, we can only
use it if we can make making it far more efficient. There has been no
real development of electrical heating since the very early days of
electricity. Itt still is put current through a resistor and the
device gives off heat. Its not terribly efficient. I do not see the
LED Equivelent of lights for heat anywhere, after all.

I think its a bit soon to say we shall not use gas. As I say I took the
choice not to have gas, but I do not have any central heating
installed other than storage heaters, but they do have drawbacks of
time issues. IE they use cheaper electricity, but try to store the
heat, but are not that efficient, and often when it gets cold its when
the heat store is getting depleted before the next cheap rate time so
one gets either an override which is not really a good way to do it,
or use those oil filled heaters, which are better to take up the slack
in the evenings.



No when I heard this last night I almost laughed myself silly.

Many power stations seem to be using something like wood chips instead
of coal at the moment.

**** all do.

The biggest one inthen UK does.

Still **** all of the total power generators in the UK and europe.