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Going green will put you in the red: Household
energy bills will rise when
homes are forced to switch to
hydrogen heating, energy minister admits

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Posted By: Ribicon, 8/17/2021 12:31:39 AM

Household energy bills are expected to rise amid plans to force homes into using hydrogen heating. The starting gun for a new 'dash for gas' was fired yesterday as the Government launched its strategy for Britain to burn hydrogen and create a £900million industry in the next five years. Energy Strategy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said that creating a UK hydrogen industry would lead to 9,000 jobs by 2030, by which time the sector's economy would be worth £4billion.(Snip)MP for Bassetlaw, Brendan Clarke-Smith, said that it was a 'hard sell' asking Britons to make sacrifices while 'China, Russia etc' are 'carrying on as usual'.

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Isn't this the purpose of Western governments, to extract the maximum amount of money possible from people's pockets and pass it along to others?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Come And Take It 8/17/2021 12:36:04 AM (No. 881945)
As long as China and India are building out coal plants as fast as possible, I see no reason to comply with this greenie crapola.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: snakeoil 8/17/2021 1:07:41 AM (No. 881965)
Hydrogen? Watch the crash of the Hindenberg. The world keeps getting crazier every day.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 8/17/2021 1:15:36 AM (No. 881977)
Hydrogen heating? You can have your very own Hindenburg in your basement. Won't that be fun?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: NotaBene 8/17/2021 1:46:47 AM (No. 881998)
What happened to bringing coals to Newcastle. England has lots of coal, use it!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 8/17/2021 3:28:20 AM (No. 882033)
Hydrogen??? Producing hydrogen requires the use of more energy than it produces. Even electric cars are more energy efficient.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: GreatGreyhounds 8/17/2021 5:10:19 AM (No. 882056)
Hydrogen is a hard gas or liquid to keep contained in piping and storage. Add in explosion mitigation to any facility, and this will make wind or solar look cheap...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: varkdriver 8/17/2021 5:38:05 AM (No. 882061)
Oh, the humanity!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: franq 8/17/2021 6:11:49 AM (No. 882072)
Green™, Eco™, Smart™... all red flags and red numerals on the balance sheet. "Common sense is lacking", as a coworker of mine quips.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Cynical Backstory 8/17/2021 7:06:39 AM (No. 882119)
And everyone thinks hurricanes are devastating. Just wait until the hydrogen in all those gas lines going into houses and buildings cooks off. Miles and miles of devastation and fires. It’ll be just ghastly.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Bur Oak 8/17/2021 7:55:53 AM (No. 882162)
"Green" Britain will look a lot like England in the 1400's.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NamVet70 8/17/2021 10:13:22 AM (No. 882360)
A green ideology never results in good decisions. There is something behind the green agenda but it is not science and it is not an interest in the good of citizens.
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