Climate change policies

[Karl Masks]

Wait, Therese Coffey is not environment secretary?

so that's three things I depend on she's fucked over

 

[8ball]

An interesting piece here from the UN environment representative, saying in her native Denmark there's an app telling people when the renewable share of the energy mix is at its highest. She uses the example of doing the washing then, and I can think of a number of other things that can be timed appropriately.

Filth!

 

[Leafster]

An interesting piece here from the UN environment representative, saying in her native Denmark there's an app telling people when the renewable share of the energy mix is at its highest. She uses the example of doing the washing then, and I can think of a number of other things that can be timed appropriately.

I used to follow a twitter account which would tweet twice a day to suggest the best time to use energy-hungry appliances in the UK to minimise CO2 emissions.

It seems to have disappeared off twitter which would explain why I haven't received any tweets for ages.

 

[stavros]

I used to follow a twitter account which would tweet twice a day to suggest the best time to use energy-hungry appliances in the UK to minimise CO2 emissions.

It seems to have disappeared off twitter which would explain why I haven't received any tweets for ages.

There is the live dashboard, although it's not as simple to interpret as the Danish one sounds.

 

[stavros]

So the National Grid do have a carbon intensity app, breaking the day down into two-hour chunks.

 

[ska invita]

This is a good one, they expect supposedly to generate the same power as ten nuclear plants

Solar panels on all car parks with 80+ spaces

France Requiring Solar Panels to Cover Parking Lots by 2028

The solar panel mandate applies to every parking lot in the country with 80 spots or more.

jalopnik.com

 

[stavros]

That looks a decent enough idea, especially if they sync it with EV charge points for the cars parked there.

Every car park I can think of in the UK is either open air, or multi-storey, with parking on the roof. So I'm not sure how it would work here. We don't tend to have those roofs.

 

[ska invita]

That looks a decent enough idea, especially if they sync it with EV charge points for the cars parked there.

Every car park I can think in the UK is either open air, or multi-storey, with parking on the roof. So I'm not sure how it would work here. We don't tend to have those roofs.

Could build roofs though!

 

[Leafster]

Could build roofs though!

They wouldn't even have to be 'proper' roofs. There are several companies already operating in the UK which will construct solar canopies for parking areas.

Here's one: Commercial EV Charging & Solar Carports | Renewable Energy For Businesses - Solarsense

 

[Leafster]

On the subject of installing solar on other under used spaces, I've never understood why the planning rules don't mandate that all new builds (both residential and commercial) have to have at least some solar panels on the roofs.

 

[Artaxerxes]

On the subject of installing solar on other under used spaces, I've never understood why the planning rules don't mandate that all new builds (both residential and commercial) have to have at least some solar panels on the roofs.

Government isn’t interested in governing and builders don’t want to spend money

 

[stavros]

On the subject of installing solar on other under used spaces, I've never understood why the planning rules don't mandate that all new builds (both residential and commercial) have to have at least some solar panels on the roofs.

Alongside mandated and good quality insulation. Not the flammable stuff.

 

[DotCommunist]

On the subject of installing solar on other under used spaces, I've never understood why the planning rules don't mandate that all new builds (both residential and commercial) have to have at least some solar panels on the roofs.

In france all carparks over a certain size will now have to have solar panels .

 

[platinumsage]

On the subject of installing solar on other under used spaces, I've never understood why the planning rules don't mandate that all new builds (both residential and commercial) have to have at least some solar panels on the roofs.

That would make houses more expensive and case for solar panels in the UK isn't that strong - they provide power during the summer when we need it least (not much aircon), and fuck all in the winter when we need it most on calm days. We'd probably be better off paying for new solar farms in Morocco and importing the leccy via new undersea cables.

 

[stavros]

I'd have thought solar panels on retailers, especially food retailers, would make sense. They have their internal lights on throughout the day, and with supermarkets the fridges and freezers run 24/7.

 

[Signal 11]

I'd have thought solar panels on retailers, especially food retailers, would make sense.

Yes, and on houses. The troll above you is full of shit - on ignore so I'm not replying to them. I get plenty of usable power from mine in the winter. For the three worst months it doesn't match what I use, but it would be stupid to give up the rest because of that. They generate more than I use over the year.

 

[Rob Ray]

Quite a blunt piece from a disgruntled finance sector bod in the FT today about the industry's incoherent virtue-signalling about "reaching net zero" As they note:

Permanent capital such as equity cannot be withdrawn, it only changes hands. Real world impact: zero. And with traded asset classes, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change’s demand for total industry alignment is a fallacy. If I’ve sold my oil shares, the buyer of them is now misaligned.

 

[WouldBe]

On the subject of installing solar on other under used spaces, I've never understood why the planning rules don't mandate that all new builds (both residential and commercial) have to have at least some solar panels on the roofs.

Something that should have been done when Cameron changed the planning rules.

 

[WouldBe]

That would make houses more expensive

It would add a few thousand which would be spread over the life of the mortgage which would workout as peanuts. Also has the advantage of reducing household bills.

 

[Signal 11]

New geoengineering grift. Trying to sell "cooling credits" for releasing sulphur dioxide into the upper atmosphere.

A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate

Make Sunsets is already attempting to earn revenue for geoengineering, a move likely to provoke widespread criticism.

www.technologyreview.com

 

[Signal 11]

Government announces Passivhaus standards to be adopted in Scotland

ALL newly built homes in Scotland will need to conform to an innovative green building standard championed by a Labour MSP, under plans announced by the Scottish Government.
[...]
The Passivhaus standards create ultra-low energy homes which aim to minimise the need to heat and cool buildings.
[...]
Net Zero Minister Patrick Harvie said the Scottish Government would fast-track the process of adopting the standards in law by using secondary legislation and bypassing the lengthy process of taking a member's bill through Holyrood.

 

[stavros]

I saw a TV advert from the government yesterday, advising us on how we can save energy. I seem to remember that Truss et al dismissed this idea as being "nanny state-ish", so Sunak must now must be quite high on her communist scale now.

 

[WouldBe]

Government announces Passivhaus standards to be adopted in Scotland

About time. Should be everywhere.

 

[stavros]

France introduces law compelling fast food outlets to give proper plates and cutlery, rather than the single-use stuff.

 

[8ball]

France introduces law compelling fast food outlets to give proper plates and cutlery, rather than the single-use stuff.

Might be a good climate change policy for Greece to adopt the opposite law.

 

[DotCommunist]

France introduces law compelling fast food outlets to give proper plates and cutlery, rather than the single-use stuff.

finally France catches up with Wimpy.

 

[Koknbul]

I'd have to agree with George' view on climate change, we are just messing with nature too much & in the bigger picture it won't matter long term, humans can't save the planet, better we focus in on saving ourselves instead!

 

[editor]

Either make a point and explain the video or stop posting.

 

[stavros]

France introduces law compelling fast food outlets to give proper plates and cutlery, rather than the single-use stuff.

And the ever Francophilic British government are bringing in a similar law in October, copying in England what's already in place in Wales and Scotland.

 

[Koknbul]

Either make a point and explain the video or stop posting.

I have had concerns about the mass movement of iron ore & how it destabilizes the planets orbit & it means nothing.

Just like the measurements we take today about climate change, It means nothing.

We are humans, devouring this organic material, it is what we do best.