Energy bills to hit £5,000 a year by 2020

julieq

We could all sleep together to stay warm. Could be fun too.

Antispam

Are you a hippy:)

Free love.....

julieq wrote: »

We could all sleep together to stay warm. Could be fun too.

Masomnia

Antispam wrote: »

Free love.....

Very MSE!!!

Antispam

But of course it should be in freebie forum

Masomnia wrote: »

Very MSE!!!

Gorgeous_George

The answer is Nuclear. Now, what was the question?

For these experts to be right, inflation will need to be massive. Energy bills will cost about the same number of days work as they do now. Mine's about 1 day per month at work to pay for gas/electric and another half-day to pay for the petrol for my car.

GG

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Gorgeous_George wrote: »

The answer is Nuclear. Now, what was the question?

In the short term you may well be right, however you can't knock up a nuclear power station in a couple of years, I think it takes around a decade at least to build and get up and running, we have quite a shortfall problem coming in the next 5 years.

However long term, we have to get fusion to work, it's the only way we can possibly get grid level energy. All the other alternative solutions, wind, solar, wave, biofuels etc.. all work on the small scale, but are hopelessly inadequate for the world's current and future needs.

At the moment if they can get the next prototype fusion reactor (ITER) up and running according to the theoretic calculations, there may be a silver lining to this ominously big cloud on our horizon, but even if it does work, we are still 3 decades + away from a commercial grid level reactor.

I'm not overstating the fact that this is mankind's only hope of continuing with the lifestyle on the scale we have become accustomed to since the start of the oil age, if we fail, the future will be bleak.

julieq

Or we could all insulate our homes, drive less, and burn back issues of the Daily Express to keep warm?

I somehow doubt the future of mankind will be entirely determined by the prognostications of the "experts from Uswitch" who provided the headline of the Daily Express yesterday...:rotfl:

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julieq wrote: »

I somehow doubt the future of mankind will be entirely determined by the prognostications of the "experts from Uswitch" who provided the headline of the Daily Express yesterday...:rotfl:

Of course you are correct, it will however be determined on the facts that I given in my previous post. I admit the 'thisismoney' (I thought it was the Daily Mail by the way), do like to go for a sensationalist headline.