Britain has just 8 days of gas supplies left - Tories

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C_Mababejive wrote: »

A few schools shutting wont even show on the gas consumption radar. Large industrial consumers have been put on notice that they will be cutoff to preserve gas for domestic use. Known as interruptible supplies,they are given notice to turn gas off and usually have alternative fuels.

If all the G rated boilers are replaced with 40Kw combis then lord help us and our fuel bills.

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Combis may suit in the right locations and for the right customer (like yourself) howver they do place an un-necessary strain on the water and gas supply networks in that they need minimum pressures to make them work. They also waste water in runnig off to reach hot water when using tap. water is like liquid gold in some countries and yet we run it down the drain.

a few schools?

most schools across Scotland & northern England were shut yesterday, & many remain shut today
that has got to be 1000+ schools, not using their heating or electricity



we had to have our boiler replaced a few years ago, & its not a combi, its a new back boiler. more efficient than the old one, but maybe not as efficient as a fancy combi. however, were also insulated & double-glazed, which is increasingly becoming the standard condition of housing stock in the UK.




to 'claim' that there are world ending issues with gas storage in the UK is plainly stupid
housing & industry are becoming more efficient with energy usage, & at the same time alternative energy sources are continually coming on stream

how can the effects of the coldest december for 15(?) years be used to extrapolate our future gas needs, even more so when you have to account for the above?
it cant

HammerSmashedFace

Although my previous comments are slightly tongue in cheek, the simple facts remain that everything we use to sustain our current lifestyle is finite and all will be peaking within the next few decades, wind and solar is non viable to scale upwards, only nuclear fusion defys the second law of thermo dynamics.

Having said that it obviously doesn't but it would see through the next few million years quite easily. More to the point the world's economies must get away from the idea that growth= prosperity, it doesn't. It does temporarily whilst the earth has an energy surplus but we are burning that 4 billion years of stored sunlight at an alarming rate, a rate at which some of us and certainly are children are going to see the end of.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Energy,like water,is an essential service and the utilities should be operated by single companies with engineering excellence and expertise,run by the government,fully integrated,for the service and good of the populace.

Enough of your commie filth!

StevieJ

It has started.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/07/gas-rationing-national-grid-factories?CMP=AFCYAH