Would gas cookers become obsolete?

anon_ymous

I've just been looking at this:
http://www.goodenergy.co.uk/our-purpose

and it shows that the government wants us to not use fossil fuels by 2035 and to use 100% renewable energy by 2050

When this happens, wouldn't all the gas cookers and gas boilers then become obsolete? - Forcing everyone to use electricity only?

HappyMJ

Probably...but that's 38 years away. The gas cooker will probably be replaced by a new one by then.

anon_ymous

HappyMJ wrote: »

Probably...but that's 38 years away. The gas cooker will probably be replaced by a new one by then.

23 actually, if you see that they don't want us using fossil fuels by 2035 but yeah I suppose. Hopefully they'll make electric cookers that actually work as good as gas ones

HappyMJ

waqasahmed wrote: »

23 actually, if you see that they don't want us using fossil fuels by 2035 but yeah I suppose. Hopefully they'll make electric cookers that actually work as good as gas ones

It's the petrol you should really worry about. All electric cars....

Anyway if you read into it it's for electricity generation only.

anon_ymous

HappyMJ wrote: »

It's the petrol you should really worry about. All electric cars....

Anyway if you read into it it's for electricity generation only.

I dont *mind* electric cars tbf, if they can go to a good speed ie: do more than 120Mph (though Id be likely to do 70 or 80 max)

Some of them are pretty good, though pricey!

So Im guessing you'd still be able to heat your home with gas if you wanted to then

penrhyn

In what world are electric cars pretty good? Range of less than 100 miles and 8 hours to charge the battery.
Come back when they are running off hydrogen fuel cells.

anon_ymous

penrhyn wrote: »

In what world are electric cars pretty good? Range of less than 100 miles and 8 hours to charge the battery.
Come back when they are running off hydrogen fuel cells.

Id say they're pretty good considering they're a relatively new thing. You can't expect them to work exactly like a diesel or petrol car, cost the same amount and perform as well, this early in to the industry

By 2035, they'll probably be mainstream any way - the same year that the gov't wants us to use zero fossil fuels for our electricity

penrhyn

New hardly, the problem is energy storage.
At the moment the future for anything other than a city runabout is hydrogen power.

rogerblack

waqasahmed wrote: »

Id say they're pretty good considering they're a relatively new thing.

No, they're not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#1890s_to_1900s:_Early_history

Ben84

I hope not, I much prefer cooking with gas.

However, personal opinions on cooking aside, I think gas will remain popular in the UK for a long time yet, based on the fact that we have a massive supply grid connecting millions of buildings and rely on it to deliver a huge amount of energy for space heating, water heating and cooking as well as uses in industry. We would struggle hugely to build enough electric plants to supply that energy as electricity and we would struggle to upgrade the national grid to deliver it by 2035, we would also have huge issues with the cost of doing this and the cost per unit of energy as electricity is more expensive than gas.

Using gas more efficiently is going to be a major topic for the future, as well as finding new sources of gas. Huge gas reserves have just been discovered in the UK, but there are other non-fossil fuel sources too:

http://www.thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/corp/hs.xsl/10982.htm