Coal Clough Windfarm in Lancashire, UK.
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Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.
The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.
The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
Minesweeping is woke.
So finally in the 21st century after a debate of more than 25 years we decided to abolish feudalism. Or at least the most visible part of it. 👇
Now you know why oil producers really don't want this to continue.
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Many areas of the world experienced this in gas just a couple of years ago. Europe was writing (state funded) blank cheques like it was going out of fashion, and places like Pakistan couldn't get an LNG shipment as the ability to pay evaporated.
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Literally not one mention of cycling looool.
Even on the bit where it's like - "if you commute by train, see if you can get a season ticket for the car park".
Idk why not try cycling to the station for free?! www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
Politicians move on but war lasts for decades.
Sorry, BBC, but I’m pretty sure Portsmouth is the bit over to the left.
Hope the Dragon’s captain has a better chart.
Speaking of misogyny, it's like climate people are the woman who just need to be more beautiful, sexy, charming, irresistible, flawless, understanding so the man will behave himself. No pressure on the man to stop the bad behavior.
True! There were other actual boats with HPs, but I didn’t manage to take photos of them.
This is a terrible and very uninformed take of Tim who should know better.
- heat pumps save around 80% gas today compared to gas boilers
- using renewable electricity is one of the most effective ways to reduce gas consumption
- the marginal emissions argument is deeply flawed (more in comments)
Canal boat with heat pump
I saw some canal boats with heat pumps in Amsterdam the other year…
Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social £3-6k to the consumer, plus the £7,500 cost to government is in line with my figures, which came from friends who had them installed.
Adam Chapman @chiefgeekad.bsky.social Replacement heat pump will be around 3-6k currently. I expect that to drop to 2-4k in the next few years.
What’s REALLY entertaining is when an economist thinks he knows more about the costs of a replacement heat pump installation than @chiefgeekad.bsky.social from @heat-geek.bsky.social.
Don’t forget that Heat Geek oversees thousands of HP installations a year… 🤣
I will admit that I have no concerns about us installing heat pumps too quickly - quite the opposite! Although the current war will doubtless cause a demand uptick, much as a previous one did.
Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social • 1d Exactly! A £15k heat pump (govt subsidy & your own expense), cuts gas 40%, i.e. 4400 kWh, 800kg CO2. I think that in the short run we will get a bigger CO2 reduction if we spend that money on more renewables. A bigger subsidy for EVs would probably save more CO2 per £ as well.
Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social Yes! £15k if overnight, £12k at renewal.
Adam Chapman @chiefgeekad.bsky.social Replacement heat pump will be around 3-6k currently. I expect that to drop to 2-4k in the next few years.
Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social £3-6k to the consumer, plus the £7,500 cost to government is in line with my figures, which came from friends who had them installed.
You originally said £15k for a heat pump. You repeated this & said “£12k at renewal”.
Adam corrected you & said “Replacement heat pump will be around 3-6k currently”,
You replied “£3-6k to the consumer, plus the £7,500 cost to government is in line with my figures”.
Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social Yes! £15k if overnight, £12k at renewal. Phil Buckley @goodlegs.me.uk • 23h We have to have a heating system. When a gas boiler reaches end of life, it doesn't cost EO to replace so it's not £0 vs £15k.
Oh really?
Remind me what you meant here in that case?
Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social £3-6k to the consumer, plus the £7,500 cost to government is in line with my figures, which came from friends who had them installed.
Adam Chapman @chiefgeekad.bsky.social Replacement heat pump will be around 3-6k currently. I expect that to drop to 2-4k in the next few years.
What’s REALLY entertaining is when an economist thinks he knows more about the costs of a replacement heat pump installation than @chiefgeekad.bsky.social from @heat-geek.bsky.social.
Don’t forget that Heat Geek oversees thousands of HP installations a year… 🤣
Sometimes, when you’re having an extended argument with someone online, it’s really quite entertaining when they accidentally show just how little they know about the subject in question.
Here, for example, Tim thinks you can get a Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant for a replacement heat pump. 🤦🏻♂️
Do you honestly think you know more able heat pumps than @chiefgeekad.bsky.social?
This is getting embarrassing… 🙈
You don’t get the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant for replacement heat pumps. 🤦🏻♂️
That’s a surprisingly rookie error for you, isn’t it? I was just advising a neighbour not to buy an Interrail pass this weekend as I thought the spring sale was imminent…
Also - these days I always get my passes from All Aboard where I can get 100% refund if it’s needed anytime.
The spring Interrail sale has rolled round - 15% off all passes bought before end of March.
(Amusingly for me, this has launched during the 7-day free cancellation period for some passes I bought on Saturday. I will definitely not *ahem* be acting accordingly.) allaboard.eu/interrail
Bit of a call out to fellow historians!
Anyone with suitable interest/expertise available on Monday and up for recording a podcast with me on "Rat Lines" - the post-war efforts to help Nazi's escape to South America and elsewhere?
Unfortunately my planned guest had to drop out #skystorians
Oliver Metcalfe, head of wind research at BloombergNEF. “Challenged by razor-thin margins at home, Chinese suppliers are leveraging lower-cost production and fast delivery to enter new markets and undercut established rivals across Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.” Outside mainland China, new additions also rose, increasing 17% year-on-year to 43GW. For the first time since wind power emerged as a major global force, India edged out the US and Germany to claim the title of biggest wind market outside mainland China. India’s climb is bolstered by complex auctions, which typically require developers to integrate multiple renewable technologies or oversize projects beyond their contracted capacity, particularly in wind. “India fully deserves its place as the second-largest wind market in the world.” said Siddharth Shetty, BNEF’s lead wind analyst for India. “The sector is reaping the rewards of complex auctions, pioneered by India’s clean power auctioning agencies in 2018. And this momentum is not fading. We expect wind build to continue at similar levels through the end of this decade.”
China and India making the smart choice while Europe bafflingly decides this is the perfect time to tighten the cuffs that are chaining us to ultra-expensive gas
Gas accounted for 29% electricity generation in 2025. That’s set to drop to 5% by 2030. Now is the time to encourage heat pump adoption, not slow it down.
Too many worst case assumptions get piled up (COP of 2.8, standard electricity tariff, no diversity applied to electricity supply etc.) and it makes a simple engineering challenge look impossible or unviable. It’s time that sensible assumptions got used for assessments.
This is a really weird take for the Chief Economist at Nestsa UK as it’s completely counter to Nesta’s work in speeding up heat pump adoption.
I presume that Nesta doesn’t agree with what you’re writing here?
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I have been following this debate with some interest, and let me try to set out what Tim is saying here. If a heat pump costs £15k and lasts 15 years and over its lifetime saves 15*0.8tCO2e=12tCO2e then the capex per tonne is about £1,250.
Seriously. £15k if overnight, £12k at renewal. What a load of old tosh (and this from someone who claims to be an economist)
