@no_dystopia @BareLeft The idea is current gas heating engineers would install heat pumps. Its more skilled than gas boilers and you can nake good money.
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@BareLeft @dad_climate Yeah, £100k as a petroleum engineer versus £40k installing shit heat pumps in social housing...
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The Jackdaw gas field is owned by Shell, and the yields will be sold at open market prices.
Unless there's an arrangement that gives the UK first dibs on gas at a preferential price, this doesn't actually solve anything. Total capitulation to the fossil fuel lobby.
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@BareLeft Skills can be updated via online courses ( eg heat geek) and of course you could install heat pumps and service boilers at the same time.
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@dad_climate Yeah, GMB are fucking weird.
Where they're protecting jobs, I get it. But there's a shitload of transferrable skills working in gas and oil that would also apply to working in renewables and heat pump installation. I think their leadership are weird cranks on climate issues tbh.
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To do this you need to know your stuff. Suggest a meet with people like Jan Rosenow- policy expert.
Also Adam Chapman at heat geek. (Innovative HP engineer)
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HOW 2 fight back-
first step get unions on board. The GMB are anti heat pump. Win them round.
Say landlords will be forced to fit them at their own cost ( or with reduced grant)
Promise to increase the grant to 12k for owner occupiers.
Be * for* something not just against
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@ZackPolanski The right have been making their case for this day in day out for months, largely ignored by the green left. Politically they outsmarted the green left.
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A huge betrayal.
Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks.
And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling.
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Heat pumps in social housing ( 100 year old block) in central London. We should be doing this everywhere
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And the thing is the right go on about heat pumps a lot.( trashing them) because they've been briefed by their fossil fuel backers how problematic they are for the gas industry!
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Its kind of interesting that the green left say more electricity via renewables- Marxist left nuclear.
But if you are going heat your home with it- a heat pump is generally required. No one ever mentions it. Polanski did a 40 min dive into the north sea (bold politics) ....
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@AaronBastani Important to understand that electrification = efficiency.
You don't need to replace all that 70 or 80 % remaining
A heat pump converts 1 kWh of electricity to 4 kWh of heat.
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China’s exporters will have yet another competitive advantage over global rivals, while also being in the amusing situation of offering cheap energy to Taiwan (who have so far said no).
These people played chess for 30 years, while our political class farted about on connect 4.
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Just to underline my point
@ZackPolanski. Tonight bold politics 40 mins- no mention of heat pumps- the thing that gets most homes off gas. GB news and Jenrick talk about them regularly in a negative sense.
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1/3 Green messaging on heating is a bit outdated- focus on insulation. Yes important but won't stop your gas bill going up in this type of crisis. A heat pump is what we need. Converts 1 kWh of electricity into 4 kWhof heat! @ZackPolanski
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@AaronBastani The " primary energy fallacy "
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@AaronBastani Two additional facts that matter:
1 China is starting mass production of sodium batteries- idea for energy storage & even cheaper than lithium
2 We dont need to substitute all the primary energy capacity. Fossil fuel burning wastes 2/3 of the energy they hold via heat loss.
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"The growth was led by a leap in solar capacity. which grew by 511 GW in 2025 to 2,392 GW, confirming its position as the world's largest renewable source.
The figures are far greater than the 116 GW growth in fossil fuel power capacity".
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Speak to Adam Champan at heat geek. I would say the best technical person in the UK and incidentally comes from a non uni background . The mail and telegraph setting the agenda at the moment!
Lets go on this.
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Put the grant up to 12k then stop the installation of gas boilers ASAP.
2nd homes /landlords must do it but no grant.
Stop worrying about HPs being middle class- they work like a fridge. Its easy for gas engineers to retrain.
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Green messaging on heating is a bit outdated- focus on insulation. Yes important but won't stop your gas bill going up in this type of crisis. A heat pump is what we need. Converts 1 kWh of electricity into 4 kWhof heat!
@ZackPolanski
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