January 20, 20233 yr Could will be true, though an equally likely scenario is that we will have left it to the last minute and then suffer really extreme drastic measures to save ourselves. In that scenario there will be no mega rich kids of the future, we'll all be living impoverished lives with more than few hints of life having a medieval character. . Easter island always springs to mind.
January 20, 20233 yr Author nothing done on either side will save the planet, it's too late the damage is done Easter island always springs to mind. But maybe not longer term. The arctic tundra of Asia and North America is rapidly warming with the permafrost disappearing fast. That is a vast area capable of feeding billions. The problem is the big time gap between the increasing numbers of the starving peoples of Central America and sub-Saharan Africa migrating north now, and when the Arctic will be agriculturally developed. That time gap of several hundred years could greatly reduce the world population by starvation and other deprivations. So an enforced two part solution, a huge reduction of the world population followed by plenty of food from the newly fertile north. That would give humanity a second chance to get its future right. .
January 20, 20233 yr we'll all be living impoverished lives with more than few hints of life having a medieval character. I don't know what is worse, a frozen dystopia or a 21st century Medieval Britain with food imported on sail boats from the Arctic.
January 20, 20233 yr I don't know what is worse, a frozen dystopia or a 21st century Medieval Britain with food imported on sail boats from the Arctic. One thing for sure there will always be the haves and the have nots.
January 20, 20233 yr Author I don't know what is worse, a frozen dystopia or a 21st century Medieval Britain with food imported on sail boats from the Arctic. Well it is said variety is the spice of life ! Maybe we won't need the sailboats. To limit travel we could all be living in that newly warmed, fertile north where all the food is grown. To pack us all in we'd need to be in 200 to 300 storey tower blocks with solar powered lifts, or maybe with mid air walkway bridges to communicate between the blocks to reduce the up and down movement. .
January 20, 20233 yr Author One thing for sure there will always be the haves and the have nots. Pessimistically, sure. But an optimist might say the haves and the have even more. Compared with the lives of our grandparents (or even parents in some cases) that is certainly true. .
January 20, 20233 yr haves and the have nots. Indeed, I have now but will I still have, in a years time, I fear many think they have but most are a wage packet away from poverty, more over now considering the BoE will be aiming at lowering employment. A middle aged friend on a good HGV wage & a spend thrift, working the max hours allowed recently found out his small business owning boss, is trying to sell his quarter million pound home to stump up cash to float the business after an accounting firm upped the bill 2 fold for tax, wages and credit provisions, so far the bank has allowed a temporary line of credit to meet their obligations, but that could and still might end up with 10 people out of work at the whim of the system (higher interest rates I assume). There could be various other factors & variables involved but that was the basic fundamentals. It goes to show. I have chosen; medieval 21st century Britain after learning way back when they drank beer at breakfast & continued drinking throughout the day, I could dig that.
January 20, 20233 yr Author Indeed, I have now but will I still have, in a years time, I fear many think they have but most are a wage packet away from poverty So very true, and why they suffer from recessions. If only they saved in the good times instead of blowing everything away as it arrives, they wouldn't even know a recession had occurred. I have chosen; medieval 21st century Britain after learning way back when they drank beer at breakfast & continued drinking throughout the day, I could dig that. It sounds ridiculous, but I actually remember that ! It was wartime, remote in the countryside, when as kids we were marched out of the village school first thing and into the fields to help with the harvest. Working all day to 5 pm, the village older men scything the wheat, the older kids binding the sheaves and we younger ones stacking the stooks, we had a midday break for bread and cheese. The men all drank beer but we kids had water. With horse and cart transport for some, the scene was so close to being medieval there really was little difference, showing how easily we could slip back several centuries. .
January 20, 20233 yr we burn rubbish to get our power and it is no cheaper and they should pay me for it if its going to get used as fuel lmfao https://ramboll.com/projects/ruk/gloucester-energy-from-waste-facility https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/property/new-government-rules-wood-burning-8049861 What is the cheapest way to be cremated? The cheapest way to be cremated is to have a direct cremation, also known as 'cremation without ceremony' or 'unattended cremation'. A direct cremation is the cheapest cremation because there's no funeral service or ceremony before the cremation. i can fit in that as id rather go up than down and be ground in to compost
January 21, 20233 yr Will the beer and electricity be at medieval prices? As long as I don't have to pedal, get some solar panels in now I have a spare hub motor! i can fit in that as id rather go up than down and be ground in to compost With the amount of beer I have drank over the years, I would encourage to many slugs nothing would grow... On a more practical note, does everyone have the Electricity Blackout PDF and Block letter just in case?
January 21, 20233 yr Author On a more practical note, does everyone have the Electricity Blackout PDF and Block letter just in case? It will never be followed since it's complex shambles of a plan. It tells consumers nothing since we won't know the demand level on which the rota operates. The plan we operated during the Arab oil crisis of the 1970s was simple, far better and easily understood, so I think if the cuts do become necessary commonsense will have prevailed by then. .
January 21, 20233 yr As long as I don't have to pedal, get some solar panels in now I have a spare hub motor! Might have to pedal, but there would still be fun!
January 22, 20233 yr Pessimistically, sure. But an optimist might say the haves and the have even more. Compared with the lives of our grandparents (or even parents in some cases) that is certainly true. . The difference between an optimist & a pessimist is.... experience.
January 22, 20233 yr Author The difference between an optimist & a pessimist is.... experience. Or no difference? I optimistically think that things will continue to get worse. .
January 22, 20233 yr Maybe guerney can adapt those poles to help increase passing distance? Riders within 3m wide rod shells made of aerogel, carried by clenched teeth would do it.
January 22, 20233 yr Is "Naming and shaming" a crackdown, Schapps? Crackdown on energy firms over rise in prepayment meters https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64364195
January 26, 20233 yr Can anyone forsee a REDUCTION in our energy bills in the future as new wind, solar and atomic energy come onstream. If this present crisis is largly the result of the Ukrainian war, then would an end to it reverse the situation? Where is global warming when you need it? Not in the Highlsnds for sure!"
January 26, 20233 yr More UK instabilitly could be on the way as Shell ponder on withdrawing from UK & EU retail sector according to a Reuters. LONDON (Reuters) - Shell has launched a strategic review of its home energy retail businesses in Britain, the Netherlands and Germany in the wake of "tough market conditions", it said on Thursday. European energy suppliers have struggled over the past year with soaring wholesale prices and efforts by governments to shield consumers from rising bills. No decision has been taken yet on the future of the businesses, Shell said. Shell injected nearly $1.5 billion in cash and credit into its British energy retail business in 2022 to help it weather huge volatility in power prices that caused the collapse of several rival UK utilities. Shell said its wholesale and business-to-business (B2B) energy supply businesses are not part of the strategic review, and neither are its home energy supply businesses in the United States and Australia.
January 26, 20233 yr Author Can anyone forsee a REDUCTION in our energy bills in the future as new wind, solar and atomic energy come onstream. If this present crisis is largly the result of the Ukrainian war, then would an end to it reverse the situation? No, for these reasons: And end to the war still leaves the western world unable to trade with Putin while he is in office, so the gas and oil shortage continues. Because we are part of a Europe wide electricity grid sharing scheme, we also operate to pan European prices. To get Hinckley Point built we had to agree to very high prices per mW once it is built, leaving no room for price cutting. No doubt the new Sizewell C will have a similar price agreement to get it built. We need vastly more base load capacity to get out of this situation by leaving the European grid and going it alone, something like three more nuclear stations after Hinckley Point and Sizewell C. That isn't going to happen anytime soon for financial and build capacity reasons. .
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