Re: energy in UK

On 14/04/2025 9:41 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
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It is worse than that. They have fanciful schemes that will get us to
net zero but only in their crazed imagination! The small problem of the
laws of physics and in particular conservation of energy get in the way.

 I switched on the radio a couple of days ago and almost immediately
heard someone say that adding two effects together gave the result
squared.  A few seconds later another 'expert'  said something like
"because the material of a building hadn't risen in temperature as much
as the surrounding air, it was working negatively, behaving as a
refrigerator".
 I immediately guessed that this was a BBC programme about the
environment and the contributers were qualified 'environmnetal experts'
brought into the studio to explain the science to us poor simpletons.
It turned out I was right.
 What hope is there when this sort of stupidity is used to bolster
political decisions based on ignorance and justify it as "science".

I think is worse than that. I suspect that advertisers have worked out that they can make money selling stuff to a gullible audience, and have
worked out how to subvert the education system so it churns out more gullible people than it used to. Politicians have gone along with this because it makes the electorate easier to manipulate.
This is the kind of conspiracy theory that Cursitor Doom loves to churn out, but it's hard to explain the success of bare-faced liars like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump on any other basis.
Cursitor Doom's own incapacity to understand the evidence of anthropogenic global warming is another example of the problem.
John Larkin went to Tulane, so he may have a different problem.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney