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Fossil fuel gas hobs and boilers BANNED in all new-build homes from 2025. UK Government legislation ... from a right wing government.
by shapefrog 4y ago
Fossil fuel gas hobs and boilers BANNED in all new-build homes from 2025.
UK Government legislation ... from a right wing government.
- Lutger 4y agoYes. This doesn't mean gas stoves are banned (existing ones are not outlawed). In fact its not about stoves at all. It means some countries are doing at least something to address climate change. Eventually we all need to move away from gas, this is about that. Not banning gas stoves overnight, but gradually banning all fossil fuels, which you can't do if everybody is still cooking on gas. You need to gradually reduce your dependency on it.
- the_third_wave 4y agoNo, countries do not need to move away from gas even if you're convinced CO₂ is the cause of all our woes. What you'd want to move away from is natural gas, not gas in itself. There are plenty of other ways to get methane - which is what natural gas is (more or less) - which do not add CO₂ to the environment. Domestic waste can be fermented for local production, industrial, agricultural and forest-industry waste for larger-scale installations. Methane is a good energy carrier given the ease at which it can be transported and handled. It is not poisonous, it can be compressed and/or liquefied and it burns cleanly without the need for complex burner designs.