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Just got my Gassafe renewal in and wonder if it will be worth the bother soon :rotfl:
John
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TBH, it sorta fits and makes some sense if true.
Just think how much harder and harder getting GS has become over the past decade or so and, how much more costly.
If there’s nobody that can install or repair them, who’d buy one in the first place?
K.
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And, strangely enough, the world won’t spin off it’s axis because of it.
I know that may sound harsh, perhaps even defeatist to some but it is nonetheless the truth.
Dealing with GS and the HSE over the years I get the distinct impression that they really don’t give a stuff. They’ve made it increasingly difficult and more expensive to both attain and retain GS qualifications and also ensured a rise in the cost to service gas products by way of that, along with making it really hard for landlords and so on.
In the name of “safety”.
We went from blowing houses up to now, poisoning with CO. Again, a “safety” issue.
What strikes me as somewhat odd that you’d pour the resource and cash into all this “safety” when, proportionally, it’s not exactly a huge problem in the grand scheme of things. Again, that may appear a callous view but the data does seem to be out of kilter with the effort and expense.
To explain, the NHS reckon on about 200 people going to hospital annually with suspected CO poisoning with about 40 deaths attributed to that. But, another spin is 200 cases (made out to be a solid number) and 50 deaths.
Road deaths: approx 1700
Fire related deaths: approx 350
See what I mean?
There again, it may be self funding through the use of a proportion of the funding generated through registrations.
For appliance repairers though, I strongly suspect that the days of doing anything with gas products are numbered if not more than just that. I think that Lawrence and I may well be touching on this in February though in a bit more depth.
K.
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Yes, well researched quality UK journalism at its best written from an unbiased, considered and objective position.
Or, not.
K.
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So we’ll have gas fired power stations operating at 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} efficiency generating electricity, which is then transmitted through resistive cables so it can be turned back into heat in our homes?
Wonderful, we’ll all be in fuel poverty if this comes to pass :rolls:Re: Look at what they are planning next………
Na, thanks to the Scottish Government, we’ve got loads of windmills!! 😆
But if you go down the renewable road, which it seems is the way to go, then it’s sensible to some extent as you’d generate electricity and not more fuels that you burn.
And, if you go for local collective generation then a lot of issues vanish.
Need more windmills and solar panels though and somewhere to park the electricity until needed and, that’s the big problem, storage.
K.
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I am surprised rapid cooking hasn’t developed into the domestic market. If you for example went into any supermarket cafe kitchen you’ll find a product capable of cooking 15 sausages to a roast oven quality in less than 3 minutes, a tray of fried eggs in 30 seconds. They can roast a large chicken in 5 minutes. So why would you want to in the “future” have a gas burning cooker on for hours.
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Or we could all move back to Caves with wood fires and walk or run everywhere.
Bob
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A lot of things can happen in thirty years. 1984 is 30 years ago – we didnt have pcs, mobile phones, internet. Vehicle engines were inefficient. Huge leaps forward now with leds, fibre optics and digital electronics. This hysterical piece by the Daily Mail is the usual nonesense that panders to people who cant cope with change and assume what applies now will be what should apply for ever, well I’ve got news for them things will change, the market will drive a lot of it, the British Empire wont come back, and technological advances will suprise us all.
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People believed electricity would never “catch on”. Modern History should be compulsory until college age, not many peeps understand that change has always happened, that makes life fun, l don’t want to be fixing the same appliances for 50 yrs, guess that’s why my career has evolved and moved. A friend just got his long term service award, same job for 25 yrs, instead of congratulations l sent him a sympathy card.
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