There was a grant scheme, but the government 'rations' grants, so only a few million are dispensed (inevitably in the first day of the month). We are quite willing to spend billions on new roads (the M1 expansion is £3.5bn) or airports, but not on efficient energy use. Scotland I...
1) Personally, so far as energy is concerned, I turned off the gas boiler and switched to a 'green' electricity supplier late last winter and installed a woodburning stove for heating and hot water this summer, so in theory my home consumes no fossil fuels. (This is resilience, and I ...
The team running that project was told recently to get it commercialised in ten years instead of the original twenty years. Molten salt reactors could be added to existing power plants to replace the coal-fired boiler. That technology might come along in time to provide a seamless transition....