Was there ever a sequel to 1984?

Downvoted. Elon bad and I won’t hear anything on the contrary.

It’s by design.

The rich want low housing and high population because it makes their assets go up. Traditionally like silent generation, greatest generation and before affordable homes for the working class and the following generations was seen as an ideal that people were willing to die for. This ideal was largely realised with the boomers.

But the boomers then decided it is better if they have houses and no one else does because their wealth can go up and they can then make money like the land owners than their grandparents were kept in poverty by. Now they can do it to their children!

I honestly don’t think it will be solved until the boomers die. Even then I wouldn’t count on it. Too much effort to keep population increasing no matter the cost.

If I was PM I would end up get voted out by doing something drastic like trying to put through a land value tax and building a new city 1mill+ city maybe between Hull and Leeds. Put a big fucking 200mph train line between Liverpool and Hull. Tell everyone to get fucked and steal some quotes from Churchill and JFK about going through hard time for the better of the country.

Businesses will love that also. Especially for testing.

This could easily explode in demand relatively quickly.

Am I too old for the internet now?

If they are avoiding it because they are “afraid” then yes. If they are doing it because fuck Putin then no

Pussy. If you not going to defend your family and your countrymen when it’s needed whats the point?

A lot of people have died to make your life better. It didn’t come for free.

I choose a supplier that is 100% green energy

Is that the guy that didn’t believe anyone when they told him the Germans were pouring through the Ardennes or was that the one before?

22 million people in the UK receive benefits. At some point we are better off moving to a UBI system.

Benefits that disappear when you start work just disincentivise work. The system needs a change and doesn’t seem to be working. Need something like tax breaks for businesses in areas with high unemployment. Or business that want to hire cheap exploited immigrants should be encouraged to first expand to areas that need jobs.

I mean grid as in utility built grid solar. Everyone uses the grid so everyone needs to pay for it. But mass development of solar in a field is always going to be cheaper way of building solar than niche solar panel installation on a roof.

There is no way you can get free solar panels installed on your house and connected up for free so there is a cost.

A large amount of this cost is labour. Utility scale solar has cheaper labour costs. As prices of solar panels goes down, relative cost of labour goes up.

I don’t see how rooftop solar will be cheaper than grid scale solar per mwh

What’s the $per kWh for rooftop vs grid scale solar?

It’s weird that solar has become so cheap, especially in certain countries. China is trying to trade and give loans to as many 3rd world countries as it can and simultaneously it is struggling to sell all it’s solar panels.

Why isn’t China giving loans to 3rd world countries to build solar power plants?

It seems like a win win for Chinese panels to go to places like Pakistan and Africa.

Grid scale is usually the cheapest. I don’t actually see how rooftop solar will ever be affordable because grid prices are going to go down also.

Is the assumption that grid costs will be substantial enough that rooftop solar becomes the cheapest?

That’s not how air to air heat pumps work.

I don’t see how and air to air heat pump wouldn’t work.

Insulation needs to be solved yes. But if you heating your house with gas verse electricity if the output is the same then the result is the same.

Dignity is great and all but it doesn’t make houses when there aren’t enough. That’s two different problems.

We are on about new ones.

If you won’t accept the most basic, basic, basic ideas about economics. Then yes congratulations you can’t be taught something. I wouldn’t be proud of that.

Having lived in Australia and New Zealand and spent time in Chicago. British houses are horseshit.

Don’t even need heating in standard UK temps if the building is insulated. Air to air heat pumps are amazing, induction is amazing, no issues with electric water heaters.

Living in fucking 1975. But everyone’s ideal is trying to upgrade to a 1850 wood burning stove. Buy a fucking heat pump and some insulation.