Interesting Links for 12-03-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Scottish government scraps green heating plans for new homes

(tags:snp globalwarming heating doom )

2. The US island that speaks Elizabethan English

(tags:language usa history English )

3. A week ago Israel cut off all food and humanitarian supplies from Gaza. Two days ago it cut off electricity from its desalination plant

(tags:genocide Israel gaza )

4. Despite everything, US EV sales are up 28% this year (as are EU sales. UK up 40%)

(tags:electricity cars GoodNews )

5. What's going on with Ukraine and what should Europe be doing?

(tags:UK Europe Russia )

6. Groundbreaking study finds human litter at deepest point in Mediterranean Sea (90% of it plastic)

(tags:waste littering ocean )

7. EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods

(tags:economics uk usa )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

1. I had to read quite far to find out if they meant

a) "new" as in "new to the buyer" or
b) "new" as in "new build"

But it seems a). But it made me think about b) Is there law that new builds must have "greener" heating?

I think the scheme could have worked, with the cost of the upgrade priced into the house prices, those already fitted with "greener" heating commanding higher prices. I don't see the "fuel poverty" connection. It would have meant if you can't afford house + heating upgrade, you couldn't have afforded the house (so don't buy it!).

Of course, objection sources were almost bound to be a "buy to let" landlords or anyone doing property buying and selling. grrr.