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More than 175,000 electric vehicle charging points and 244,000 household heat pumps must be fitted around Glasgow by 2030 if the city is to achieve its goal to be the UK’S first to reach net-zero climate emissions, according to power network providers.
If you get stabbed in Glasgow low probability your attacker will get caught. If you stray into a bus lane two days later there will be a photo and a fine will arrive in the post. Moral of the tale: if you get threatened by a Ned, make sure it happens in a bus lane!
G Wood Never mind the drugs, the homeless, the poverty, the crumbling roads, let’s do a bit of virtue signalling.
Old Man of Hoy Glasgow is the poster boy for Scottish insanity. Spending billions for absolutely zero return. Still, we’ve long since dealt with our poverty, education, drug amd alcohol problems, homelessness ... so why not waste this cash on telling the world we’re officially insane?
weescunner Slightly off topic, but I’ve just returned from a break in two European cities that have essentially made car drivers 2nd class citizens in the city centres, prioritising pedestrians and cyclists equally over motorists. What occurred to me is how these places do not have our dying high street problem. The opposite in fact, with independent shops, cafes and restaurants in abundance and thriving alongside the chains. It has convinced me that the one thing that UK councils can do to save their high streets is to pedestrianise our streets properly.
Dunnomuch “Two million charge points and nearly two million electric heat pumps.” That will require a lot of electrical power. A lot more than we are producing already. How many new power stations are going to be built to provide all this additional power?
Noggin the Nog How much better still to be ‘net-zero’ as regards drug deaths, homelessness, begging and rough sleeping’!
Andrew Macaulay Name one city in the world that has none of the above?
infamous clarity Forward... to the 19th century
Steve Mcmahon Net zero? Each MW of wind power capacity requires 220 tonnes of coal! Carbon footprint of a typical wind turbine is a massive 241.85 tons of CO2. Each 3MW wind turbine needs: 335 tons of steel, 4.7 tons of copper, 1,200 tons of concrete (cement and aggregates), three tons of aluminium, two tons of rare earth elements, aluminium, zinc, molybdenum. Zinc, nickel, cobalt, platinum, aluminium, rare earth elements, and nickel (new sources) are between 73 and 100 per cent imported.
George Herraghty