Thanks for this Jonathan, you've articulated some of the things I think I've been feeling - albeit a bit more viscerally and a lot more vaguely.
Oh dear God...
And before anyone starts saying this means we cannot afford space for nature, remember that majority of our cereal crops are used for animal feed, and many also for AD/biofuels.
Thanks to a wet winter and a poor summer, "UK facing third-worst cereal harvest in 40 years". www.fwi.co.uk/business/mar...
UK cereal output is expected to be more than 3m tonnes down on the five-year average this season, making 2024 one of the worst harvests in decades. New
But I have to confess my attention was more drawn to the fact that half the reported SPFs in that BEIS programme were 2.8 or below. Which is not fun if you were already eking out your heat very carefully when you had a gas boiler
Absolutely!
But yeah I know I'm spoiling people's fun here ...
I thought Michael's point was important though - overall running costs are what really counts for most people. Which is not quite the same.
being entirely serious here when I say that only solution that I'm certain would work, if you could somehow make it happen, would be to get millions of men to stop being babies until the age of about 38
Sent off down a rabbit hole this eve by question of whether EVs being heavier than ICE cars means more road wear... In the 50s US research (The AASHO Road Test) drove various trucks 17 million miles (!) on test tracks. A key conclusion is that wear is propotional to axle weight to power of 4 🧵...
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