All UK HGVs to be zero emissions from 2040

[Munkul]

Boo hoo. It's crap, it stinks. You're next to a field. Be thankful you're not next to a high rise.

 

[minimutly]

Direct injection - nooo, that's only for human waste. Farmers still spay cow slurry far and wide, and the numbers of times a year means direct injection probably would do some real damage to the turf. A few are pump spaying it around here - easier and less damage I guess. Same smell though..

 

[Munkul]

Direct injection - nooo, that's only for human waste. Farmers still spay cow slurry far and wide, and the numbers of times a year means direct injection probably would do some real damage to the turf. A few are pump spaying it around here - easier and less damage I guess. Same smell though..

Yes and no. In NVZs where the EA have mandated, they aren't allowed to spread any slurry with splash plates. All done with direct injection or dribble bars, to minimise vapour losses you get with splash plates. Also heavily regulated as to what times of year they can spread, IIRC from November to March it's banned. Again, only in NVZs which are pretty arbitrary, our neighbours are and we aren't, dispite being next to the same watercourse!

 

[The Artilleryman]

Boo hoo. It's crap, it stinks. You're next to a field. Be thankful you're not next to a high rise.

I'm surrounded by fields, but they only seem to spread in the one field.

I thought direct injection was supposed to cut down the smell, obviously I was wrong.
It took them 3 days and it's not that large a field, and the chaos the tankers cause when transferring the slurry.

I know nothings done quickly round here, but.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars to Tax

The oil producing nation is learning what happens after a country fills its roads with electric vehicles.

www.wired.co.uk

A glimpse of our future

 

[mike os]

Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars to Tax

The oil producing nation is learning what happens after a country fills its roads with electric vehicles.

www.wired.co.uk

A glimpse of our future

Gee I wonder how the wastrels will claw back the lost income?

 

[Richiew]

Reminds me of the Childcatcher reveal from Chitty Chitty Bangbang once he's got them all in the cage.

 

[MetalMonkey]

Bit of a lack of insight into how dnos work here. If you're a customer, which we all are, you want a bigger supply? They do a study, the planner tells you what it will cost, you pay. The dno might want to plan upgrades for future use, but the money comes from the customer.

I'd agree with you for new customers or capacity upgrades. But most domestic customers are already going to have a minimum of a 60A cutout, which can accommodate a standard 7kw charger with no requirement to request an upgrade to their supply or even notify the DNO unless maximum predicted load exceeds it.

One of those in every house getting switched on after work is going to equate to quite a bit of cumulative load. That isn't a quick peak load either, they are going to be running for several hours even on a top up charge.
Keep in mind average household consumption is currently only around 10 kWh per day. That's before we take into account all the heat pumps and electric heating when we ditch the gas boilers (hoho).

Seems there is a lot of focus recently on generating this extra capacity, but I've not seen much on distributing it.

In the grand scheme of things it isn't exactly an insurmountable problem, I believe on new build developments they have already quadrupled their kw requirement per plot. However, it does make me wonder where the investment is going to come from for existing customers if DNOs are that strapped - and whether it is going to be made in sufficient time that a well planned upgrade can be implemented, or in a last minute scramble when they realise it has all gone pete tong.
Are the resources going to be focused on the miles of existing infrastructure that may need to be upgraded, or the shiny new profitable projects?

 

[minimutly]

Gee I wonder how the wastrels will claw back the lost income?

I’ve already said - they will introduce tax per mile, for all cars. So whether you pay fuel tax(IC dinofuel engine) or not, you will still pay. Hence the dinofuel drivers will pay twice....
And wastrels or not, the country must have workers tax money to, er, waste - so it will happen...

 

[minimutly]

I'd agree with you for new customers or capacity upgrades. But most domestic customers are already going to have a minimum of a 60A cutout, which can accommodate a standard 7kw charger with no requirement to request an upgrade to their supply or even notify the DNO unless maximum predicted load exceeds it.

One of those in every house getting switched on after work is going to equate to quite a bit of cumulative load. That isn't a quick peak load either, they are going to be running for several hours even on a top up charge.
Keep in mind average household consumption is currently only around 10 kWh per day. That's before we take into account all the heat pumps and electric heating when we ditch the gas boilers (hoho).

Seems there is a lot of focus recently on generating this extra capacity, but I've not seen much on distributing it.

In the grand scheme of things it isn't exactly an insurmountable problem, I believe on new build developments they have already quadrupled their kw requirement per plot. However, it does make me wonder where the investment is going to come from for existing customers if DNOs are that strapped - and whether it is going to be made in sufficient time that a well planned upgrade can be implemented, or in a last minute scramble when they realise it has all gone pete tong.
Are the resources going to be focused on the miles of existing infrastructure that may need to be upgraded, or the shiny new profitable projects?

Dno’s are specking 3 phase supplies for new estates - so the local transformer can do it, even if the individual customer doesn’t ask for it. I guess the developer pays.