By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Utter insanity in the name of saving the planet!
Giant heat pumps powering a district heating network could turn the retirement resort of Worthing, West Sussex into one of the UK’s greenest towns under government plans.
The £500m plan will see heat extracted from the atmosphere and then pumped first to public buildings and eventually to households in the area.
Worthing is one of the UK’s most gas-reliant towns with boilers installed in 77pc of its homes, and has an ageing housing stock that generally has below-average levels of insulation, according to constituency data.
The work will be led by Hemiko, a company specialising in district heating, which will invest £40m in the scheme along with £7m from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Lord Callanan, minister for energy efficiency and green finance, said: “We hope this will benefit the whole town by delivering cheaper energy bills and lower carbon emissions.”
The Worthing heat network will initially use three large air source heat pumps in an energy centre by a car park in the town centre.
At first they will heat large public buildings, including the town hall and local hospital. Homes will be connected later, with plans for the entire town to be hooked up by 2050.
Worthing has one of Britain’s oldest populations, with around 35pc of its 113,000-strong population over the age of 60, compared with 25pc nationally.
Sophie Cox, Worthing’s cabinet member for climate emergency, said the town planned to be a carbon neutral council by 2030 and a net zero borough by 2045.
A spend of £500 million works out at £4462 for every man, woman and child in Worthing. I wonder how many residents have that sort of money to spare? And that does include running costs, which we know are higher than gas boilers.
As for the potty heat network idea, it can work within very small areas, but to pipe hot water all around the town would entail a huge heat loss.
I somehow don’t see Worthing’s old aged pensioners being very warm in winter!
Of course, this is the sort of nonsense you get when you have a Cabinet Member for Climate Emergency.
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