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Post by vinny on Jun 27, 2024 10:31:02 GMT
Build lots more power stations to cut electricity costs.
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Post by AvonCalling on Jun 27, 2024 13:16:38 GMT
If you cut taxes on the poor who are you going to make pay more tax and what are we calling poor +I may have missed where this is defined)
Never understood how a regulator has allowed a standing charge let alone allowed it to be increased given how regressive a charge it is.
As to build power stations how would you square this with green commitments
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Post by patman post on Jun 27, 2024 13:35:06 GMT
Cut taxes on the poor.
Cut fuel tax.
End the standing daily charge on electricity bills.
Build lots more power stations to cut electricity costs.How can these be catered for — selling off or leasing chunks of the UK and its activities, increased borrowing, or increasing taxation or combinations of all sources?
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Power stations currently take between 10 and 20 years from planning to completion. Proposed modular and prefabrication is suggested could (after all planning permissions) lessen this to between three and five years. Rolls-Royce and GE Hitachi are detailing such systems.
Standing charges are/were intended to support the infrastructure. Removing them would require funding from elsewhere — any suggestions where from...
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Post by AvonCalling on Jun 27, 2024 14:28:40 GMT
I am sure in the economist I read something about mini nuclear reactors being feasible if not a reality.
I would replace standing charge with an increase in unit rate. Less regressive and allows those with less money to affect their bills by reducing consumption
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Post by AvonCalling on Jun 27, 2024 14:31:34 GMT
As an object lesson, and I know I am not representative right now my smart metre is at 1.72 about 1.3 of that is standing charge. That is very regressive
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Post by patman post on Jun 27, 2024 14:53:25 GMT
I am sure in the economist I read something about mini nuclear reactors being feasible if not a reality. I would replace standing charge with an increase in unit rate. Less regressive and allows those with less money to affect their bills by reducing consumption Seems like a few small modular reactors are operational:
Both public and private institutions are actively participating in efforts to bring SMR technology to fruition within this decade. Russia’s Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant that began commercial operation in May 2020, is producing energy from two 35 MW(e) SMRs. Other SMRs are under construction or in the licensing stage in Argentina, Canada, China, Russia, South Korea and the United States of America.
More than 80 commercial SMR designs being developed around the world target varied outputs and different applications, such as electricity, hybrid energy systems, heating, water desalinisation and steam for industrial applications. Though SMRs have lower upfront capital cost per unit, their economic competitiveness is still to be proven in practice once they are deployed.
Will the UK be able to streamline its planning regulations to avoid the likely Nimby delays...
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Post by AvonCalling on Jun 27, 2024 15:03:10 GMT
I am sure in the economist I read something about mini nuclear reactors being feasible if not a reality. I would replace standing charge with an increase in unit rate. Less regressive and allows those with less money to affect their bills by reducing consumption Seems like a few small modular reactors are operational:
Both public and private institutions are actively participating in efforts to bring SMR technology to fruition within this decade. Russia’s Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant that began commercial operation in May 2020, is producing energy from two 35 MW(e) SMRs. Other SMRs are under construction or in the licensing stage in Argentina, Canada, China, Russia, South Korea and the United States of America.
More than 80 commercial SMR designs being developed around the world target varied outputs and different applications, such as electricity, hybrid energy systems, heating, water desalinisation and steam for industrial applications. Though SMRs have lower upfront capital cost per unit, their economic competitiveness is still to be proven in practice once they are deployed.
Will the UK be able to streamline its planning regulations to avoid the likely Nimby delays...
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Post by Steve on Jun 27, 2024 17:07:00 GMT
Dabbling with tax on the poor and giving them subsidies is not the way to reduce the divide.
We have to create more jobs by changing the taxation system from one that penalises meaningful job creation to one that rewards it.
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Post by AvonCalling on Jun 27, 2024 19:19:59 GMT
Dabbling with tax on the poor and giving them subsidies is not the way to reduce the divide. We have to create more jobs by changing the taxation system from one that penalises meaningful job creation to one that rewards it. If we are importing 1.2M (non net figure) the I don't think jobs is a problem unless you mean well paid jobs |
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Post by Steve on Jun 27, 2024 20:13:54 GMT
Yes that's what I meant by meaningful. meaningful to the worker
We have 1.6 million officially unemployed, many more shunted off that statistic through health etc. It's a failure of our society, a massive one.
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Post by Orac on Jul 9, 2024 6:08:48 GMT
You need to make the transformation from low (and reducing) productivity, to high and increasing.
You do the opposite of what you are currently doing - instead of increasing welfare, you reduce it. Instead of increasing taxes on production, you reduce taxes on production. Instead of importing waves of low productivity 'workers', who just weigh down the system, you engender a work / success ethic in your own people and encourage them to form families.
As the Irish joke goes - "I wouldn't start here"
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Post by Zany on Jul 13, 2024 7:00:07 GMT
Cut taxes on the poor.
Cut fuel tax.
End the standing daily charge on electricity bills.
Build lots more power stations to cut electricity costs.How can these be catered for — selling off or leasing chunks of the UK and its activities, increased borrowing, or increasing taxation or combinations of all sources?
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Power stations currently take between 10 and 20 years from planning to completion. Proposed modular and prefabrication is suggested could (after all planning permissions) lessen this to between three and five years. Rolls-Royce and GE Hitachi are detailing such systems.
Standing charges are/were intended to support the infrastructure. Removing them would require funding from elsewhere — any suggestions where from...
We could sell the Isle of Wight.  Or we could build enough houses so the price of living in one falls. |
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Post by Steve on Jul 13, 2024 8:35:49 GMT
Vinny's plan in the OP requires discovery of a forest of money trees.
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Post by Orac on Jul 13, 2024 8:40:08 GMT
Cut taxes on the poor.
Cut fuel tax.
End the standing daily charge on electricity bills.
Build lots more power stations to cut electricity costs.How can these be catered for — selling off or leasing chunks of the UK and its activities, increased borrowing, or increasing taxation or combinations of all sources?
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Power stations currently take between 10 and 20 years from planning to completion. Proposed modular and prefabrication is suggested could (after all planning permissions) lessen this to between three and five years. Rolls-Royce and GE Hitachi are detailing such systems.
Standing charges are/were intended to support the infrastructure. Removing them would require funding from elsewhere — any suggestions where from...
We could sell the Isle of Wight. Or we could build enough houses so the price of living in one falls. You forgot to include the other part of your position - - and allow in an unlimited number of third world asylum seekers |
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Post by patman post on Jul 13, 2024 9:17:13 GMT
We could sell the Isle of Wight. Or we could build enough houses so the price of living in one falls. You forgot to include the other part of your position - - and allow in an unlimited number of third world asylum seekers
The data shows that more than one million properties across England in 2022 were unoccupied (4.01 per cent of all dwellings), an increase of nearly 60,000 homes since 2018.
There are currently more than one million people on council housing waiting lists and 104,000 households living in temporary accommodation. Even bringing just 10% of these empty homes back into use could help to find permanent homes for these households in temporary accommodation.
This seeming anomaly of empty houses when there is an increasing demand for housing has been voiced for years. What are the reasons that are stopping government and relevant organisations addressing this...?
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Or we could build enough houses so the price of living in one falls.