DandV

Well at least clothing.

Economics, regulation and societal peer pressure, like smoking cessation.

I worked it out that a NZ return economy flight used about 2tonne of fuel per person. Narrow boating for six months used about 0.7 of a tonne for the two of us.

Havn't quite got to ceasing pleasure flying but certainly reducing our carbon footprint was a factor in selling our canal boat on your side of the world reducing our air mile accumulation down to near zero. Bought a car with the proceeds, it needs it's second refuel this year!

Agree changes need to happen urgently, therefore it is necessary as a society and as individuals to urgently identify where the biggest displacements of fossil fuel use can be easily acheived and get them underway now. Push for more electrification of railway lines and better public transport to reduce private car use. Push for and take advantage of incentives to install solar and improve housing energy efficiency. There are even a lot of small things that canal boaters can get underway with now, short of scrapping your existing diesel donk, that will make a worthwhile difference. Target using less diesel each year then the year before by more solar panels, travelling slower and reducing cruising range. Sure when your existing engine needs replacement evaluate greener options, the options will rapidly improve as a result of market and regulatory pressures.

If you are seriously in the market for buying or selling a boat a very informative question to ask of a broker whilst on their premises with them and looking at their details of recently sold boats, preferably boats of a similar specification to yours, of what you are interested in buying is. "What was the actual selling price?" We had some who declined to answer, fair enough, but In the case of Rugby Boats under it's current owners, our experience, when we were on their premises, was that they were both forthcoming in answering, and that the split between asking and selling prices was remarkably small. The way that question was answered was a major factor in our selection of them to broker the sale of our boat. Our experience too on selling, was a prompt sale at very close to listed price , even though we had had initial misgivings that perhaps the suggested listed price was quite ambitious.

Ah I can now see the point of the consultation. It is to restore historical integrity to canal boat motive power. Horses. No NOx or SOx or any other smelly items. Whilst there would be considerable particulate emissions, the particle size is too large to be absorbed by humans unless well chewed first.

Not only the grid but also quick start generation. Short term peak loads are difficult and expensive to cater for. Big steam powered generation and nuclear are unsuitable for short term peak supply, so in the absence of sufficient hydro generation, gas turbines are probably best. Sorry replied to wrong post.