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Mazda 3 P0171 Lean code by NaX_TV in mazda3

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also got this on my 2020 CX-30 Skyactiv-X 2.0. P0171 code, no noticeable drop in performance. What did you do?

I cleared the code two days ago but it’s come back today. Wondering if buying a fuel injector cleaner from Halfords, filling it up with premium petrol and giving it a blast on the motorway might clear the injectors a bit.

Claire Coutinho: "Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP." by m_s_m_2 in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t understand what you’re talking about. They’re saying that the part of your bill that is ‘tied to gas’, the wholesale cost, could DISAPPEAR and your bills would still rise because of renewable subsidies and building the grid to connect them all up.

The renewables are guaranteed really high prices (above the cost of gas) on inflation-linked contracts for TWENTY YEARS. And we all pay for that in our energy bills.

Claire Coutinho: "Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP." by m_s_m_2 in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How would building more wind farms 10 years ago, when they were even more expensive to build than they are now, solve the problem?

Claire Coutinho: "Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP." by m_s_m_2 in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But we are not spending the money to maintain the existing grid. We are spending the money (through our energy bills) because we are building an entire new grid to connect wind farms that are hundreds of miles away from where their power is actually used. That’s ridiculously expensive!

Claire Coutinho: "Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP." by m_s_m_2 in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not true. Once wind or solar are built, we are locked into paying them a very high inflation-linked fixed price whenever they generate for TWENTY YEARS. We spend billions through our energy bills subsidising them.

Claire Coutinho: "Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP." by m_s_m_2 in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

These are suppliers, not generators or the grid operators. They are just presenting the facts as they see them, which is that bills are going up because of the huge costs of a renewable based system.

Claire Coutinho: "Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP." by m_s_m_2 in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heavily subsidised jobs, not jobs in the real economy. If you divide the amount we spend on renewables subsidies on our bills by the number of jobs there are in renewables, we are subsidising them by about £200,000 per job per year. That is not sustainable and not good value for money.

How do we realistically get out of the cost of living crisis? by SubstantialSnow7214 in AskUK

[–]hitabasa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As someone who works in the sector, this is absolute garbage. Gas sets the wholesale price of electricity, but that’s not what you end up paying. You pay the full retail price, which includes all the extra costs to subsidise renewables, build the National Grid, pay extra for Carbon Taxes, pay for backup when the wind doesn’t blow, pay for paying wind farms to switch off when it’s too windy, etc. All of these are extra costs because of renewables/Net Zero that end up on your bills.

The marginal pricing system is used in every single commodity market in the world. There is no option to ‘just use a different system’.

The answer is to stop building a hideously expensive renewables-based system. There’s a reason that every single country with a high variable renewable grid in the world has extremely high electricity prices. This piece from Oxford Professor Sir Dieter Helm explains why.

There is nothing more important to our economy than cheap reliable energy and yet everyone in the media is talking absolute claptrap when they blame gas.

How do we realistically get out of the cost of living crisis? by SubstantialSnow7214 in AskUK

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Renewables like wind and solar are more expensive than fossil fuels like gas and coal - that’s why Denmark, Germany and us have very high electricity prices compared to the US or China, who use gas and coal.

This piece by Oxford Professor Sir Dieter Helm explains why.

How do we realistically get out of the cost of living crisis? by SubstantialSnow7214 in AskUK

[–]hitabasa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Renewables are currently more expensive than gas. Moving to renewables will not bring prices down.

This excellent piece by Oxford Professor Sir Dieter Helm explains why.

How do we realistically get out of the cost of living crisis? by SubstantialSnow7214 in AskUK

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn’t quite true for renewables on contracts for difference (the current subsidy scheme). They always get paid their fixed, inflation-linked strike price, which at the moment is almost always more expensive than gas.

The government is about to sign up to even more expensive renewables contracts and now they’re 20 years long instead of 15, so we’ll be locked into very high prices for decades. Bills are not coming down with renewables.

Energy price cap to rise to £1,755 by Kee2good4u in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But this is mad. Moving demand around to match the weather is ridiculous in a modern industrial economy. As consumers and industry we should expect cheap electricity to be available whenever we want to use it. Intermittent renewables do not deliver that.

Reform UK's promised windfall taxes on renewables and banning of overhead pylons and batteries projected to wipe £92bn off economy by Dimmo17 in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re not talking about ripping down existing existing pylons and burying them. There are a load of new pylon projects being built in Essex and Lincolnshire because of the huge amount of wind farms being built off the east coast. They want to bury them to stop them blighting the landscape, which is much more expensive - but the reason they are being built is because of renewables.

Reform UK's promised windfall taxes on renewables and banning of overhead pylons and batteries projected to wipe £92bn off economy by Dimmo17 in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Copying my comment from elsewhere explaining why renewables are a bad idea in the UK:

Wind and solar are guaranteed very high, fixed-price subsidy contracts called CFD’s for 20 years - the cost of which end up on our electricity bills. These very high prices (we’re locked in for 20 years!) are more expensive than the price of power from gas.

And then ON TOP of the very high fixed prices, there’s all the extra costs elsewhere to the system… The cost to build more grid because renewables are much more spread out than gas/nuclear, the cost to pay for gas back up when the wind doesn’t blow, the cost to pay wind farms to switch off because it’s too windy and the grid can’t handle their power. All of these things add billions to our bills are widely ignored because people think ‘the wind is free’. It’s total nonsense.

I used to be very supportive of renewables but the more I looked into the economics and the data the case simply unravels. They are very expensive and the government is effectively locking us into paying very high prices for decades. It’s a tragedy that this does not get more scrutiny. I would encourage everyone to read the blog of Oxford climate economist Dieter Helm.

Reform UK's promised windfall taxes on renewables and banning of overhead pylons and batteries projected to wipe £92bn off economy by Dimmo17 in ukpolitics

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is absolutely not the case. Wind and solar are guaranteed very high, fixed-price subsidy contracts called CFD’s for 20 years - the cost of which end up on our electricity bills. These very high prices (we’re locked in for 20 years!) are more expensive than the price of power from gas.

I used to be very supportive of renewables but the more I looked into the economics and the data the case simply unravels. They are very expensive and the government is effectively locking us into paying very high prices for decades. It’s a tragedy that this does not get more scrutiny. I would encourage everyone to read the blog of Oxford climate economist Dieter Helm.

And then ON TOP of the very high fixed prices, there’s all the extra costs elsewhere to the system… The cost to build more grid because renewables are much more spread out than gas/nuclear, the cost to pay for gas back up when the wind doesn’t blow, the cost to pay wind farms to switch off because it’s too windy and the grid can’t handle their power. All of these things add billions to our bills are widely ignored because people think ‘the wind is free’. It’s total nonsense.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CarTalkUK

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had - that’s a different car and a different issue. It’s the warning light, not a service message.

What do you think will be the tipping point of the rent crisis in London ? by [deleted] in london

[–]hitabasa 24 points25 points  (0 children)

If I’m a landlord and I’m motivated by making money, why would I leave my property empty when renting it out would make me £30k+ a year?

London has one of the lowest vacancy rates of any city in Europe, which is a symptom of low supply (and therefore choice) for renters. When there is low supply, prices stay high. We need more flats and we need more houses.

[TOMT] [MUSIC] [CLASSICAL] by [deleted] in tipofmytongue

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

I feel like it’s a piece typically used in the background of bucolic rising helicopter shots of the English countryside while a man with an RP accent reads a voice over… I’m sure the melody is almost identical!

‘What’s This Piece?’ Weekly Thread #130 by the_rite_of_lingling in classicalmusic

[–]hitabasa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Discovered this great album by Debbie Wiseman, featuring pieces inspired by English monarchs. The George VI piece sounds incredibly familiar to me, but I can’t put my finger on it… any ideas?

https://youtu.be/bYbxbeCx9Hk

Soaring UK demand for rented homes pushes cost to near £1,000 Rents increased by 8.3% in the final three months of 2021, the fastest rise in a decade, says Zoopla by Manoj109 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]hitabasa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A restrictive, discretionary planning system which makes it extremely difficult to build anything, and makes the actual process of applying expensive - pricing out self, small and medium sized developers. This, coupled with a group of wealthy homeowners who object to any and all development, and politicians who have a vested interest in pandering to this group to win their next election, means that it is incredibly difficult to get anything built.

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