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From: Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: energy in UK
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:38:14 +0100
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:41:41 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

>Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>
>[...]
>> It is worse than that. They have fanciful schemes that will get us to
>> net zero but only in their crazed imagination! The small problem of the
>> laws of physics and in particular conservation of energy get in the way.
>
>I switched on the radio a couple of days ago and almost immediately
>heard someone say that adding two effects together gave the result
>squared.  A few seconds later another 'expert'  said something like
>"because the material of a building hadn't risen in temperature as much
>as the surrounding air, it was working negatively, behaving as a
>refrigerator".
>
>I immediately guessed that this was a BBC programme about the
>environment and the contributers were qualified 'environmnetal experts'
>brought into the studio to explain the science to us poor simpletons.
>It turned out I was right.
>
>What hope is there when this sort of stupidity is used to bolster
>political decisions based on ignorance and justify it as "science".

This is what the BBC has become, sadly.