Charles Jillings, CEO of Utilico, energized by strong economic momentum across Latin America. Watch the video here.
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A new Personal best for me.
A streak of 28 filtered posts - then 2 from Redknight.
wonderful feeling to know i missed - nothing and saved myself from reading - mince.
Wonder if this week will be a turning point for Solg. I started averaging down again last week at 10.38 bringing my average down to 15. Held for far too long not to see this through.
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Why Latin America matters
The energy transition is becoming the most important economic trend this century. Whether you believe in climate change or not, it’s clear that government pledges, such as the UK’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2050, combined with corporate pledges – for example Toyota will no longer make traditional internal combustion engines from 2040 onwards – will funnel trillions of dollars into the energy transition over the next few decades. And Latin America, which is home to huge reserves of the critical metals needed for the transition, will be the main beneficiary.
Electric vehicles use far more copper than cars with internal combustion engines and the International Energy Agency believes that growing EV production means the world will have an annual shortfall of 2.4 million tonnes of copper by 2030. That’s positive for Latin America, which dominates copper production. Peru and Chile are the world’s largest producers of the red metal and their 40% share of global output is a similar to 13-country Opec’s control of the oil industry. The region’s share of the world copper market is likely to increase in the coming decades as geologists believe that Ecuador and Argentina could eventually mine as much of the red metal as their neighbours. At present Ecuador only has one large-scale copper mine, while Argentina has none. But a pipeline of multibillion-dollar copper mines is set to come online in both countries, which will catapult them into global top ten copper producers by 2030.
Green hydrogen is the way to go...for the time being I've gone hybrid...makes sense...
Quady I contacted them already, they aren’t offering an installation yet on a property the size of mine.
Tesla yes the cooling would be a benefit as I have portable air con in the office and in the bedroom where all the action is ;)
But it’s simply way too expensive an outlay, particularly when the incoming socialist fascists has me considering selling up and moving abroad anyway
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I have to agree with quady, I had 2 heat pumps installed total cost £9k I should have got £5k grant but plumber messed up the application.
Yep they are ugly, no question, but with our new specifically designed rads, which added another £8k to the cost, they work better than when we had a gas boilers but the real kicker in everything is they also cool the house down as the heat pumps can reverse the valve and pump cool water around the radiators and with the recent increase in temp during the summers that is extremely handy.
I bought fans, I bought cooling units and none of them work but radiator cooling will be very welcome next summer.
The way the last couple of summers have been al, the bedrooms need air conditioning units……..not any more
Again what absolute rubbish from Slug.
A friend of mine is having a heat pump from octopus energy after the government increased the subsidy from 5,000 to 7,500 pounds.
So he gets a new heat pump. An intelligent hot water tank
Also all his radiators changed for new ones and the deinstallation of his hot water boiler, he is also having his gas capped, so his house will be totally electric.
Total cost 3,600 pounds.
I feel currently this is the best deal on the market.
It's available for everyone.
Give octopus energy a ring.
Absolutely agree it should be personal choice, that’s why the Net Zero drive is so stupid. I’ve driven the electric Porsche and the noise is daft.
I like proper cars designed to be driven enthusiastically not a milk float on a two ton battery.
They will improve of course and my whole point is that when they’re good enough people will definitely buy them.
Right now they’re not that’s why sales have plateaued because all the people who wanted one through their business for a tax rebate have got one
Heat pumps similarly would have more uptake if people wanted and believed in them. If my gas boiler breaks it’s 4K for a new one, if my 15k heat pump were to break that’s some difference
And they’re ugly and make a noise and everybody I know who has one says they don’t get warm enough
And of course they’re powered by burning gas to put into the National grid….so what’s the point?! 🤪
I love F1, however it helps if your driver is winning everything 🤣🤣🤣
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We all do what is best for us personally, just look at Meghan and Harry as an example 🤣, however the UK has plenty of storage for all this renewable electricity it produces in the form of 1m EVs sitting on their drives. It’s why octopus pay customers to use electric when it’s windy but very shortly the grid will have access to 1m EV batteries to power the country which will help in protecting against the Russian nutter and opec+
I have gone electric because financially it worked for me I appreciate you don’t want to rip up your Italian marble but I ripped up our solid oak flooring because the house was cold, not it’s electric and warm and extremely cheap to run.
Electric cars are ridiculously quick but it’s the speed combined with the noise that makes sport cars exciting in my opinion.
Look we will never agree on this but heat pumps etc are not as expensive as people make out they are……..
Hydrogen is another matter. It’s energy intensive but it’s clean. We backed the wrong horse with battery cars
Nobody ever stopped to think about why a country as tiny as England would even need a high speed rail network. I France where cities are some 400 miles apart then it makes sense
Birmingham to Manchester is something like 120 miles, even the fastest trains aren’t going to make
Substantial difference to journey times
Did you know that for the same cost as completing HS2 we could have reinstated everything (Labours) Beeching chopped away?
That would benefit tens of millions of normalcy people not just the Birmingham to Manchester prawn sandwich brigade
Again Slug you show yourself to be the most unintelligent poster on here.
Who is on about electric plane's.
Airbus already has a hydrogen plane that will be ready in 2035.
Good afternoon Tesla also a F1 fan.
Again formula E I agree is boring.
But in our day to day life's, we do need to do things to give our children a chance.
I have been a floating voter most of my life, have voted Conservative for most of it, Liberal Democrat and Green.
I have never voted Labour, but will be voting for them in the next election.
Because we need to do more for the younger generation, house building, although they will not achieve 1.5 million in five years.
At least they plan to stop local opposition, which is why the Conservatives have failed.
Also Sunaks attack on green policies is so short sighted.
The scraping of HS2 is just the worst decision for the long term.
We are restricted so much by the rail infrastructure in this country.
The lack of HS2 is the biggest impediment to growth in the country.
Tesla that’s exactly the woke mindset, we’re all right about everything and you must toe the line. Except you’re not!
An electric F1 would be rubbish, electric planes will never take off (no pun intended) and until
We figure out how to store enormous amounts of electricity, all these vehicles will be powered by burning fossil fuels in part or at times in whole
So it achieves nothing
Agree with the other comments, the spectre is the only stunning EV out there and I’d live with the range issue if I could afford one. The RR 4x4 is like an ugly london taxi
Quady it’s been accumulating and dispersing for 4.6bn years. If you want to “educate” yourself, have a read about the latest research out of switzlerland I think it was, the new smoking gun that rising temperatures cause rising co2 in the atmosphere :)
Mindsets need to change are there are people like yourself who are very sceptical.
Formula e is pants, there is no atmosphere and I enjoy F1.
At some point I’ll look at a Ferrari and it won’t be electric however for day to day driving and comfort I would take an electric RR over a Bentley every time, the Bentayga is one of the ugliest 4x4s ever, albeit very nice interior wise .
The rolls Royce 4x 4 f]gives the bentley a close run for money in the ugly stakes as well
The word starred out is coc.kpit.
great slug again you show yourself to be the most unintelligent poster on here.
its ****pit is as strong as a monocoque.
it has a bigger boot than most small hatchbacks.
what are you on about with range issues, it can do a thousand miles on a single charge.
lastly when you talk about 0.04 you have no ideas of the maths.
it's about the cumulative effect and we already have far to much co2 in the atmosphere.
it's the man made co2 that is the problem.
try educating yourself. impossible i know, but at least try reading about climate change.
Your argument is so flawed it’s embarrassing.
2nd hand EVs have dropped dramatically in price, they are so much cheaper to run than an ICE
I never do a 4-500mi round trip ever on the same day.
The charger story is a red herring it is easy to charge your car 2-300 whilst you have a coffee at a Tesla supercharger, personally I rarely do it because it’s expensive and it is so easy to charge at home.
Not having to go to a garage and fill up with diesel is a pleasure.
My e-torn battery showed zero degradation after 3 years and 30k miles.
Chinese owned MG have come out with huge increase in sales, hmmmmm I wonder how that can possibly napped.
For someone that has very little experience of any of this you are very critical.
You can lead a horse to water…….
Also it looks like a reincarnated Sinclair C5
It is frankly hideous
I did just look at the aptera, expected to be about £27k? And where would you put people and luggage? And how would it cope with a head on smash with a transit?
For the same money you can buy a slightly ageing Bentley W12, terrific engineering, a thrill to drive, large, comfortable and with no range issues beciase you simply fill it back up in a couple of minutes once it’s empty
*amazing ones
And finally, if a product is good enough and/or cheap enough then you don’t need to badger people into buying it, they will buy in their droves.
If you have to subsidise something then it isn’t viable. By opening subsidy to the entire county you’re effectively mandating them to spend their own money on something they might not want
Nobody has done the maths (actually some have but it’s never talked about because it would highlight how folly the whole movement is)
It’s something like £300,000 per house by 2050 to even get close to net zero, then as mentioned previously the metals simply don’t exist yet.
All to “save” 1% of 0.04% of 0.04% of what’s in the atmosphere!! Meanwhile, other nations are belching out ever more at a staggering rate of knots
The sheer stupidity of this is unbelievable
Slug again you prove yourself to me the most unintelligent poster on here.
We already have a car that you don't need to charge as it charges between 30-40 miles a day from the sun and can do a thousand miles on a single charge.
You would hate it as it's a sensible solution and you don't have a clue about anything.
However if you are interested look up the Aptera, coming to the UK hopefully next year
Not perfect but I will be buying one unless anything better on the market.
Listen to these two dimwits who think nobody else has done a cost/benefit analysis on EVs only them!
Annual mileage is irrelevant, the second biggest issue is range. 300 miles at best if you drive like a vicar and don’t use the air con. Even a short weekend round trip to the Lakes for me is some 350-400 miles
Now multiply that by 30 million cars all waiting for half hour slots to charge up. It’s simply not feasible
Plus the fact I like to get on the road and get home not faff around waiting for a battery Charge
But the biggest problem is cost. People can buy and maintain a banger for about 2-5k and run it cheaply. Entry to the EV market is staggeringly expensive and for those who rely on very old very cheap used cars it will never happen because the batteries are dead after ten years. So millions won’t be able to enjoy motoring at all.
As for “technology is improving all the time”, yes it is but one normally doesn’t put the cart before the horse. You don’t buy a crap iPhone now because in five years making ones should be available
Copperpot, I will repeat my post, incase you missed it.
After digesting it, please advise wether you had the contact 5 years ago, or 2 months ago.
Copperpot, just one more nail in your fictional world.
You told us 2 months ago, your source was a mystery banker you happened to have just met in a london coffee shop.
Yet in your latest ramblings to me, you told us you bought shares 5 years ago in upl on the advice of your source and tipped them 6 months ago
tipped them here around six months ago @ 0.5p, they were 3.35p at close yesterday. And guess what needalife.....they were recommended to me by my source that you reckon is fiction.
My old mum, always said to be a liar you need a good memory.