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It would be interesting to know what the expected electricity cost would be in that alternative scenario you propose. Presumably the carbon capture costs are still fairly heavy compared to historic cost.

Further, it would be interesting to see the cost comparison vs. China and USA for example. To have any discussion about an industrial future in the UK and Europe, that's not just around the margins, this needs to be understood.

I stringly believe that energy is at the core of the economy, even in more post industrial economies, and the route to net zero will have such a heavy weight on our future direction to prosperity....or the opposite

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Well done for cranking out those shocking numbers! I note that other analysts have estimated the cost of Net Zero to be in the trillions, not just the hefty billions, e.g. Michael Kelly: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/michael-kelly-the-green-energy-net-zero-plan-will-require-a-command-economy/.

The sad reality is that the entire Net Zero endeavour is pointless and futile and has nothing to do with climate. The falsity of the establishment climate change narrative is obvious to any critical thinker, as is the ulterior motive of using it as a trojan horse to impose tyrannical one-world governance.

In a recording made in 2015 around the time of COP21, Christopher Monckton described how the United Nations has been the main leader of the climate change scan, lying and cheating about global warming since 1992, focused always on working towards undemocratic one-world governance. Yet here we are in 2024, post their evil Covid “plandemic”, allowing them to get closer and closer to their objective. https://twitter.com/juneslater17/status/1760726882641924278?t=gfMzasXhJNboh5VyNkVpPA&s=19.

All our treasonous Con/Lab/Lib/SNP Uniparty politicians are complicit in this ulterior agenda. The essential first step to getting out of this mess is for people to stop voting for Uniparty politicians.

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I have not estimated the capital cost of Net Zero, I have estimated the annual cost of electricity.

The capital cost will definitely be in the trillions. The capital cost of that electricity generating system alone exceeds £1 trillion, and that doesn't account for the cost of converting all buildings to heat pumps, converting industry to carbon free heat. upgrading the electrical systems for most of the houses and installing millions of electric car chargers.

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