From the Times Colonist (!) in British Columbia, Canada, today.
When a talented cartoonist gets drawn into a ferry fiasco , you know it’s bad.
Meanwhile back in Scotland, CalMac’s most recent data, 31 July 100% on time. Previous week, 100% every day unless you wanted to take the slow boat from Ayrshire to the Mull of Kintyre.
Cartoons about CalMac? Nothing from Camley at the Herald since 2019, that I can see.
His ‘talent?’
Really? Shit? Am I being unfair?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
There’s an interesting article in the Herald this morning on ferries – or catamarans to be precise. I’ve shared it to my TL and noticed The Grousebeater had quoted from it on Twitter. Worth a look. Of course it’s a dig at the SG but there’s a lot of reading between the lines to do.
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Pay attention!
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Problem is most people don’t read between the lines, that’s how propaganda is very effective. Unfortunately.
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Bob Lamont’s right, this is more about businesses trying to probably have Calmac privatised and broken up, you can bet your bottom dollar that only the profitable bits will survive, the rest well probably have to be either provided by Government or very heavily subsidised, most of the money will end up in shareholders bank accounts. Look no further than rail services, water etc in England. Deep hull vessels are much more versatile and can fill in service gaps much easier than Cats, and to be honest most service providers from Scandanavia downwards see it the same way.
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Ties in with the Heralds Poll a few weeks ago “Should CalMac be broken up”.
The final tally was not quite what the Herald wanted!
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Camley cartoons?
Had a go at Patrick Harvey over heat pumps seemingly supporting Labour Lord Haughey.
Haughey got ripped to shreds on the radio 4 PM program, after claiming electric boilers were cheaper and more efficient than heat pumps.
Heat pumps give 3-5 times more heat energy for electric energy input. Electric boilers are 1-1 ratio.
Countries with colder winters than us now install heat pumps in nearly every new build, with Norway/Finland/Switzerland 2/3rds heat pumps in all homes.
What is Haughey’s game? Extra profit I would guess.
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A unit of electricity is 48p/kWhr.
a unit of gas is 12p/kWhr.
Allowing for efficiency, gas is still cheaper than electricity for space heating.
Hence why a heat pump, driven by electricity can still be marginal, it depends where you pick up the heat from, ground or air.
Everyone seems to have forgotten the St Clair Gas field output, West of Shetland, that is supplying a Third of the gas used to generate electricity for the London area.It is ferried by gas tankers, it never sees Scotland, bought at World Price.
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Maybe we could make up a we check for this.
https://theferret.scot/trident-nuclear-project-watchdog/?fbclid=IwAR0JmHKjiQe19X-6R2vcwfAHZ4Kaf14Eza_TpQCiJm1OcD-YTah58auzISw
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Totally OT, but was curious what HMS were promoting (usual sign is HYS open) and lo and behold “Are Scotland’s heat pump plans threatening to boil over?”, carrying on the ‘have a go at Harvie’ theme for this week https://archive.ph/x255z
A key plank of bringing down emissions, and on which the viability of heat pumps depend, is high levels of thermal insulation and cheap electricity – This is a huge problem for HMG, who have a long history of blocking a national campaign to insulate properties and keeping energy prices high, lest it would reduce revenues to the Treasury.
Naturally all the heavy lifting in the article is done by innuendo, backed up by the distortions of Lord Haughey such as heat pumps won’t work in Scotland or the sublimely stupid “some liable to malfunction at temperatures of minus 5C (23F) or lower” which will have hundreds of thousands of Swedes and Norwegians blinking in disbelief.
I greatly suspect what Harvie is up to is to push insulation back onto the public stage against a distinctly hostile fossil fuel lobby and a greedy Treasury, hence all the ‘heat-pump’ scare stories and eye-popping costs quoted…
I really do wish him the best of luck on this, it would be progress indeed to embarrass the hell out of WM over it.
As I’ve exampled multiple times before, if I can halve my annual gas consumption by adding insulation on a 10 year old house, paid for by reduced bills in the first 3 months of winter, anybody can….
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