Bring on the nuclear power, that’s what I say. And be quick about it.
Conditions in our house in the last 24 hours have provided a chilling preview of what life will be like in a few years’ time when we have run out of affordable energy and the Russians have turned the gas off.
The coldest day (and night) so far of this year’s winter coincided with the failure of our central heating and hot water boiler. The temperature inside the house rapidly declined to a point at which leaving the fridge door open would probably have warmed things up.
As well as a sample of a rather unattractive possible future, it provided a touch of nostalgia as well.
Younger readers will not have experienced the days before central heating and double glazing, but in our house it brought back childhood memories of the days when you relied on plenty of eiderdowns and a hot water bottle to stop the shivering as you got into bed, and woke in the morning to find frost on the inside of the bedroom windows.
Bring on the nuclear power. Otherwise the only possible way we might make the energy last is for us all to be a bit more sensible and stop wasting so much of it, but there can’t be a snowball’s chance of that happening.
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