Comments on: two steps forward, three backwards… http://carbonlimited.org/2007/09/27/two-steps-forward-three-backwards/ low carbon energy and engineering Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:14:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Stamp Duty Exemption scuppers Code Level 6 « carbon limited http://carbonlimited.org/2007/09/27/two-steps-forward-three-backwards/#comment-338 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:40:48 +0000 http://carbonlimited.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/two-steps-forward-three-backwards/#comment-338 [...] DSI has been revised following my post last week. My concerns at the time were that the Stamp Duty Exemption would undermine the most cost [...]

]]> By: housebuilders, be careful what you wish for « carbon limited http://carbonlimited.org/2007/09/27/two-steps-forward-three-backwards/#comment-337 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:54:09 +0000 http://carbonlimited.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/two-steps-forward-three-backwards/#comment-337 [...] given that it appears the Treasury is trying to make it much harder (and more expensive) to officially go carbon neutral, it’s likely that developers are going [...]

]]> By: Mel Starrs http://carbonlimited.org/2007/09/27/two-steps-forward-three-backwards/#comment-336 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:30:08 +0000 http://carbonlimited.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/two-steps-forward-three-backwards/#comment-336 Couldn’t agree more, and thought exactly the same thing when I looked at it when it came out initially. Since then, as Mark Brinkley among others has pointed out, the case for small on-site generation is crumbling. Yet the legislative and economic instruments necessary to make mid-size generation work aren’t there. Another problem with all this is that consultants working on the scale of,say, a block of flats, are not necessarily best equipped to deal with mid-size generation schemes, adding yet another party to what is becoming an unwieldy design team. Not that that means we shouldn’t do it, but it’s worth remembering to get the right people for the right job and not trying to step too far over each of our areas of expertise.

An aside – To the mysterious Matthew who is currently flooding our little corner of the blogosphere with comments – who are you? Do you have a blog? Would like to hear more about your approach (which I take is more along Lomborg’s lines than I might argue). If you’d like to do a guest spot, let me know. Cheers

]]> By: Matthew http://carbonlimited.org/2007/09/27/two-steps-forward-three-backwards/#comment-335 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:16:51 +0000 http://carbonlimited.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/two-steps-forward-three-backwards/#comment-335 Adapted from a talk by Bjorn Lomborg:

If you were a New Orleans property developer in 1990, would you spend your money on developing zero-carbon homes, or would you spend it on flood defences?

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