“No Bricks, No Glass, No Cement” – What Net Zero 2050 Demands According to Government-Funded Report
By Paul Homewood
No bricks, the walls and foundations made of compacted earth, cement made from clay and glass scavenged from demolition skips are just some of the construction changes needed to comply with Net Zero by 2050. The latest paper from Government-funded U.K. FIRES looks to “minimise new construction”, and notes the shape of the urban environment will change, allowing for “denser living and reduced transport needs”.
The latest U.K. FIRES paper seems to have slipped out quietly at the end of last year and has to date attracted little publicity. But the group, which comprises a number of academics led by Cambridge engineering professor Julian Allwood, made headlines around the world recently with previous work noting that all flying and shipping must stop by 2050, beef and lamb must be banned, and only 60% of energy will be available to cook food and heat homes. The group, which receives £5 million from Government sources, is interesting because it bases its recommendations on the brutal, and many would argue honest, reality of absolute Net Zero. It does not assume that technological processes still to be perfected or even invented will somehow lead to minimal disturbance in comfortable industrialised lifestyles. It could be further argued that its continued existence and pronouncements are important, since they highlight the dishonesty and deceit that surrounds many other Net Zero promoters.
U.K. FIRES sees the future of construction based on stone, earth and timber, along with components “reused and repurposed” from demolition. Recycled steel, cement and bricks can be used, although this will be “constrained” – rationed might be a better word – by a supply of “non-emitting electricity under high demand”. Transformational construction changes will take longer to achieve, state the authors, but the U.K.’s ambitious target of a 45% reduction in emissions by 2030, “can only be achieved through reduced material demand”.
Read the full post here.
Trackbacks
Comments are closed.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
But carbon dioxide has negligible effect on the weather.
No comment
I guess we’ll just have to start building houses out of rough hewn stone – again. My 18th century house is constructed from rough sandstone blocks. Should I get a 100% reduction in council tax for having a Net Zero building? If I get the cement render removed, I will be fully Absolute Zero compliant, but I will need to apply for exemption from the Energy Performance Certificate, because solid stone is not the most efficient of insulating materials!
We just need a really cold windless winter with electricity blackouts, food shortages with rationing and many deaths from hypothermia, then maybe the penny will drop…Net Zero is a green dream, CO2 is a beneficial trace gas.
“…the penny will drop…”
Afraid a penny in the meter, on the most optimistic view, will not provide much warmth in the Brave New World.
It is a fair bet that the sheeple of the West will not remove their heads from the sand; while the religious maniacs will continue to dance in their rapture until they fall down in an exhausted heap. And that is all there is to say, because how it will end we cannot imagine.
The end is net zero money. The people will have less and less money so businesses will steadily collapse as their sales do. The newly jobless won’t be able to find jobs as the economy contracts. The banks will become inundated with houses through repossessions as mortgages are defaulted on. The government’s income will collapse as corporation tax, VAT and income tax returns plummet so government debt will soar in tune with the UK credit rating plunging. The point is how far in this downward spiral to oblivion the UK will go before there is any attempt to stop it.
Net zero leads to a Dystopian future for people, but that is the plan! It just depends how long it takes for the people to realise their destiny is poverty and early death. Democracy does not look like the way forward, in UK all the main parties are all for net zero, the chance of the Reform Party getting any seats is low, with our first past the post system. Mind you the greens only have one seat.
Civil disobedience is starting, with the vandalising of LTN and ULEZ cameras and bollards. It can only get a lot worse, at some point the riots will start, maybe during the up and coming blackouts, with the high cost of living theft and looting are bound to increase. My wish is that the U-turn comes soon, and a severe winter would be the catalyst, otherwise it is going to be hell for the next 5 years.
So, when I’ve joked in the past about the gov et al. wanting us to return to living in mud huts, use horse and carts, etc – I was actually on the money.
It turns out that ‘Planet of the Apes’ was really a documentary.
I am just about to release my fabulous new range of Hair shirts. Various slogans available;
” I am dying to save the Planet”
” Who needs an economy?” and
“Cold, Poor, Sick but happy”
Available in all sizes. State whether you want the de luxe “extremely prickly” hair version or the standard “pretty scratchy” version.
“Soylent Green” coming to your 15 minute urban gulag – a sample of medja advertising messaging to come…
Where is the timber coming from for any – I stress any – development in this dystopian setting? Mass planting of, say. a fast growing single specie to supplant fields which will be formerly used for food….love to see the biodiversity report for that – how many animal and plant life species will these EkoKommisars be content to sacrifice for their alleged ‘well thought out” blx?
Will we have Timber Wars – occupation of slow growth forests by EkoWarriors securing supply?
IAMMMMW.
So the construction of houses will be stone and mud solid walls because its best for the environment and climate. But my 19th century house is penalised under the EPC scheme for being constructed in just this way.
I just love the joined up thinking in this stupid process.
Sea-ice is a little slow to melt in the Arctic, this spring.
Not a single cyclone in the World so far in 2023.
Sunspot cycle 25 may be ending early, and perhaps the bendy jet streams will disappear with it.
A funny sort of climate crisis isn’t it? When nothing special happens.
yes, but it will happen ANY moment!
Sorrry to burst your balloon, Dave, but cyclones occur every year in Australia. Just about a month or so ago, we had cyclone Ilsa pass over the north-west coast of WA, causing the usual sort of damage and flooding. Not exactly climate change, because they are a regular feature. But your statement is a little exaggerated.
I recall watching a chap on Grand Designs building a huge cob house – after he’d already built a few smaller versions. It was soon apparent why his method of building was not cost-effective when it comes to mass home-building.
But what do we know>
So we must build mud huts, greens only may apply. Just shows how ridiculous Net Zero is. Especially as CO2 doesn’t cause global warming and is at a level in the atmosphere that has only been lower ONCE in 600 million years of geological history.
‘Rammed earth, which can be used for foundation screeds and walls, is said to be a proven and potentially zero emission alternative, “which can utilise abundant local materials”.’
What a wonderful (or should it be wonder-fall ?) alternative!
All those newly built multi storey car parks filled with battery powered cars. Excellent. And then there’s all those high-rise tower blocks that have become all the rage sadly.
What on earth could possibly go wrong ?
Hi, Paul, I see them daily mail is blaming the sand erosion at hemsby on “sea level rise”….but the story in 2013 was different……Hemsby beach has been subject to intermittent erosion ever since large scale offshore dredging has been ongoing since the 1970’s at the rate of over 10,000,000 metric tonnes of take every year. Over seventy bungalows have already been lost along with 150 metres of fronting dune over the last 20 years. Prior to dredging, the beach and dunes were accreting. The rate of erosion varies, but this past year has seen a huge increase, alerting the concern of the many that have bungalows or businesses now seriously threatened. Some fifty bungalows are currently within 8 metres of the sea with a third of them only 4 metres from the dune edge…..mariner.org.uk. check it out
Lloyd.
Any links to the 2013 report?
No, sorry Paul, but this article is of interest.
https://www.marinet.org.uk/campaign-article/marinet-briefing-paper
Lloyd.
And this, Paul. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15220612-400-crumbling-away-is-dredging-the-villain-in-the-drama-of-britains-eroding-coasts/
Lloyd.
Thanks Lloyd
Is there a link to the new Mail article?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/03/losing-your-home-is-a-massive-thing-how-the-climate-crisis-came-to-norfolk
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-12024625/The-areas-flash-floods-rising-rivers-crumbling-coasts-mean-home-insurance-IMPOSSIBLE.html
I wonder how much the idiotic mad professor Julian Allwood pays himself out of the wasted £5million he is paid by our similarly mad government ?
But most normal people don’t want to be sardines and not travel anywhere
>>denser living and reduced transport
You might have to reopen Skara Brae for new tenants.
Concrete buildings will still be built. Just not in GB.
The Left’s drive to eradicate history will result in little notice of the end of the once great nation.
Everyone(well, not EVERYONE) appears to be going mad.
How will we dig out the huge quantities of ‘earth’ required and HTF do you make cement from clay? Even the romams used cement! So all new houses will look like some thing from Africa and as of course you wont be able to build high you will have to build out… all over arable land. And what about the water required? And who will do all of this as after the WEF have got their way there wont be enough labour to do this all by hand. I know I’m wasting my time even commenting as none of us here will live long enough to see the shitshow that society will become.
“No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!”
I especially like the Roman reference. Another great nation that ended, in part, due to decadence.
Indeed! I hadn’t thought of that.
Social engineering, which should worry all of us.
Here you go:
Click to access Absolute_Zero_Report.pdf
Utterly insane!
“There will be zero emissions in Camelot!” – Lerner & Loewe
“…led by Cambridge engineering professor Julian Allwood,…”
A fine example of nominative determinism.
“…nominative determinism…”
I had to look that up – “The (strange) belief that your name determines or reveals what you are. ”
Oddly, there are studies which show that your name influences what other people think you are; and this in turn can affect your self-image.
‘David’ is noble, ‘Dave’ is perhaps not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_the_Barbarian
The only sensible response to this is to assume that the whole nonsense will be abandoned before it actually gets as bad as that. Otherwise there will be some sort of revolution. What we need now is a political party or leader with the courage to say “You know what, this is all insane”.
Let’s hope that happens sooner rather than later
It strikes me that there are now a number of things conspiring against this tomfoolery.
In no particular order, they are: Global scepticism, over 50% of the population no longer believe it; lack of natural resources necessary to build all the wind turbines, solar panels, grid extensions, battery powered vehicles etc; the lack of co-operation of the climate as the effects of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation which has already entered its negative phase become so evident that even the most convinced “climate scientist” is no longer able to ignore them; unintended consequences such as the necessity of natural gas to provide the fertilisers necessary to feed over half the planet and plenty more where they came from.
This will not prevent the idiots causing serious problems of course but it can’t go on for ever, their time is running out.
The 3 little pigs!
Is the UN the big bad wolf!
By Royal Appointment. I can’t wait to see swear allegiance next Saturday. Maybe I’ll just swear.
Yet another avoidable example of crazy Greenery.