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RE: Adding data centre electricity costs to domestic energy bills?
By Jeff, 20 minutes ago |
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| I should say my points are simply raised to test the for and against thoughts on this particular location. I have no ties to the area so it is an easy and hopefully useful input, nothing else. I perso... | ||
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
By JamesPa, 1 hour ago |
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| @rob-of-york Although the vast majority will be starting with a boiler that runs at a fixed high FT, so they will see benefits from a system upgrade (boiler or heat pump) involving WC, you are absolu... | ||
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
By cathodeRay, 1 hour ago |
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| Spot on. What we see here is you demonstrating the very considerable gains (comfort and others) set against modest pains (costs), thus achieving the magic double the gain vs the pain approach that neu... | ||
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
By Rob of York, 2 hours ago |
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| @cathoderay One of the ways that people overcome psychological (emotional) barriers is to experience something for themselves often via friends or people that they trust. I don't think the number of h... | ||
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
By cathodeRay, 2 hours ago |
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| I saw that Greenmatch page, but as you noted it mostly (not all, there are some links, but they are often dated and/or dubious) lacks sources. Its the old problem of everyone quoting everyone else wit... | ||
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
By Majordennisbloodnok, 2 hours ago |
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| My feeling (which could, of course, be way off) is a bit like repeating much of the above but from a different angle. Replacing a (non combi) gas boiler with an air to water heat pump as a straight sw... | ||
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RE: Adding data centre electricity costs to domestic energy bills?
By Jeff, 2 hours ago |
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| For anyone interested this is the UK current National position on the rollout of Data Centers in the UK that came out recently in October. The recent Data Centre Covenant Current draft of the nation... | ||
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
By JamesPa, 2 hours ago |
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| To answer that I think you have also to ask why would people install a heat pump? I can think of three reasons (1) Greater comfort - but this is not sold by the industry so doesn't count (2) Green min... | ||
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
By cathodeRay, 3 hours ago |
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| @hml1827 — thanks for your reply. The question you quote rather than the title of the thread is partly rhetorical, insofar as some of us here are trying to get more heat pumps installed, and that mean... | ||
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
By JamesPa, 3 hours ago |
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| It really shouldn't, but until the designed-to-fail system is fixed, it just might! I have been extremely pleased with my heat pump which has delivered a far superior level of comfort in my 1930s hous... | ||
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
By Rob of York, 3 hours ago |
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| There are a lot of statistics about boilers presented in an easy to digest form here: That said, there are no references to the origin of the data. It may be from "Global Market Insights" however, I ... | ||
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RE: Adding data centre electricity costs to domestic energy bills?
By Transparent, 5 hours ago |
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| Environmental issues: Xlinks say they'll fill their cooling water ponds from rainfall. And from where do they think we get our drinking water and keep the rivers flowing?! This area of Devon is sparse... | ||
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