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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?
By downfield, 2 weeks ago
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I must confess to not understanding the need to justify the business case for investing in renewables. What other capital expenditure is subject to the same scrutiny? What's the business case for buy... | ||
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RE: Electricity price predictions
By Scalextrix, 2 weeks ago |
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I love a little bit of anarchy, people producing their own power and and heat, thereby removing influence from big oil is something I love to see. | ||
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By JamesPa, 2 weeks ago |
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I have heard of many people with a weakness for new cars, rather few for new vans. Mine is a pint or several, probably as costly averaged over a lifetime. | ||
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By JamesPa, 2 weeks ago |
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I said (or at least meant) a problem not the problem and are that the other matters you mention are also problems, quite likely bigger. As you say it all adds up to a significant hurdle. We still are... | ||
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By Temperature_Gradient, 2 weeks ago |
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I don't see misinformation about heat pumps as the problem, the problem is the affordability and the disruption from installation, they're undoubtably much better for the environment but with typical ... | ||
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RE: How Do I Know When the Hot Water Has Run Out?
By dgclimatecontrol, 2 weeks ago |
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I'm surprised that its almost impossible to know what temperatures you have in the cylinder. with complex electronics controlling these systems it should be easy to 'Know' what temperature it is at th... | ||
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RE: How Do I Know When the Hot Water Has Run Out?
By GrahamF, 2 weeks ago |
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@judith thanks for your thoughts on this. It is interesting how you vary the settings, depending on who is in the house. I have just increased our nightly hot water run from 1 to 1.5 hours. The tem... | ||
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By dgclimatecontrol, 2 weeks ago |
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@jamespa and my weakness is new cars and vans! But we don't smoke, drink or go on holiday. | ||
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By JamesPa, 2 weeks ago |
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I never buy new cars! 3 year old low mileage Niro, £k21. Somebody else can take the initial depreciation! Heat pump 6k after grant. 4kWp solar 14k (in 2011 - they were very expensive back then, but... | ||
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RE: Electricity price predictions
By JamesPa, 2 weeks ago |
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Which is another reason why renewables are such an existential threat to big oil, they can't control them because you can generate renewable energy almost anywhere, it's distributed not centralised. ... | ||
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
By JamesPa, 2 weeks ago |
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@dgclimatecontrol @drei There are some numbers for embodied carbon here from a source that is likely to be realitively unbiased. Whilst it us true that a heat pump has greater embodied carbon than... | ||
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RE: Electricity price predictions
By JulianC, 2 weeks ago |
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Another free hour of electricity if you are an Octopus customer (some caveats) 31st August at 2-3pm. As I’m on Octopus Agile Go, I get a free hour for the cars at any time. My Octopus referral code ... |
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