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Given we have a long established perfectly functional and competitive air/air heatpump install market maybe we should just leave it alone. Ma...
"We shouldn't be expecting a DNO to change taps at a local substation in the meantime. " They've taken enough of our money to do it, if it's out of ...
Would disagree - you need both bits. Central management to understand trends and policy requirements. Local government to do effective enforcement o...
Occurs to me you might want to look at the videos by Andrew Till / Mr EV on youtube. He went with the electric heaters but lots of solar/batt...
@old_scientist I think not. If you gave me a billion pounds and I sprayed a giant area of virgin wall with black paint you wouldn't conclude from th...
A heat pump moves energy from A to B efficiently, especially if the differentials are low. Trying to generate electricity from heat is very different ...
And yet again oddly enough strengthening local government, funding it and getting building inspectors back and able to catch the offenders is not on t...
The problem you hit with batteries and electric radiators is they are 4 x less efficient than say an air/air heatpump. That means you need vastly bigg...
Even if they were an air/air system would be astronomically cheaper to run.
If you try and revise it they can definitely offer you less not more and this does happen. I don't believe they can withdraw an existing one however. ...
Nuclear was the best solution once - but probably isn't any more. Especially the mess we are making of it. It's IMHO too slow to build, too e...
We don't have a remotely independent judiciary. We never have. It's a posh gentlemens club operation shared with the top of the civil service and many...
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RE: Jokes and fun posts about heat pumps and renewables
@transparent I’ve heard that that is why American cars ...
By Toodles , 1 hour ago
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
Have either quote provided room by room heat loss calcu...
By Old_Scientist , 15 hours ago
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
@old_scientist if you are going DIY then you may wan...
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
After a short while that was followed by the 'power war...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: Samsung heat pump - data cable issue
That's well done. Cable is the correct type (LIYCY = 2x...
By bobflux , 2 days ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
I agree, we will find out at the next budget whether th...
By Old_Scientist , 3 days ago
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
@editor I went through HG website, so should be ok for ...
By sttpd1917 , 3 days ago
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Who did the Freedom Heat Pump cloud server and what did...
By Mars , 3 days ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
Reading between the lines of what octopus are doing wit...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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RE: Air to air bus grant installer anywhere
The through wall two hole ones have their place (listed...
By EtchedPixels , 3 days ago
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I hope it goes ok, Hon can be hard to set up IF the sof...
By Graham Hendra , 3 days ago
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@clockworks Hi, So there is a big difference between st...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 3 days ago
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@editor wellvery comprehensive answer. I will get all i...
By Keithb , 3 days ago
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RE: Advice on my Heat Pump Journey: Old Stone Built Detached Cottage
all good advice I will follow this up
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Heat of vaporization of water is 2.25 MJ/kg (0.625 kWh/...
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