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Your house sounds a lot like mine. 2 surveyors each spent 3 hours to declare the loss to be 16kW, my own calculations (using MCS assumptions) came ou...
Im a scientist/engineer by training, so in principle I hate branding bollox. Nevertheless I agree with you because I recognise that not everyone has ...
Thats true only if you do the wrong experiment. Done correctly (eg by plotting daily energy consumption vs daily mean OAT, or even just measuring ann...
I imagine it will have a catch tank otherwise it becomes a fixed appliance. Quatt do something possibly similar here I can definitely see that th...
Good plan. If you can get half hourly meter readings and, if your house temperature isnt moderately constant log indoor temperature if you have a sui...
@scrchngwsl Absolutely, productize and simplify. Quality and volume would go up, costs would go down, any plumber could do it given a change in the r...
The principle is sound and indeed its what I did. I think the challenge is making it a practical commercial proposition!
Worth a back of an envelope calculation. The specific heat capacity of water is 4.2 kJ/kgK. So if I heat at 20000 l tank by say 20C it takes 4.2*2...
@energystoragetech The heat capacity of some (many?) houses is pretty large, so there is a lot of smoothing. My house, for example, has a ...
Indeed. AI, at least the models we have access to, doesn't yet pass the Turing test!
Strictly same deltaT is the requirement for same flow rate. I think ufh systems are typically designed for DT5 or same as rads, but can't be certain.
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