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@wreckguru Just skim read - 1 typo - Blurb = Bulb? 😁 Otherwise great - could you possibly add your kwh use since installation? But @editor ...
@cathoderay The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that. Oh my... I hear you. This is a part of the problem. I think. ...
@jamespa Landlords should be compelled, over a period of (say) 10 years starting soon, to replace gas boilers with heat pumps. Its clear tha...
@transparent Living in a rural area does offer significant advantages.Neighbours usually have meaningful conversations.When you're asked "How are y...
@sunandair So in our village by far the greatest occupier group who own a heat pump at this moment in time is the council rental occupier within th...
@jamespa Oh you absolute star. Thank you for this - I shall read it in depth later (instead of using it as a 'displacement activity' when I'm supposed...
@toodles Oh, thank you for that. Shall put him on my list of people to interview for the low income section (He did the same postgrad journalism cours...
@sunandair Theres a lot going on here in this post Lucia... can you help me understand your thoughts a bit better. Where has your research taken yo...
Just adding this quote from Clem Cowton, Director of External Affairs, 🐙 : "A stark lesson from the US for energy policy in the UK: You don’...
@jamespa Is it corruption, or is it a civil service and politicians who simply aren't sufficiently technical and thus rely on industry to tell them ...
@editor Carlos from the Swedish Energy Agency, he mentioned that boilers are taxed so heavily there that they’re unaffordable, making heat pumps th...
@editor I just watched it! The Planet Devices guy nailed it - there's so much data that HP companies obscure and it shouldn't be like that. It should ...
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