SteamyTea

What heat pump you got and how large is your PV now? I have a spreadsheet that needs more data.

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It shouldn't. While water is often the blowing agent for PU resins, the oxygen gets stripped of the two hydrogen atoms. The free oxygen and hydrogen atoms then combine with carbon atoms that have a free electron. Then you get a mix of CO, CO2 and CH4. Why you are told to keep the area well ventilated. Thermoplastics use hydrazine, much more fun.

Have you read this?

11:25 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001p7d5 Was Lord William Haughty (labour). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Haughey,_Lord_Haughey

Trouble is in the UK, the politicians and general public's understanding of science is so poor, they could not get a project like this off the ground. Just today, on PM, there was a bloke who sells ASHP telling Evan Davis that they don't work in Scotland, use more electricity and cost more to run. I don't think Evan Davis believed him.

With all the serious illness above, it makes worry about an urban fox rather trivial. Giles' Grandmother sorted it.

Isn't that the least efficient though, usually only capturing around half of the CO2. There is an energy cost to doing it as well. And globally there is only 0.1% captured. That is lost in generation variation. I can save a thousands of my energy usage (about 3 kWh) by using my oven for 3 days less a year. CCS has been talked about for decades, all are still just trial sites. Cheaper to build a solar farm.

Won't we do the same to them. The British built the Hong Kong power system after all. The Americans have STUXNET and seem to know how to get it onto networks.

Why, reduces energy usage. Mainly because he has 3 properties and could well afford to do a simple and cheap loft upgrade. That fits in with your But they don't need more, they need to loose less. That is what we vote for though. All that information is already reported to the government. You can get the spreadsheet from the ONS if you want to. Not really, the utility value to the nation is very different. But we have seen that people will still travel when fuel prices double. So there is a lot of slack to be taken up there.

I know very little about them, Cornwall is not a target area. I am sure that there are top members that will have a transition plan though. Was chatting to the guy who owns net door. About 2003/4, he got a free loft insulation installed in all 3 of his properties. This strikes me as wrong. The easy way to do it is that gas can only be supplied if your property uses, based on meter readings, less than a fixed delivered amount i.e. 70 kWh.year-1.m-2 (or whatever). Then it is up to the home owner what to do i.e. sell up and move, upgrade.

Which people. Most cannot understand their electricity bill. I don't think unreliable is the right word. They perform as expected for the weather conditions. Were does the 'instantly' bit come from. It has never been about just swapping over one night.

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Not essential, but could get installers out of a hole. This idea of limiting a heat pump via software is what Tesla (and other car makers) do. Reminds me of the Top Gear rant about cheese and Ferrari.

Seems that our government, as I predicted, has just about abandoned all the environmental proposals by issuing 100 new oil and gas extraction licences and is going to rely on carbon capture and storage. I think I shall get a wood burner as well.

I have often thought that modular design would be a good idea with heat pumps.

Yes. We have to stop burning carbon based fuels. Have you not seen the news this last month.

I just jumped though Today, from yesterday, was not Gove saying it, or Kevin McClot. There was a lot of stuff on the radio about housing and climate yesterday, so I am sure it is in there somewhere. I only picked up on it when they started talking about deaths from hypothermia, so missed part of the context.

Does any of it matter, I think this government is going to drop most of the 'green' policies. There was someone on the radio yesterday, Gove, I think, pointing out that more people die from the cold than the the heat, so a bit of global warming will be good for the UK. If we do have a really cold winter, we can always fill the empty seat on the Rwanda flights with pensioners.

That is a bugger.

Is this for your current place?

If heat pumps get stolen, and replaced with new units by the insurance companies, then that is a good thing. It means the insurance companies are helping to pay for installations. HPs are not like stolen cars, they are not used once and then burnt out.

The wiring is the most likely thing to start a fire and earthing does not always prevent that.

In a very rare alignment of electrical disasters you get a shock.