SteamyTea

No, just edited to make things out of context. Too many people think the world is offended, used to be called 'the white man's burden'.

Post it up.

She may finger your doorbird. In front of you.

Here she is for you.

That would be 'call girl'. Just think of that next time you get a cold caller. When I come around I am going to hold this up to the camera.

Or a much cheaper option is to top up E7/10 stores, which is already done, and pay people to take the power. I take it you could not be bothered to read the report I posted up. Why let facts and figures get in the way if an opinion.

You must be pretty practical (though I know someone that does stain glass work who isn't at all). Have you considered building it yourself. It is just a wind and water tight box, with a few holes in it after all.

I think some of the problem with internal GSHPs is that there is solid pipe between the pump and the manifold. A Kensa install I looked at had flexibles fitted. While you could hear it when standing next to it, was silent once one was outside the plant room. Are these noisy ASHPs old ones that are non inverting types? It used as bike stands?

Try putting the sketch against a wall, then take a picture. It could be that the orientation sensor is confused. It iCrapple does not always 'just work'.

Cancel the DD till it is sorted.

Or use SAMBA. Works from within Windows Explorer as a mapped drive. https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/40974/access-network-samba-share-from-pi-client

I use WinSCP to move files between the PC and my RPis. https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/winscp_portable Not even installed as such, just runs from a local drive.

Welcome. I think you will be teaching us more. Regarding air testing, you can make up your own unit with a car radiator fan, a speed controller, a clear water pipe and a calculator. Are you going with a borehole for the GSHP?

What is your Current Cost monitor reporting. If you set the clock it will give an indication of when the energy is used.

@joe90 Can't you just turn off the heating control so it never calls for heat? I got a new mate that is learning all about ASHPs and stuff. He would fiddle with it till it was bust.

Only income when the asset (shares) is converted to cash. And the only if it is not reinvested.

I hope they have convinced their investors that it is best. I see this sort of thing as just a scheme for taking money of the wealthy and giving it to the not quite so wealthy.

https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/topic/20085-ovo-heat-trial-preliminary-design/

I think there is another thread about the Ovo trial.

Have you already got a heating system in that uses microbore? Do you know how to do thermal calculations for a house?

While humans, that are currently alive, are part of the Earth's ecosystem, we have to treat ourselves differently. We are probably the only animal that is aware of our mortality, and what can cause and can be done to change it. One of the questions that needs to be answered is how responsible we need to be to future generations of all species , that may, or many not exist, while at the same time blaming, or not blaming, past generations of humans that got us to where were are. The trouble with this sort of philosophical question is that it easily gets into a loop, and all examples are generally extremes, the reality or idealist argument. These get us nowhere. I can well understand people wanting to build a better world for current generations, and being the optimist I am, I think we are on the correct track, I am not so sure if we need to do more for unborn generations. There may be, in the future, a global paradigm shift in attitudes to population levels, or some extra-terrestrial global threat without sufficient warning. It would be a shame to dismantle much of the good in our current economy just when it was needed, and could make a very low cost improvement. Think medical innovations and relocating climate refugees to better designed homes. This is not my area of environmental science, I just had to spend a long year with people that were concerned about it. One thing that did struck me early on, was that they tend to be idealists and alarmists, while often missing the big picture. One was involved in returning a lake into a 'better shape'. it was hard to pinpoint exactly what that meant, but seemed to be returning it to its pre-1930s state. I suggest that a few barrels of arsenic and some lead would help that along, but he wanted Daphnia pulex and brown trout, the thugs of the river systems. Humans have the ability to adapt very fast to a changing environment, just look at how quickly some places recover after a natural disaster (Japan) and how fast we can also recover after a man-made disaster (Europe after WW2). I don't how much we should be concerned for, what is in reality, small scale ecological degradation. I can remember kayaking in the Thames in the mid 1970's when dead fish were floating on the surface. We cleaned that up pretty quickly, while at the same time as cleaning up our combustion technologies that were causing acid rain in the Scanwegian countries (this is contentious even today as some of the lakes may have been locally polluted). So I think we do have enough knowledge to know what we can, and can't get away with. Acting on it is a different matter. I am not sure if this is desirable. We tend to be using legacy technologies, think heating systems and transport. We would be better off dumping them (well recycling some of the cheaper to reclaim elements) than repairing them. It is the same with many consumer parts. If we redesigned them to be made repairable, we would probably end up with inferior products, that are more costly to make, with the need for a stock of spare parts distributed and stored around the world, using more energy. My Kindle probably has a lower mass than the motherboard in my old DX4-100, the fuel injection on my car is certainly better, and more reliable, than the carburettor on my old MGB (the last carburettor car I had). I binned my old toaster when it failed, just use the grill in the oven, so I in effect, had two toasters. Mass production, in the cheapest places that can make things, is the way to go (division of labour and competitive advantage). We have international standards for employment and environmental issues as part of global trading (not always adhered to, and less likely to be adhered to post BREXIT), but that is down to us to enforce them by not buying the goods, we can easily check where things are made, and how they are made, these days (though probably not on a DX4-100 PC that burned 300W on idle). Energy is an interesting one from an economics point of view. Should all energy be treated equally? If it should be treated equally, would that be on a global currency, say the US Dollar, or on a purchase price parity basis? I have always liked the idea of using energy as a global currency, with the MJ as the base unit. There would be lots of problems with this as some energy is better than others, this would mean we need an entropy adjuster, but that is not insurmountable and could be easily automated. Where the real problems come in is to do with food energy. Should this be priced (PPP or no) at the same as thermal energy, or electrical energy (or even elastic energy)? How would we deal with zero energy food product? Water is vital, but has no calorific value, would it be free, just the processing, transport and storage cost, or a quid a bottle 'because it comes from volcanic rock'. I think the trouble is if we move too fast down the renewables route, we would need to rely on governments subsiding technology, governments have never been good at picking 'winners'. Our government sold off the worlds most profitable telecommunications network though a public share option, then crippled it with restrictive practices. Governments really should be left to sort out the market failures and raise taxes to pay for them. Park benches are not that expensive.

He fitted one, but found he did not need to use it much, if at all. Was more as an insurance I think. I don't know why people find DHW co complicated. You either store it or not, if not, then you heat when needed.

This really comes down to if you think the ecosystems, other than the 'us' are more important that the current generation. I am not willing to support, what would amount to genocide of the current generations, to save current, non anthropogenic, ecosystems. Though there is a lot more we can do to make life better all round, those are the tings that need doing first. So renewable energy is top of my list, then transport, then more productive farming and food distribution, then medical improvements, and way down the list is manufacturing. Those are against a backdrop of education, which is the starting point of any change. Trouble is, we seem to have things backwards.

Jeremy soon found out that KISS works best.