Chris

… or we’ll eventually accept there’s no way of eliminating the domestic gas supply network any time soon and start pumping hydrogen into it. Domestic consumption accounts for a third of total use in the UK so homes aren’t even the major contributor and it’s not as if you can make a sudden large dent in that figure by transitioning one user.

My brother has an air source heat pump; at my last house my neighbour had one. All I can say is that I would never want to live in a street where every house has one. They’re quiet, but not that quiet. If we go down that route, I guarantee you a generation from now the recurring newspaper story will be streets blighted by noise pollution.