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Originally Posted by Taf
It was not too long ago that HMG was going-on about home gas boilers being used to generate electricity.
There were surveys done in several local gardens in out area with probes placed at various depths in the soil. The outcome was a definite NO to heat pumps being a good idea around here. The survey was done by a consortium of heat pump manufacturers and installers.
And one family got told to remove the windmill they erected in their back garden. And only after a few weeks. No-one I talked to ever heard any noise at all. But the complaints were found to come from bird lovers.
The local housing associations have been very good at fitting solar panels, but all the output is sold to the grid. The council thought about them, then after paying a fortune for consultants, the idea was dropped (as has their plan to change all street lights to LED).
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Nobody’s talking about ground source heat pumps any more - air source pumps are as efficient now as ground source ones were a decade ago, and they have the advantage of not destroying your garden or needing a 100 metre deep borehole under your patio.
There’s nothing remotely controversial about the technology - they are to all intents and purposes the same as the air-con units you see mounted on the back of every office and large shop in the country. A big fan and a compressor, designed to collect heat from one environment and shunt it to another.