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[Itshim]

Which room will you give up take a heatpump . And don't forget the water cylinder? Just asking

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

We definitely need to cut the link to expensive gas. I guess by better storage.

... Or by making UK Gas exploitation a sovereign enterprise, where we control the price of gas sold to the UK power industry.

Needs something different to be done to use the assets we have.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

... Or by making UK Gas exploitation a sovereign enterprise, where we control the price of gas sold to the UK power industry.

Needs something different to be done to use the assets we have.

Unfortunately, unlike Norway, it’s a bit late - why would the Oil/Gas companies invest in a declining market (as in the amount of oil/gas left in the North Sea) for reduced profits?

Interesting article about what Norway did right in the 60s and 70s…

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/2...norway-uk-oil/

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Originally Posted by Itshim

Which room will you give up take a heatpump . And don't forget the water cylinder? Just asking

The typical size of an air source heat pump is between 1 and 1.5m high and between 0.5 and 1m wide.

And usually goes outside the house, and re the buffer tank

The buffer tank may be similar in size to a hot water cylinder and to save space may be situated above or below the cylinder or integrated into one tall vessel. To save space a buffer tank could also be put in a loft or basement.

https://nef.org.uk/what-are-the-spac...rce-heat-pump/

...or it can just replace your existing hot water tank.

… 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.

[Carth]

My house is East/West facing, apparently not really the best to take advantage of Solar.

I looked at possibly getting a few panels with the idea it would help (slowly) long term . . . panels are cheap enough, converters and batteries aren't.

And in regards to an Air Source heat pump, it would be cheaper to knock the house down and rebuild it to suit

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Unfortunately, unlike Norway, it’s a bit late - why would the Oil/Gas companies invest in a declining market (as in the amount of oil/gas left in the North Sea) for reduced profits?

Interesting article about what Norway did right in the 60s and 70s…

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/2...norway-uk-oil/

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And usually goes outside the house, and re the buffer tank



https://nef.org.uk/what-are-the-spac...rce-heat-pump/

Have you seen the water tank , guess you don't remember warm air heating systems. They were the future.

Originally Posted by Itshim

Have you seen the water tank , guess you don't remember warm air heating systems. They were the future.

Not in the UK, they weren't - they were just a cheap method used by builders to cut costs, but to sell the house with "central heating" (my first bought house (in Thatcham in ‘84)) had that system; all it was was a column in the centre of the house distributing warm air thru vents at floor level in each connected.

Terrible system.

Originally Posted by Hugh

Not in the UK, they weren't - they were just a cheap method used by builders to cut costs, but to sell the house with "central heating" (my first bought house (in Thatcham in ‘84) had that system; all it was was a column in the centre of the house distributing warm air thru vents at floor level in each connected.

Terrible system.

And dangerous, when old and rickety, as my dad found out a year or two after buying a house in the late 80s that had one of these. The air pump started to overheat and smoke thanks to a build up of debris, and it blew the smoke round the entire house in double quick time. Thankfully the smoke alarm (for back then it was common only to have one, if you had one at all) was powered up and working.