Post by toby1 on Dec 10, 2020 7:37:36 GMT -5
""Home energy use accounts for 14% of all the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and much of that comes from gas boilers. Each time you turn up the thermostat, the burning natural gas generates heat through the radiators – and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Some of that heat escapes the building and is wasted. Two-thirds of homes in the UK don’t meet energy efficiency standards, and decarbonising the UK’s leaky housing stock is one of the toughest tasks the government faces in its bid to make the country carbon-neutral by 2050. Heat pumps are widely seen as a solution, and the UK government has announced its aim to install 600,000 per year by 2028."""
All Pie on the sky folks, when I lived in the Netherlands they were forcing people to instal these things and forbidding them to be connected to the gas supply ! but Heat pumps just don't work as well as they should and you NEED a small windowed, massively well insulated house with small rooms to start with.
It got so bad for some of the poor sods in Holland that to keep warm when it was really cold during the winter they were buying teapot candles from Aldi and Lidl, (very cheaply), and putting them under plantpots, burning four or five or more at a time, to generate some warmth.
I wonder if they will make heat pumps compulsory ? I still say a wood burner with a water jacket is the way forward, wood is carbon neutral, it absorbs CO2 during it's life so when it is burned then it does create some CO2 but less then it has absorbed during it's life. Of course no painted or treated wood to be burned as I saw when I lived in a Danish seaside Summer House during the winter and I chopped up and burned a Railway sleeper that was washed up on the beach, the oil, grease, tar etc in that wood produced all the colours of the rainbow in the wood burner, burned all night too ! Naughty me !