A major new grant scheme to replace gas boilers in England and Wales has got off to a slow start, government figures released on Thursday show.
Under The Boiler Upgrade Scheme households can apply for vouchers to help them switch to a heat pump.
Nope. Not interested. I have a perfectly efficient gas boiler. It’s like trading a perfectly efficient petrol vehicle for a milk float. People are starting to wise up to the green scam.
Why would I want to swap out a boiler for something less effective which also means I most likely have to change my heating piping/radiators, it’s noisier and doesn’t get as warm?
Yeah, I’ll stick to fossilised dinosaur farts thanks.
Same arguments apply to electric vehicles.
Why would I want to change to something objectively worse?
I’ll keep using dinosaur juice thanks.
Those dinosaurs sacrificed themselves, it would be disrespectful not to
There is a theory that oil and gas is not “fossil” at all. It just all got trapped when the Earth formed, either in the form of is now or resulting from chemical reaction due to great pressure and temperatures near to Earth’s core.
Otherwise the Sun’s outer gas giant planets had a lot of flora and fauna.
The only way they to make those things attractive is to jack up the price of everything else. It is truly an epic scam that we’re paying for.
Sticking with my 35 year old boiler. Serviced every year. Does the job very well. Heat pumps in a Northern European country in winter? These people are off their heads. Laws of thermodynamics anyone?
Heat pumps use a lot of electricity. Basically they are reverse air conditioners with additional water pumps.
If every home and business switched to heat pumps figure out how many extra windmills we would need. The current (see what I did there) situation of only just having a few power cuts would be a happy memory. And of course it would only make sense to put up the price of electricity. See EV charging and running costs.
In a city, with hundreds of thousands of heat pumps sucking heat out of the air, it is going to get a bit chilly. And all the heat pumps will be competing with each other for what little heat there is.
Nice for the feral polar bears though. Not so nice for EVs. They don’t like cold.
Air source heat pumps are less efficient the colder it gets. So why on Earth have one in a country where air temperature so often drops to single digit temperature and there is less energy to exchange from the air? Ground source makes more sense.
Hard to fit ground source heat pumps into a first floor tenement flat like mine here in Perth, Scotland. Probably a bit hard to fit an air source heat pump for that matter.
Guess I’ll just have to stick to the old gas boiler and not freezing to death in winter. *sigh*
I find it interesting that there are no plans to upgrade the electricity grid. The government want to make it compulsory for cars, domestic heating and anything else that they can think of to run on electricity while at the same time closing down power stations. Incidentally, I noticed that the wind turbines were stationary again this morning. Whether this is malice or just unbelievable stupidity, it isn’t going to work is it? If they think that Hancock had a hard time, just wait until everything is completely FUBAR and nothing works. Back in the 1970s we could just light candles and carry on. This time around, when everything is dependent on computers lierally nothing will work.
There are planning rules to these heat pumps. You need it at the rear f your property, attached to your house but at least 2 metres from your neighbours. I measured my back and I would have to get rid of my conservatory to put one in, lots of houses are smaller than mine so totally impractical. The noise is a continuous hum so will get on everyone’s nerves.
Wouldn’t work with mine, either. Same with solar panels.