I understand that in a few years every new build in the UK must have a GSHP (no gas boilers) and the goal is for every house to have something like it.
I think this manifesto is a piece of genius - I think I shall be studying :-)
I think this manifesto is a piece of genius - I think I shall be studying :-)
Makes sense for flats (or dense area of many leasehold houses, if that happens) where there's a management company holding your throat anyway, but otherwise I can't see how it works unless perhaps it was provided by the council (similar disadvantages, just more trust/better outcomes from complaints).
It's normal for temperatures in Scotland to dip below -5C over winter - do ASHPs not work at those temps?
How is every house builder going to afford a million quid borehole?
From what I've read through, replacing my boiler with a gshp would cost in the tens of thousands, not a million pounds.
Then all we need to do is start turning the natural gas into hydrogen - releasing just as much carbon dioxide as burning it does - and we've got a clean green hydrogen economy!
Is this something people do?
Up here you end up with the outdoor part freezing into a block of ice.
The problem is that the outdoor part has to be, well, outdoors, and that's where all the water is.
If the UK Government appears to be doing something "good for the environment" you can rest assured it's only because they've found a way to use it to siphon money out of the public purse.