Hugo McNestry

Several tables are set with individuals behind them waiting to be served. The tables have signs — Education, Sciences, Arts, Healthcare… no one is serving them. All of the servers are delivering piles of money to the table where WAR is sitting. Political cartoon is from the 1950s Nothing has changed.

It has been this way since time immemorial.
Spending a billion a day on a ‘not’ war.
Meanwhile, all you suckers can starve, die because you can’t afford healthcare or find new treatments for disease. And who the fuck needs education and arts?

We aren’t mad enough!!

While I still struggle with the absurdity of “saving the planet” and “price” in the same equation, I welcome the statement of the bleedin obvious…

Well… last week Farrage might have been cutting HP grants to pay for joining Trumps “special military excursion “ to Iran… but that’s apparently now changed as he’s discovered that even his own heroic lamppost flagging patriots don’t fancy the fight or the petrol hike…

I had a Samsung 16kw fitted in May and it’s been fine. One small glitch where a new valve failed causing the HP to try to heat the circuit to 45° as the tank circuit was cut off…But quickly replaced. Went with Homely cont. &Oct Agile. Have some panels and 5kw battery. Saving >20%
yoy and Scop >4.

Definitely agree on criticality of installer. The internal piping may be an issue. A wide bore to the DHW tank and main junction of heating circuit? Rads aren’t that expensive. I have a mix of sizes in a 1910 semi d and fitted a HP inMay, it’s just great about one year in. So comfortable & cheaper.

So … if UK spends some money on eco stuff it can stop worrying so much about the strait of Hormuz…and stop giving money to Putin… (yes I know there is fossil fuel embedded in imported goods, fertiliser etc). A target should be just eliminate gas from domestic heating?

A screeching U-turn from the BBC… it’s now apparently, not controversial to talk about heat pumps… but a welcome one.

How OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY is going so far:

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Mic drop…

Time for change… imagine having a lawyer for PM but this regime giving the rich such effective immunity… and worse.

Inspirational…

Can only be a mattter of time before Farage leaves the Reform rats in a sack to return to the purity of his own company brand?

And while she try’s to hit the Student Loan issue with effective consistent questions, that Starmer ignores (his failure) she then “floods the zone” with this nonsense… pretty depressing stuff all around…actually Davy was the best of them…

That’s an interesting point! If the wind is pushing against the fan then that needs to be addressed. So a fence/shield seems a logical idea or reorientation the pump 90°?
A meter or two should be fine in front? Maybe plant a (cold friendly) hedge?

O° F or C is way above absolute zero (c-270°C). So if you think of the warmth / energy in air as the thickness of a sheet of paper… when it’s cold it’s like rice paper and needs to be folded a few more times than when it’s warmer and like card…folding them both to get to the same temp /thickness?

Closing the spark gap will help, needs to be addressed. Nothing is as black and white as typically presented. So I get it that HPs require expertise &financing. I come at this from my experience which is a good one so far. It the country doesn’t have to buy gas it is a sovereignty enhancing move.

But if it’s a good investment then why can’t the government fund this with loans or other financing. Because as you say you need to have up front cash up to c£10k and the majority won’t have that.

About that and with about £1k pa saving on current run rate that’s c 10year payback. As its a tax free 10% it’s a good enough return. The £2k elec heaters will cost c an extra £1k prob more? pa so in the same 10 years the cash is the same or likely more? With a less comfortable living environment.

Oh! And it’s significantly cheaper. 20-30%. The noise is whisper quiet and at its loudest when everyone’s windows will be firmly shut at very cold temperatures. I’m in London and there’s quite a bit of ambient noise 24/7…

I had a number of suppliers review my 1910 semi. Eventually one worked. And, about a year in, we’re very happy with it. The even, constant, comfortable temp is a noticeable step up from gas.
It needs a smart, imaginative, knowledgeable operator. Some “rules” are overkill. But we had a DHW tank…

I would, at the drop of a hat replace Starmer if I thought it could be fast and there was a credible candidate. Perhaps one that ditched the tax promise/straight jacket and stopped making screw ups. But I just can’t see one or how it could happen.

Starmer has been massively disappointing. It is always tempting to believe that their is a perfect person installed in a swift transition getting us to where we want to be… The reality would be messy

Be careful what you push for…

When No 10 should just shut up and hear McDonald out they come out with this nonsense…

He’s certainly appears to be ignoring some crucial people in his process; his MPs, his civil servants and the domestic agenda/voters. Abdicating policy to others (the Try?) by someone whose (moral?) compass should be the guiding hand is making it like a random pogo stick in a field of cow pats..

But you make a fair point that some expertise is required. Gas has allowed plumbers to move to quasi heating engineers without much of any understanding the theory. The gas just pumps out inefficient heat. That damages the planet, lines oligarchs pockets and occasionally blows up.

We don’t know how faulty the install was (the council suggested “user training “ as a remedy), but even a gas boiler system can be screwed up. And… I have yet to hear of a heat pump explosion. I may have missed it. So while a HP system may be faulty/underperform it’s unlikely to be catastrophic?

If it was “Aberdeen Council made my life miserable by insisting I used a heating system that left me cold” then that would have been fine by me. It was lazy to seem to pin it on “heat pumps”? The article, in fairness did refer to radiators being too small and tenants not using the system properly.

You titled your post “the illusion of heat pumps” ?
The journalist failed to understand why it wasn’t working and suggested that heat pumps are supposed to be efficient and cheaper but they’re not. Had she spoken with a heating engineer she might have understood why the failure.

Reasons may include;
Design, set up, small rads, pipe sizing (I have a floor with microbore pipes that work), the wrong size pump, controls user ( it works best to be on typically all/most of the day rather than 2 hrs in the morning and say 4 hours evening). Heat pumps work but poor systems don’t.