air source heat pump has a low running cost. That is not true. It takes 1kWh of energy to produce 2 kWh of heat. This is not informative, this is half thuths and hopes. Not to mention required GRID improvements to be able to provide capacity to transfer lots of electicity to houses (please remember that eco loons want all cars to be electric).
I don't care what it runs on as long as its cheap, and I wouldn't have an electric car if it was a gift! when this world comes to an end it certainly wont leave me standing because I've recycled a few plastic bags! Stuff saving the planet, life is too short to bankrupt yourself green.!
I had electric storage heaters in rented house, needed fans to circulate the heat. All my monthly wage was spent on electric bill the first month. I lived 6 months with no heat! I ended the lease. Nothing will get me back to electric. Heat pumps are rubbish too! Noisy and this climate won't make them efficient. I'll open my chimney first!
No one ever seems to have any information for those people who live in Victorian tenement flats, 50’s, 60’s flats or those in high rise flats. How are these people meant to adapt their central heating? For example, over 70% of Glasgow’s housing stock is Victorian tenements. How do the Scottish Green Party plan to have all these properties heated efficiently without fossil fuels because these properties can be like ice boxes without decent heating in the colder months? Another point of interest that’s never addressed by anyone is how are those people living in all these flat dwellings meant to charge their electric cars? If you need a car for work and live above the ground floor in a block of flats with a minimum of six flats in one block, where will all these charging points be located for everyone’s use? It’s beginning to feel like a class war. Those in society who can’t afford to live in terraced, semi-detached or detached properties and will struggle with the high costs to convert their home heating systems or be unable to purchase electric vehicles are going to be hit the hardest. Car ownership is beginning to look like a luxury item for those who are financially better off as the high purchase prices of the vehicles and ability to have your personal charging point will make it impossible for the ordinary working person to own one. I don’t believe people like Dale Vince have even considered flat dwellers when he talks about charging electric cars or using heat pumps to heat homes. What’s worse is the Scottish Green Party will know that the majority of the housing in Scotland is old tenement style property yet expect all these changes to happen. There was an experiment regarding a ‘Green tenement’ in Glasgow a couple of years ago. The tenement was vacant for a considerable time while everything was converted. Where would residents have to go if all this remodelling had to take place in or order to make ‘Green tenements’, Mr Harvey? Time for some real answers.
you didn't mention Hydrogen which is probably what will be installed to older houses that heat pumps will not work. This can be fitted to existing boilers.
Hello Living La Dolce Vita, That is a very good point you raise! While hydrogen boilers are still a new technology in development, in the future they can be a really good replacement for gas boilers, since like you mentioned you won't need to make big changes to your existing boiler and heating system in order to switch to them. So it is definitely a good idea to follow updates on the technology and when they start to be available for consumers, especially if your gas boiler does not urgently need replacement. Best regards, GreenMatch
thank you for sharing a deeper insight into what is going on at the moment.. i guess things will change still more .. but i will say as a green person .. i am not happy about the 2040 bit
I consider myself a greenish person and do what I can to reduce my impact. I have driven an EV since 2013, I had solar panels fitted in 2011. I live in a 3 bed detached house built in the 60s which has been thermally upgraded to near current Building Regs requirements. I've had 3 quotes all near 11.5K (after the 5K deducted for the boiler upgrade scheme) for an air source heat pump. I really do want to change my old 1984 installed (55% efficient) gas boiler for a heat pump, but finically when a new 90% efficient gas boiler is about 3.5K I just cant throw all that money away. If I had quotes around 7-8K I would have gone for it, but not at 11.5K.
I saw them looking to ban new homes from it, wanted to check can we still get it? I am hoping to save and build my own house in future but want a gas cooker as prefer gas over electric but all heating and so on be mainly solar panels powered so real eco home apart from cooker
What about infrared? Super low installation costs, though more expensive to run than a heat pump, it's green, supplemented by solar and home batteries to flatten loads, and likely cheaper than an electric boiler or radiators. Why is there so little independent information on ir panels except "studies" from suppliers? Like: that *could* indicate the whole "heating the fabric" thing is a scam, but there isn't really much debunking either. Are they good, bad, where do they sit on the scale, surely they have to be better than biomass?
A pleasure to listen to you Angel, very informative when there is so little information available about these new technologies. I look forward to more so I can begin to make decisions in the coming months/years as I fear that my boiler will need replacing in the next five years. I will definitely need a grant to help pay for this!
Hello Simon, Thank you for the kind words, we're very glad you found the video useful! Changing out your gas boiler can indeed be an expensive investment, so keeping an eye out for grants from the government is a great idea, to help you cover some of the costs. We will also keep our blog updated on any news on future grants! Best regards, GreenMatch
The biggy is the cost of the alternatives. Yes, they might save money but also the initial Co is really high Also, heat pumps aren't really an option in terraced houses, which would affect affecting millions of houses. I'm also waiting on heat pumps to get smaller too. I've lived in rented accommodation and the heat pump outside was freaking huge The other biggy is that even with heat pumps, your energy bills may actually still be higher because currently even with the increase in gas prices, electricity is still about five times more expensive. The heat pumps would have to be at least 500% efficient which is tbf achievable with heat pumps when it isn't too cold , however it'd have to be year round and they don't achieve 500% efficiency during the winter months.
air source heat pump has a low running cost. That is not true.
It takes 1kWh of energy to produce 2 kWh of heat.
This is not informative, this is half thuths and hopes.
Not to mention required GRID improvements to be able to provide capacity to transfer lots of electicity to houses (please remember that eco loons want all cars to be electric).
I don't care what it runs on as long as its cheap, and I wouldn't have an electric car if it was a gift! when this world comes to an end it certainly wont leave me standing because I've recycled a few plastic bags! Stuff saving the planet, life is too short to bankrupt yourself green.!
The heat from the ground will not be significant enough in cold weather.
I had electric storage heaters in rented house, needed fans to circulate the heat. All my monthly wage was spent on electric bill the first month. I lived 6 months with no heat! I ended the lease. Nothing will get me back to electric. Heat pumps are rubbish too! Noisy and this climate won't make them efficient. I'll open my chimney first!
No one ever seems to have any information for those people who live in Victorian tenement flats, 50’s, 60’s flats or those in high rise flats. How are these people meant to adapt their central heating? For example, over 70% of Glasgow’s housing stock is Victorian tenements. How do the Scottish Green Party plan to have all these properties heated efficiently without fossil fuels because these properties can be like ice boxes without decent heating in the colder months? Another point of interest that’s never addressed by anyone is how are those people living in all these flat dwellings meant to charge their electric cars? If you need a car for work and live above the ground floor in a block of flats with a minimum of six flats in one block, where will all these charging points be located for everyone’s use? It’s beginning to feel like a class war. Those in society who can’t afford to live in terraced, semi-detached or detached properties and will struggle with the high costs to convert their home heating systems or be unable to purchase electric vehicles are going to be hit the hardest. Car ownership is beginning to look like a luxury item for those who are financially better off as the high purchase prices of the vehicles and ability to have your personal charging point will make it impossible for the ordinary working person to own one. I don’t believe people like Dale Vince have even considered flat dwellers when he talks about charging electric cars or using heat pumps to heat homes. What’s worse is the Scottish Green Party will know that the majority of the housing in Scotland is old tenement style property yet expect all these changes to happen. There was an experiment regarding a ‘Green tenement’ in Glasgow a couple of years ago. The tenement was vacant for a considerable time while everything was converted. Where would residents have to go if all this remodelling had to take place in or order to make ‘Green tenements’, Mr Harvey?
Time for some real answers.
That's true ordinary people will have less of everything with these stupid ideas and it's annoying how China is making a mint out off this
Am always making spelling mistakes with these stupid fat fingers and no I am not king Charles
you didn't mention Hydrogen which is probably what will be installed to older houses that heat pumps will not work. This can be fitted to existing boilers.
Hello Living La Dolce Vita,
That is a very good point you raise! While hydrogen boilers are still a new technology in development, in the future they can be a really good replacement for gas boilers, since like you mentioned you won't need to make big changes to your existing boiler and heating system in order to switch to them. So it is definitely a good idea to follow updates on the technology and when they start to be available for consumers, especially if your gas boiler does not urgently need replacement.
Best regards, GreenMatch
Hydrogen ready boilers are future. Hopefully.
thank you for sharing a deeper insight into what is going on at the moment.. i guess things will change still more .. but i will say as a green person .. i am not happy about the 2040 bit
I consider myself a greenish person and do what I can to reduce my impact. I have driven an EV since 2013, I had solar panels fitted in 2011. I live in a 3 bed detached house built in the 60s which has been thermally upgraded to near current Building Regs requirements. I've had 3 quotes all near 11.5K (after the 5K deducted for the boiler upgrade scheme) for an air source heat pump. I really do want to change my old 1984 installed (55% efficient) gas boiler for a heat pump, but finically when a new 90% efficient gas boiler is about 3.5K I just cant throw all that money away. If I had quotes around 7-8K I would have gone for it, but not at 11.5K.
You wimp-I have a bicycle, don’t heat and dry clothes by sun.
I saw them looking to ban new homes from it, wanted to check can we still get it? I am hoping to save and build my own house in future but want a gas cooker as prefer gas over electric but all heating and so on be mainly solar panels powered so real eco home apart from cooker
What about infrared? Super low installation costs, though more expensive to run than a heat pump, it's green, supplemented by solar and home batteries to flatten loads, and likely cheaper than an electric boiler or radiators.
Why is there so little independent information on ir panels except "studies" from suppliers?
Like: that *could* indicate the whole "heating the fabric" thing is a scam, but there isn't really much debunking either.
Are they good, bad, where do they sit on the scale, surely they have to be better than biomass?
Really straightforward and informative, thank you!
A pleasure to listen to you Angel, very informative when there is so little information available about these new technologies. I look forward to more so I can begin to make decisions in the coming months/years as I fear that my boiler will need replacing in the next five years. I will definitely need a grant to help pay for this!
Hello Simon,
Thank you for the kind words, we're very glad you found the video useful! Changing out your gas boiler can indeed be an expensive investment, so keeping an eye out for grants from the government is a great idea, to help you cover some of the costs. We will also keep our blog updated on any news on future grants!
Best regards, GreenMatch
The biggy is the cost of the alternatives. Yes, they might save money but also the initial Co is really high
Also, heat pumps aren't really an option in terraced houses, which would affect affecting millions of houses.
I'm also waiting on heat pumps to get smaller too. I've lived in rented accommodation and the heat pump outside was freaking huge
The other biggy is that even with heat pumps, your energy bills may actually still be higher because currently even with the increase in gas prices, electricity is still about five times more expensive. The heat pumps would have to be at least 500% efficient which is tbf achievable with heat pumps when it isn't too cold , however it'd have to be year round and they don't achieve 500% efficiency during the winter months.
Green fascism