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| When Gramps becomes a popsicle: UK winter plan for heat pumps is |
| 2023-08-29 |
| [HoAir] So, when you live in Never Never Land as Greens seem to do , there’s nothing that the act of your merely saying it can’t make so. It has happened repeatedly with their empty promises of renewables carrying the United Kingdom cheaply and reliably forward into the 22d century and the Nirvana that is Net Zero. It is happening again with the mandates to switch the entirety of the British Isles — including the naughty north bits who routinely plunge into frozen wastelands come winter — to electric heat pumps. Even as folks intimately familiar with such technology, and the fact that the U.K. can’t keep the lights on as it is, insist with moral authority "Heat pumps are not designed for heating in C-O-L-D climates." And they say that sanctions against cheap Russian gas are a failure! |
| Posted by:Grom the Kindly |
| #8 Mine does fine keeping it around 68 inside when it's upper 30s outside at night. I'm glad that's as hard as it has to ever work where I'm at. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-08-29 13:24 |
| #7 Heat pumps don't work as well below 40F. Mine freezes when the temperature gets around 0. It's relatively new. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-08-29 12:26 |
| #6 Putting that unit in the bath will reduce his heating requirements. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-08-29 09:38 |
| #5 I don't know anyone who has a heat pump w/o a supplemental electric heater. Though that negates the goal of saving on utility bills w/ a heat pump. Buy old furniture and burn it in a barrel in the living room. It's carbon neutral. |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-08-29 09:32 |
| #4 Sadly most greenies tend to be starving vegans, so you can't burn them for heat. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-08-29 09:29 |
| #3 Here's a German alternative that I put in the basement bath and bedroom. Pretty quiet and takes the chill off fast. (That young fellow in the advert, it's not the Stiebel making him smile. It must be the koffee.) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-08-29 09:23 |
| #2 ^But imagine how much money UK will save in pensions. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-08-29 09:21 |
| #1 Anywhere it snows, a heat pump is a loosing proposition. Seriously. At water phase change temperatures there's not enough atmospheric heat to recover. Whoever decided to use them there is a moron. Even in south Texas, when temps get down around freezing I get calls from friends who was to know if I have any space heaters. (I usually say, prop open the door to you electric oven and use a box fan. They're dumbfounded.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-08-29 08:48 |