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Climate Change - The Agenda
Jay P
Posted: 26 February 2025 18:43:53(UTC)

Joined: 25/08/2023(UTC)
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Heat pumps! Very topical around here.
Some near neighbours have been very enthusiastic about 'doing their bit' so had both solar panels and a heat pump fitted to their old and large property.
After three winters they have now decided to have the heat pump removed and are in the process of reverting to an oil fired boiler.

The pump has just not been able to heat the radiators sufficiently, it responded slowly to a new temperature request and basically needed to be grinding away continuously. At best, warm never hot, and the near continuous noise became more and more irritating.
The initial fit did include upgrading of pipework to a larger diameter around the radiator system, plus a few more radiators than previous, on the advice of the installer. Lots of tinkering over the three years but it just wasn't fit for purpose.

We were watching their experience with interest over the last three years and getting regular updates; their initial enthusiasm and their 'can do' attitude to trying to make it work has been as fair a test as one could wish.
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ANDREW FOSTER
Posted: 26 February 2025 18:50:04(UTC)

Joined: 23/07/2019(UTC)
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OmegaMale;335863 wrote:


From that article:

"For electric vehicles, the market is already pretty much at parity with internal combustion engine vehicles, so we think just naturally that will start to be a choice people make," Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of the CCC, told the BBC's Today programme.

What utter tosh (and that's being polite).

They are significantly more expensive to buy and depreciate like a stone.
If you can't charge at home, the fuel costs are significantly higher (I saw somewhere where someone had worked out that running a car using public chargers equated to around 22mpg.




Indeed. And it seems one of the few things keeping EV sales going is tax incentives on comapny cars.

Loss of subsidies and incoming road tax may tip the whole thing over the edge...

There is a place for EV's, as second cars for school runs and commutes where you can charge at home. But trying to force everyone down that route is ludicrous.


If only there were a party that would scrap such nonesense.... ;-)
Newbie
Posted: 26 February 2025 19:45:09(UTC)

Joined: 31/01/2012(UTC)
Posts: 3,818

ANDREW FOSTER;335869 wrote:
There is a place for EV's, as second cars for school runs and commutes where you can charge at home.

Really - at current price and speed of depreciation levels.
One would be better attaching a spare car battery to a kids pram of bugggy
Better sill attach a carriage of sorts to an electric scooter.
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