Domestic/social housing

[Spudhater]

I was speaking to an Area sales manager tother day and he said that he had just been in a presentation re renewables.

The way he saw it was, that in the very near future all social housing as well as domestic will have to have some form of renewables installed when fitting new replacement Heating/HW

So the days of fitting just a condensing combi in a 3 bed semi will be no go, you will have to install solar/ground source heat pump/air source heat pump.. blah..

The funding for this type of work is being looked at by tagging it on the the house as a loan, not quite sure how this works but i have heard about it before..


Any thoughts anyone..

 

[Bernie2]

Makes sense really,

I have often wondered what they will do when the gas runs out?

Surprisingly the government still gives grants for fitting gas boilers.

I suppose they could change over to Hydrogen, if they can make it safe, but I wonder how much you would have to change the boilers to use it?

Must look up its Wobbe number sometime and work it out.

But Wow what a bang if that stuff goes off!!!

Anyway I suppose it comes down to what we adopt as a national energy strategy?

Do we go nuclear power? In which case electric boilers should be promoted?

Do we go heat pump, ground source, voltaic, sea, wind, hydro, fuel cell or a mix of it all?

Which ever, it would seem electric is going to be the coming thing.

Should be getting on with it now I suppose and not wait until its no energy time.

What we like in the UK?

We could have factories turning electric boilers out and giving plenty of well paying jobs. But no we seem to prefer to fiddle about.

The existing power stations seem to have only a few years left, we ain't got much gas storage even if we wanted gas, we are running out of water and all we seem to do is talk about it, madness. Perhaps we could use the hot air for heating?

🙂 🙂

 

[Puddle]

Perhaps we could use the hot air for heating?

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Agree completely ,Bernie, well put, when are people going to wake up and face the future problems in supplying their basic needs
Governments look at the costs and put their head in the sand, funny how we have found all this money to help out the Banking sector and financial markets, that in reality are just like one big bookies and loan shark operation
Trouble is time has or is running out, we have left it to late, so we will end up with the nuclear industry, which has its place, just not maybe, on the size we now require by inaction in the past, cheaper in the short term, and electric will be the way forward in providing energy for the masses in built up, heavily populated areas
However new technologies are happening all the time and old ones reinvented so who knows, think that is what many governments, are counting on, whatever the outcome the days of abuse and over indulgence a numbers

 

[doitmyself]

funny how we have found all this money to help out the Banking sector and financial markets, that in reality are just like one big bookies and loan shark operation

But it wasn't given to the banks, it was lent to them at a fairly high rate of interest. So the Banks are very keen to repay the loan as quickly as possible; which explains why the average customer/business is finding it difficult to get a loan at the moment.

 

[justlead1]

Hi. I was informed (possible on this site. Age and memory lapse) That on May the 24th. The government department tasked with providing these loans, shelved the policy, due to start April 2011 much to the cost of some big players in the game who invested massively on the back of the potential.

 

[josh]

Ofcourse some of the people that live in social housing are really going to appreciate and make the most of having a ground source heat pump worth thousands of pounds.
A really good idea and worth all that money from a government that can barely rub two pennies together?