Re: Servicing a very old gas boiler - still done?

sounds like a great way of missing the point.

So instead of burning gas in the home at 95% or so efficient, you want to build massively expensive power stations to convert gas at 40% efficiency into electricity, which is sold to households at 4x the price per unit as gas. Oh, and don't forget the vast infrastructure upgrade that would require (£,£££,£££,£££). You couldn't make it up.

Sorry, I mustn't laugh. Carbon capture is a joke played on those that simply have no grasp of much. The cycle of getting energy from carbon is C + O -> CO2. Carbon capture is of course CO2 via whatever to C: the exact opposite. IOW it is inherently hopelessly impractical, and less than useless. I realise some don't see why, but it still is.

If we keep using gas that doesn't require the first replacement of household systems. Or the second!

Let's get a reality check here: despite all the rhetoric, we are nowhere near phasing out fossil fuels. Not even slightly. The promises to do so in decades are as realistic as any long distance politician promise: they mean absolutely nothing beyond 'we think you're mugs.'

NT

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tabbypurr
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I wasn't *advocating* anything, just giving the motivation. And whatever engineering trade-offs get made in the end, throwaway remarks like "from gas? At great expense" will not be very useful.

All systems get replaced as they age and fail.

#Paul

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#Paul

my point was that there is no motivation, there is no upside.

Yup. And an added round of compulsory replacement across the board is hardly helpful. The idea is bonkers. Hence greens are all for it.

NT

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tabbypurr

There was at least one motivation, which has indeed been advanced as a future strategy, and I wrote it out for you to read. Just because you personally do not happen to find it sufficiently convincing does not make that motivation vanish.

I might, for example, think that someone's motivation for voting remain (or leave) was somehow flawed. But the existence of that motivation is not dependent of my view on its merits (or lack thereof).

Well, if a change to all-electric (or even all-gas, or all-nuclear) were part of the natural replacement of systems (perhaps "as they age and fail", as I had indeed written), it wouldn't be an added round, would it?

#Paul

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#Paul

you think it makes sense because you don't understand it fully. But we tackled that already.

Do you understand what is involved in installing a GSHP system?

NT

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tabbypurr

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