Stockpiling boilers?

[Steve Walker]

Not really when modern condensing boilers are up to 94% efficient - which is significantly better than even combined cycle generators ... and that's before transmission losses of around 20%.

[Fredxx]

I haven't read a single article suggesting your fallacy.

No, the plutonium would migrate to bones and being an alpha, beta and gamma emitter would cause damage and cancers over the subject's lifetime.

Of course you won't recognise you've been conned into believing that?

[Robin]

OTOH things may change. Perhaps the Building (Climate Change) Act 2025 will bring fitting a new gas boiler within the new offence of "Building against planet". With Punishable by an unlimited fine and a sentence of up to 14 years. And with a new BCO force - uniformed, armed with 12" angle grinders, and authorised to say "Are you feeling lucky, punk?"

[Theo]

It's hard to beat heat pump efficiency of 200-400%, even with transmission losses.

Theo

[Adrian]

In message <obednbDXg [e-mail]>, John Rumm [e-mail] writes

I think it is on the site of RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria

Adrian

[Robin]

I think near the RAF station but not on it. ISTR it's on a site long used for testing things that go bang.

[Chris Bacon]

I cannot imagine why anyone would want to do such a thing.

George Carlin's very telling words spring to mind.

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Tricky Dicky presented the following explanation :

Likewise here too and they have been at it several years, just in our village.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

+1

[Tim+]

But per kWhr, electricity is a lot more expensive than gas.

Tim

[Tim+]

To avoid future fuel poverty?

Plenty of folk struggle at present to meet their fuel bills. Forcing everyone to install a system that at current energy prices costs more to run will not be popular.

Tim

[Steve Walker]

Oh indeed. However, they are bloody expensive to buy and install, require changes to radiators or a switch to underfloor heating (with all the cost and disruption of that) and the improved efficiency only brings the cost of running them down to roughly that of a gas boiler, so it will never pay for itself. So loads of up-front cost and disruption and the bills stay just as high.

How many householders would actually be able to afford to replace a failed gas boiler with a heat pump, at many times the cost, at zero notice? How many people would like to be without heating and hot water for weeks, mid-winter, while everything else was changed? Yes installation could be done faster, but not with fitting under-floor heating and new power cabling to the heat-pump, while still living in the house and trying to install it neatly.

[mechanic]

Careful what you type into search engines.

[williamwright]

The whole greeny thing relies on brainwashing. All that will be needed will be more brainwashing.

Bill

[Andy Burns]

I've heard of it it as a possible replacement for bunker oil for big ships.

[Robin]

I thought wrong. I recalled it was a company rather than HMG facility. But it is on the RAF site. I apologise for doubting you.

[Spike]

Well said.

LOL

WHS

[Andy Burns]

Other than Gas Safe registration No. 198312 (and others)

[charles]

but they weren't intended to go bang on site

[Dave Plowman (News]

Still got your head in the sand, Bill? Climate change due to excess CO2 isn't going to make any real difference to most of us. But may well do to our descendants.