Turning Down the Thermostat.

We do seem to suffer a generally clueless society at almost all levels of decision making, including newspaper editing.

Looking at that Daily Mail article I wonder how many readers will look at the picture of an external heat exchanger and read the caption.
One of the heat pumps, which extracts the air and turns it into fluid which is heated

And think that  liquid air has something to do with it..

Also running the water in the radiators 10 degrees lower does not mean you run the thermostat 10 degrees lower, just that it takes rather longer for the house to reach the target temperature, and on a cold day it may not make it at all if losses exceed the rate of heating.  Actually quite a lot of the older heating systems that were single pipe ran the rads at the end of the line a lot cooler than that.


It might be better if the govt tried to put some effort into proper eduction of its own officers and more immediately into researching better ways of lagging solid walls, perhaps the mass production of polymer Aerogel insulation, and then training up the next gen of nuclear power engineers. I suggest by around 2030 it will become  obvious we need both.

Mike.

We do seem to suffer a generally clueless society at almost all levels of decision making, including newspaper editing.

Looking at that Daily Mail article I wonder how many readers will look at the picture of an external heat exchanger and read the caption.
One of the heat pumps, which extracts the air and turns it into fluid which is heated

And think that  liquid air has something to do with it..

Also running the water in the radiators 10 degrees lower does not mean you run the thermostat 10 degrees lower, just that it takes rather longer for the house to reach the target temperature, and on a cold day it may not make it at all if losses exceed the rate of heating.  Actually quite a lot of the older heating systems that were single pipe ran the rads at the end of the line a lot cooler than that.


It might be better if the govt tried to put some effort into proper eduction of its own officers and more immediately into researching better ways of lagging solid walls, perhaps the mass production of polymer Aerogel insulation, and then training up the next gen of nuclear power engineers. I suggest by around 2030 it will become  obvious we need both.

Mike.