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The Cost of Ditching Gas Boilers.

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Ministers want us to go green, but for homeowners, the sums seldom add up | Daily Mail Online

“My brother in law installed a ground source heat pump at a cost of 35,000. The radiators in the house are not big enough to provide enough energy from the system to keep the house warm in winter. So he has three open fires burning logs. And there is the complete madness of this Government's pathetic attempt to make us go green. Ps don't have a smart meter fitted.”

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    Open fires are a hopelessly inefficient way to use firewood.  Most of the heat goes up the chimney, and the draw in the chimney sucks cold air into the house behind it.

    Why not upgrade the radiators with bigger ones?  There are plenty of cowboy installs of heat pumps that cost the homeowner a fortune to run.  But that doesn't mean that heat pumps can't work.

    But the way electricity and gas prices are at the moment, even a well-installed heat pump will cost more to run than a gas boiler.

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    If what you are allowed to connect to the gas pipes was not so tightly regulated in the UK, we might see more effort in gas micro-turbines such a thing in the home could provide combined heat and electricity and be essentially gas only. 

    That would clip the variation between  gas and electricity somewhat.

    Of course in the longer run we want to stop burning fossil fuel derived methane, but there are other things that burn , and gasses and liquids store more easily than electricity.

    Mike.

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