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Never mind the EVCPs, what about the boilers.

Chris Pearson
Apparently gas boilers should be banned from 2025.


At the moment, well under 10% of our energy is supplied by electricity: it is mostly gas. Use of an electric vehicle could double our leccy consumption, which would be bad enough; but (a) trebling the cost of our energy would be painful, and (b) how would the network and generation cope?
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    If one does use this heat, it reduces the power station efficiency considerably. This is why we use cooling towers, the turbines must exhaust into a fairly good vacuum from condensing the steam. CHP is nothing like as wonderful as it is often made out to be, you should see the steam leaks in New York on a cold day!


    Unfortunately, Richard, the air temperature over a lot of Britain in winter is much less than zero, at -10 to 60C the heat pump is not a lot of use, Electricity costing about 5 times as much as gas, from my latest fuel Bill. Heat pumps only work where the transfer is air to air, ie. full air conditioning, as I pointed out the other day elsewhere on the forum.
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    If one does use this heat, it reduces the power station efficiency considerably. This is why we use cooling towers, the turbines must exhaust into a fairly good vacuum from condensing the steam. CHP is nothing like as wonderful as it is often made out to be, you should see the steam leaks in New York on a cold day!


    Unfortunately, Richard, the air temperature over a lot of Britain in winter is much less than zero, at -10 to 60C the heat pump is not a lot of use, Electricity costing about 5 times as much as gas, from my latest fuel Bill. Heat pumps only work where the transfer is air to air, ie. full air conditioning, as I pointed out the other day elsewhere on the forum.
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