ASHP - this one?

[Moxi]

Sniff,

I'm filling up  all this love.....

[Rooster]

If anyones thinking of getting a heatpump its worth considering that RHI's will be along soon and heatpumps are included.

Get an approved heatpump with a certified installation (   ) and you could be onto a nice little earner.
Looks like being paid around 9p a unit heat out.

COP of 3 then could presumably mean spend 10p a unit to run it get paid 27p for using it!

RHIs could well change the landscape for heatpumps dramatically.

Possibly the additional expense of a certified install will make it all a bit of a gamble until the details are finalised though.

ps. RHI = Renewable Heat Incentive, a scheme by which you can be paid for the heat you produce provided its from an approved source.
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/uk_supply/energy_mix/renewable/policy/renewable_heat/incentive/incentive.aspx


 

[wyleu]

ps. RHI = Renewable Heat Incentive, a scheme by which you can be paid for the heat you produce provided its from an approved source.
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/uk_supply/energy_mix/renewable/policy/renewable_heat/incentive/incentive.aspx

Why do I feel that nuclear will be a (very) approved heat source?

[martin]

if the ASHP scheme thing is true (and I don't disbelieve it for a second, coming as it does from the same blithering nincompoops who gave grants for roof-mounted chocolate teapots), how long before we're paid a subsidy for using "straight" electric fires?
They may yet make "economic" sense, but until we have totally renewably generated "mains", I fear they can never be anywhere near being considered as truly "green"

[Rooster]

Why do I feel that nuclear will be a (very) approved heat source?

Indeed, but imagine the certification process for our home brew domestic reactors!

Sadly I feel the paperwork may be the stumbling block for home based reactors.   

[wyleu]

Didn't someone post a link to a japanese home based nuclear thermal electrical generator?