Tony Bryer wrote:

In article , Rick Hughes
wrote:
There was a very long thread on this on UK_Selfbuild ...
lasting many weeks, there are a couple of guys thee who know
about these systems. The consensus was - too early in
development, and hence reliability & cost not there yet.

Perhaps I'm missing something but they talk about using wasted
heat to generate electricity. But the best condensing boilers
are already running at 91% efficiency, so there's not much to
reclaim, certainly not 25% ????

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It may be a very good way to heat your house _whilst_ generating
electricty (because you need to).
I doubt it is a better way of to heat your house than a condensing
boiler with correct installation and controls.

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