On 21/02/2019 14:28, NY wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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harry wrote:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...en-target.html


how absurd

And ban new houses being connected to mains gas before 2025

https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/UK-housing-Fit-for-the-future-CCC-2019.pdf


So new houses will have to be heated by electricity (storage heaters or
heat pumps) or else by oil.

Oil already banned.

Heatpumps untril te wind stops blowing then freeze to death.


Until oil runs out. Then you really*will* be
making people put all their eggs in one basket, given that there are
more and more restrictions on wood and coal stoves as main or backup
heating.

And you have to "sell" the idea that it will be more expensive to
install, and maybe to run, and (according to the article) will take
longer to heat up a room - presumably because it is lower power. That's
a hell of an advertising and PR campaign that you are going to need :-)

We are looking to move house and we went to look at a house the other
week that had been extensively modified by the builder who lived there.
It had some sort of underfloor heating that needed an air vent in the
ceiling of each room. My wife and I were very conscious of a continuous
and intensely irritating whine throughout the house from the air vents.
Is that going to be the future of central heating?

Having a house that is connected to a gas main is seen as a big selling
point for a house because it is cheaper to use gas than oil, and storage
heaters or bottled gas are even more expensive.

Ironic that 40 years ago "North Sea Gas" was touted as a universal saviour.


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