"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
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Rick Dipper wrote:
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:51:02 +0100, Jimmy Gibson
wrote:

Dear all,

Someone is bound to know this so here goes.

I'm replacing my Cheratl heating system and boiler soon. I am
currntly
running CH from a solid fuel boiler (Parkray Cumbria 111). I would
like
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Soil heat recovery systems are even cheeper .............
400% efficient, for each 1 unit you put in, you get 4 out - wow !!

But, electricity isn't much less than 4 times the price of gas.
Slightly less wow.

You can get fridges which run on gas - could this be scaled up to a heat
a house?