• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

Reply to: A load of hot air?

Collapse

You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

  • You are not logged in. If you are already registered, fill in the form below to log in, or follow the "Sign Up" link to register a new account.
  • You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
  • If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Previously on "A load of hot air?"

Collapse

  • d000hg
    replied
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    That's the sort of negativity that ... speck/plank?
    Eh? I'm engaged in a reasonable discourse on what's available and realistic. Disagreement isn't negativity.

    Leave a comment:


  • WTFH
    replied
    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

    They're having a laugh! Is that what installing a ground heat pump really involves?! No wonder it costs tens of thousands!
    No, those are photos to show the concept of how you can lay multiple pipes.

    Leave a comment:


  • OwlHoot
    replied
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    That's the sort of negativity that ... speck/plank?

    Anyway, yes, you can run multiple lines - either as straight pipes or as slinkies.


    They're having a laugh! Is that what installing a ground heat pump really involves?! No wonder it costs tens of thousands!

    Boris the wonky shopping trolley is a Walter Mitty character, and away with the fairies!

    To go a long way towards minimising the UK's carbon footprint, it would be far easier and more effective to ban air conditioning for cooling, and office fans that ran off the mains (as opposed to small desktop USB fans). There's no reason for supermarkets and shopping centres and offices to be like walk-in freezers.

    Last edited by OwlHoot; 21 October 2021, 09:08.

    Leave a comment:


  • WTFH
    replied
    Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
    And when some navvies slice through one of the pipes with their digger at some point in the future what's the repair cost?
    Best not bother doing it then.

    Leave a comment:


  • tazdevil
    replied
    And when some navvies slice through one of the pipes with their digger at some point in the future what's the repair cost?

    Leave a comment:


  • Gibbon
    replied
    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    What if...

    Humans are simply doing what they've evolved to do? Just because we're consciously aware of our behaviour doesn't mean we're not destined to destroy. When we've all but wiped ourselves out, the planet will recover and a new dominant life form will arise. All lifeforms live to the limits afforded them by their environment - our environment just happens to be a bit bigger. You're all just delaying the inevitable cycle of life and death of a species.
    There's some sense in this, space is the way out, find some other planet to exploit. Anyway, in the end its all futile as the Sun won't last forever. Neither will the universe, one day it will all be cold again.

    Leave a comment:


  • WTFH
    replied
    Originally posted by d000hg View Post

    I wonder if I could bury it in my drive, that's about 100m long. Although I don't think that gives me enough power, unless I can lay two.
    That's the sort of negativity that ... speck/plank?

    Anyway, yes, you can run multiple lines - either as straight pipes or as slinkies.


    Leave a comment:


  • DoctorStrangelove
    replied
    More power, Igor!

    Master, there is danger!

    Leave a comment:


  • d000hg
    replied
    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    Gosh. According to that site my garden isn't nearly big enough for a ground source heat pump.

    Who'd have thunk?
    I wonder if I could bury it in my drive, that's about 100m long. Although I don't think that gives me enough power, unless I can lay two.

    Leave a comment:


  • DoctorStrangelove
    replied
    Gosh. According to that site my garden isn't nearly big enough for a ground source heat pump.

    Who'd have thunk?

    Leave a comment:


  • d000hg
    replied
    Originally posted by mattster View Post

    We need to consume less - no argument from me. But currently we probably use more equivalent kwh from gas than electricity in our homes, so if we are going to shift to all electric for everything (which we must) then there's no getting away from the fact that our grid infrastructure is going to need a serious overhaul - and that's probably before we even start thinking about charging our cars as well.
    This is the sort of sense negativity WTFH is talking about. Pointing out realistic problems is not going to magically make everything better.

    Leave a comment:


  • vetran
    replied
    Originally posted by mattster View Post

    We need to consume less - no argument from me. But currently we probably use more equivalent kwh from gas than electricity in our homes, so if we are going to shift to all electric for everything (which we must) then there's no getting away from the fact that our grid infrastructure is going to need a serious overhaul - and that's probably before we even start thinking about charging our cars as well.
    Agree completely about upgrading the Grid we also need to realise the proper definition is "consume less of the Earth's resources".

    We need to do it as a planet as well. We can by switching to renewable power that is clean and plan for more people to use more individually across the world.

    There is no point us living in freezing homes if China & India burn coal to supply us with trinkets or to try to keep up with the Jones's.

    Leave a comment:


  • mattster
    replied
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    ...how about people consume less?

    Crazy idea, I know, because our economy is reliant on more people consuming more stuff.
    We need to consume less - no argument from me. But currently we probably use more equivalent kwh from gas than electricity in our homes, so if we are going to shift to all electric for everything (which we must) then there's no getting away from the fact that our grid infrastructure is going to need a serious overhaul - and that's probably before we even start thinking about charging our cars as well.

    Leave a comment:


  • ladymuck
    replied
    What if...

    Humans are simply doing what they've evolved to do? Just because we're consciously aware of our behaviour doesn't mean we're not destined to destroy. When we've all but wiped ourselves out, the planet will recover and a new dominant life form will arise. All lifeforms live to the limits afforded them by their environment - our environment just happens to be a bit bigger. You're all just delaying the inevitable cycle of life and death of a species.

    Leave a comment:


  • vetran
    replied
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    Do they? If they saw Slough, maybe even the most ardent fan of coming to Engerland would change their mind
    I never suggested they wanted move to the UK that is only a few hundred million in the world who want to do that, the rest want to move to the USA. So few want to move to France or Poland for some reason? No accounting for taste.

    But the new rich want to live the good life, that costs the world's resources more than a subsistence existence.

    Leave a comment:

Working...
X