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Non Life Sciences => Technology => Topic started by: Petrochemicals on 27/12/2021 00:02:07
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Gan I get a hot water boiler that generates electricity? Given that we will be dependant on gas for many many years, either to heat our homes and water or to power our devices and charge our electric cars, it would surely be a good idea to generate the power where the hot water is wanted. After all, hot water and electric are used seasonally pretty much the same?
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Gan I get a hot water boiler that generates electricity?
Why not use the electricity that comes into your house?
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Gan I get a hot water boiler that generates electricity?
Why not use the electricity that comes into your house?
I answered that in he opening post. Why do you not read it?
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You might need to get together with a few neighbours to make it worthwhile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_combined_heat_and_power
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Don't even think of an electric boiler unless you want to go bankrupt.
Electricity is probably five times the cost of gas, perhaps 15p/kWh compared to 3p. Electric boilers are 100% efficient in converting energy into heat, gas up to about 90% so you will still lose massively. Do the sums.
Gas is far cheaper. Going green may be laudable but will be expensive. Even if a heat pump installation magically materialised overnight you would be paying about twice as much to run it compared to gas.
Nothing is more expensive than using daytime electricity for resistive heating.
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Don't even think of an electric boiler unless you want to go bankrupt.
Electricity is probably five times the cost of gas, perhaps 15p/kWh compared to 3p. Electric boilers are 100% efficient in converting energy into heat, gas up to about 90% so you will still lose massively. Do the sums.
Gas is far cheaper. Going green may be laudable but will be expensive. Even if a heat pump installation magically materialised overnight you would be paying about twice as much to run it compared to gas.
Nothing is more expensive than using daytime electricity for resistive heating.
Do you know where one can get a gas boiler, perhaps even a central heating system, maybe for free, on a government scheme ? Do you have any links ?
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Do you have any links ?
12 million of them in less than 10 seconds:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=domestic+chp&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=domestic+chp&sc=10-12&sk=&cvid=8865F76F517743F9A56CF487A783354A&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=