What links these two Villages, one in Cambridgeshire and One in Cornwall
The link on my card is relevant to this thread. There may be others.
That would be a valid answer Mick.mickthemaverick wrote: 19 Oct 2021, 14:26 My suggestion for a link would be Mills!! Both have mills powered by renewable energy, the wind in Cambridgeshire and the river in Cornwall!!
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 19 Oct 2021, 08:32 This looks like its filling a few column inches in the popular and not so popular press. The direction set is quite important in bringing about the changes across manufacturing, skills and supply chains to bring about the move away from natural gas burning in domestic homes to electrification of domestic heating/hot water. The huge current dominance of gas heating in homes due to it being cheaper than electric heating is of course a massively difficult starting point, with the current alternatives not yet scaled up to be equivalent to the current gas heating in price.
Havent seen the document yet but this is what the official press release says.The Scottish Government got theirs out a week or so ago. Same sort of thing.
One of the ideas which the Hydrogen and gas lobby have been pushing for is pumping 20% Hydrogen through the gas grid, and then ramping up to 100% as hydrogen supplies increase. Governments have been sucking that one up for a while now but I have never quite got past the physics of making hydrogen from electricity you have already generated, consuming a fair chunk of it in the process to make a worse less transportable energy carrier.
REgards Neil
Drawing a blank on that too DMDormouse wrote: 19 Oct 2021, 16:10 Does anybody know of a ECP calculator. You use to get them online but I can't find one. cheers
Clue 1NewcastleFalcon wrote: 19 Oct 2021, 14:06What links these two Villages, one in Cambridgeshire and One in Cornwall
The link on my card is relevant to this thread. There may be others.
Regards Neil
You did get them not long ago. I have the link for the old BER system but I cannot find the ECP links that used to be up.NewcastleFalcon wrote: 19 Oct 2021, 17:38Drawing a blank on that too DMDormouse wrote: 19 Oct 2021, 16:10 Does anybody know of a ECP calculator. You use to get them online but I can't find one. cheers
Regards Neil
Yes the Swaffam one is here, bit of reading but basically a field with boreholes, not a borehole in everyone's garden, and an energy centre from which heat is distibuted to individual homes via a distibution network of pipes in the village. A retro fit district heating scheme powered by communal ground source heat pumps. The village is off the gas grid, and most current heating is oil.mickthemaverick wrote: 19 Oct 2021, 18:40 Picking up on the clue do both villages have a communial ground heat pump system installed?
The one in Stithians, appears to be centred on individual heat pumps being installed and takes advantage of Local company, Kensa Utilities, being awarded a £6m grant by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to part-fund ‘Heat the Streets’, an £8.7 million Cornish renewable heating project, the initial stage of which will pioneer a Heat Pump Village in Stithians.
Major capital investments for a couple of small villages undoubtedly.
myglaren wrote: 19 Oct 2021, 19:58 I wonder if using non-working coal mines as a source of geothermal heat would be practicable?
