The great Heat Pump con!
Well, to the surprise of absolutely no-one, we discover that most ordinary people want nothing to do with the WEF inspired “Heat Pumps”
Heat pumps are still too expensive and too few people know about them, the government has been warned. Despite its target, only 55,000 heat pumps were sold in the UK in 2022. Sales must increase dramatically, said the UK's spending watchdog.
Ok, so sales in 2022 were 55,000 but to meet UK climate change targets, the government wants to install 600,000 low-carbon heat pumps annually by 2028. The National Audit Office (NAO) said ministers were optimistic to think that target could be reached by 2028.
I would say that’s quite an understatement! There’s a reason that most of us don’t want a Heat Pump - it’s because we know that they don’t work. The only reason these heat pumps are being pushed at all is in blatant connivance with the Climate Change zealotry and the desire to stop us using “fossil fuels”. In turn that is all about keeping us in cold dark houses. So no one should even consider a Heat Pump unless they want to advance eco-zealotry! The traditional forms of heating work perfectly well and whilst there are good argument for improving insulation, none of these lead to you installing a Heat Pump!
David, I would like to hear a presentation of your take on Fossil Fuel - are oil, gas and coal really FF? Thanks.
The physics of “Air Sourced” heat pumps seems nonsensical to me, the basic idea is to draw heat from the air outside and use that heat to heat water.
The principle is similar to that of an inverted refrigerator where we use a compressor and refrigerant to extract the heat from an insulated sealed box (the fridge) and dissipate the heat through the condenser coils often on the back.
The problem with air sourced heat pumps is that in the winter when we need more heat and thus maximum efficiency the outside air is generally cold meaning the unit is trying to pull heat from cold air, so straight away we have a large inefficiency when we least need it, the negligible heat extracted (during cold periods) then has further losses during its conversion from liquid to gas as the heat is transferred.
In many cases when it is too cold for the heat pump to extract enough heat from the ambient air the units rely on basic electric immersion heaters to heat the water, hence the increase in electricity usage during cold weather.
In my opinion these units are greatly overcomplicating the way we heat our homes for little tangible benefit.