Post by campbeji on Jan 21, 2013 20:35:30 GMT -5
Hi all,
I had an interesting chat with a client of mine recently, he is a mechanical engineer or something at the Agricultural college. We talked in general for a while about some of the intesting technology they are working with up there, bio fuels, gas from silage etc, coppice, wood chip boilers etc.
He then mentioned that he had been thinking about installing a new oil heating system, but the college had recently installed a big air source heat pump system in an office block. So he thought he would take a risk and try it himself. He bought a system off Ebay for about £500 and installed it (very easily he says) and is very impressed. He recons that he gets 4 times the energy out as electricity in, so he's pretty pleased with that. I think this was a system he put into an office or workshop or something so is only for space heating.
He is now thinking of connecting it up to PV panels to run it off grid, wouldn't that be cool.
I had an interesting chat with a client of mine recently, he is a mechanical engineer or something at the Agricultural college. We talked in general for a while about some of the intesting technology they are working with up there, bio fuels, gas from silage etc, coppice, wood chip boilers etc.
He then mentioned that he had been thinking about installing a new oil heating system, but the college had recently installed a big air source heat pump system in an office block. So he thought he would take a risk and try it himself. He bought a system off Ebay for about £500 and installed it (very easily he says) and is very impressed. He recons that he gets 4 times the energy out as electricity in, so he's pretty pleased with that. I think this was a system he put into an office or workshop or something so is only for space heating.
He is now thinking of connecting it up to PV panels to run it off grid, wouldn't that be cool.