Why don't you ask a climate scientist?
Heat pumps........yeah right !
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The thought of everyone's noisy heat pumps all flashing up at 4am is not a pleasant one.
In this instance it would be more beneficial to just leave the heating on permanently
Let me help you out a bit more.
Last few thousad years has seen rather a lot of stability. I appreciate the scale changes over time, but it shows clearly that over 10000 years of stability is being thrown away:
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............. but it then comes on 3 hours earlier than they get up to make sure the house is a nice temp when they get up.
The thought of everyone's noisy heat pumps all flashing up at 4am is not a pleasant one.
there could be a heat store in each home.
The thought of everyone's noisy heat pumps all flashing up at 4am is not a pleasant one.
I'm assuming that's 4am the day before.
Let me help you out a bit more.
Last few thousad years has seen rather a lot of stability. I appreciate the scale changes over time, but it shows clearly that over 10000 years of stability is being thrown away:
So what you are saying is that the earth has traditionally had a fairly unstable temperature, except for the last 10,000 years, but the suggestion is that the earth may be returning back to its traditional instability, which might or might not be due to human influences. Yet despite the uncertainness about the cause, humans should revert back to cave dwelling to save the earth - the doing of which might or might not help the situation at all.
I bet once upon a time, folk used to wake up to grates being emptied into metal bins and smoke filled streets.The thought of everyone's noisy heat pumps all flashing up at 4am is not a pleasant one.
No. On every count.
The atmosphere is warming at an unprecedented rate. Rapid warming that's happened in the past has lead to mass extinctions. Again, perhaps you need to look up what climate scientists are saying (look up IPCC or the blog below)
Nice summary here:
https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm
The cause of the warming is us. There is little or no debate about this, we know where the extra carbon in the atmophere is coming from (fossil fuels), owing to the isotope signature:
https://skepticalscience.com/co2-increase-is-natural-not-human-caused.htm
No one of any prominence is suggesting we live in caves, or even close to that.
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That is working exactly as intended.
There is a real fundamental knowledge gap in the industry, it hasn't been helped by years of "install a giant boiler" running at 70 degrees either.
The thought of everyone's noisy heat pumps all flashing up at 4am is not a pleasant one.
'Flashing up'. That's a real artificer's term.
What keeping your home so cold you've gotta burn wood to get warm?
That's one of the major drawbacks with heat pumps. Heat response is very slow so they need to be on 24/7. During cold weather they'll be blowing away more or less constantly.
Incidentally, it is nearly November and we have not had our heating on yet. We are decently insulated but not excessively so.
If your radiators are double the size then you can deliver the same amount of energy with lower flow temperatures.
Water contains heat (energy) at a fixed rate. 4200 joules / kg regardless of the temp.
Either the system was not designed or installed properly or the heat loss from the building was not accurately measured.
It's not magic.
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