I extensively explored the steam tunnels at an unnamed midwest university. Live steam was distributed to each building on campus through the tunnels, and pumped through a heat exchanger and an air handler to condition the building. No radiators were used. Chilled water was distributed in the summer for cooling.
In the older (pre WWII) buildings the air handlers (a large squirrel-cage fan) were two stories high.
You can't around the fact it moves air around.
You can't around the fact it moves air around.
That's tropical. Is someone in your house ill?
Irrelevant, the air is still moving about causing draughts which presumably cool you a little, and disturb dust.
Why don't UK houses have basements? We're wasting so much space. And we have less space on this tiny little island.
Furthest. Do you also say farther away? That sounds like you're telling your dad to go away.
I just have a heat pump in one room and leave the doors open to any room I want heated or cooled.
That's tropical. Is someone in your house ill?
Irrelevant, the air is still moving about causing draughts which presumably cool you a little, and disturb dust.
Why don't UK houses have basements? We're wasting so much space. And we have less space on this tiny little island.
Furthest. Do you also say farther away? That sounds like you're telling your dad to go away.
I just have a heat pump in one room and leave the doors open to any room I want heated or cooled.
Then why don't they make the power station like the boiler?
Ahhhhh, someone who uses proper sensible measurements. It's so annoying buying those when you get crazy numbers from American companies quiting 18 efficiency. COP is simple, divide the output by the input.
Actually I bought a heat pump for £430. The cheapest boiler I could find was £500. And the heat pump doesn't need radiators.
The old boilers without combi or condensing lasted for ages, mine lasted for over 20 years (without a single service) and it was still going strong when I removed it. Only ever had to replace a £7.50 pilot light sensor, which I obviously did myself). But the new ones, probably 5 years.
Nonsense, mine turns on and off just fine.
Why would you run it when you're not there?
Neither does mine as I don't need hot water. The shower, dishwasher, and washing machine heat their own water.
Then why don't they make the power station like the boiler?
Ahhhhh, someone who uses proper sensible measurements. It's so annoying buying those when you get crazy numbers from American companies quiting 18 efficiency. COP is simple, divide the output by the input.
Actually I bought a heat pump for £430. The cheapest boiler I could find was £500. And the heat pump doesn't need radiators.
The old boilers without combi or condensing lasted for ages, mine lasted for over 20 years (without a single service) and it was still going strong when I removed it. Only ever had to replace a £7.50 pilot light sensor, which I obviously did myself). But the new ones, probably 5 years.
Nonsense, mine turns on and off just fine.
Why would you run it when you're not there?
Neither does mine as I don't need hot water. The shower, dishwasher, and washing machine heat their own water.
the power station makes electricity not heat....
Is the heat to electricity section that inefficient?!
I wake up if I get a headache. See if you can get a firmware update for your brain.
Ah, the Japanese "buy another one" chip. F****ng ripoff.
Wow, OCD or what?
Please don't tell me you're as bad as one of my relatives who writes the date she replaced the battery in a clock.
Why don't they underground everything?
Is that sizewell tea safe to drink?
I'd rather die than live in a city.
Those weirdos can live elsewhere.
See when you're having trouble breathing, move.
No need to heat every room, just leave the doors open.
Surely heating isn't required ion Spain.
And that's so difficult for you to do? I read mine every 6 months, takes me 1 minute.
Maybe they fixed it after the big farce. And of course there's still this:
Then vote for the little parties.
If. Do you trust your neighbour?
And did the above folk you mention go to prison? In the UK the punishment for meter fraud is having to pay it back!
ROTFPMSL! No way that could fill that huge space with much CO.
I had mine for 20 years without a single service. Guess what, the fumes go OUTSIDE.
None, I'm not a pussy.
Yes. I stayed one time in council flats in Denmark. They had a community furnace that burnt all the rubbish, heated all the flats and generated a bit of electricity.
I think the Greens wanted them all shut down
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