I always click these articles hoping for a new trick. I'm almost always disappointed.
Short of getting a newer heat pump, nothing I do will impact my bill in any significant way. I already do most of the smaller stuff.
Short of getting a newer heat pump, nothing I do will impact my bill in any significant way. I already do most of the smaller stuff.
These types of articles are for the general population which may not realise things about insulation. Or energy, or phase changes etc. And generally sent interested in how things work, or efficiency, except to the extent it costs them money.
What would help is higher regulatory energy standards and better enforcement. I’d settle for making sure builders actually use insulation and don’t leave obvious thermal bypass/bridging across it.
My 20 year old new build property leaks heat due to it being a “plasterboard tent” (thermal bypass due to missing sealing around dot-and-dab drywall). If a building inspector had actually checked this before signing it off, it’d have been rejected.
Yes regulation and other stuff is sorely needed. But in the context of what an individual can do 10%-20% is nothing to be sniffed at. And I suspect that severely underestimates the savings compared to the average person, let alone the worst offenders.
If collectively it means 0.00000001% change I don't find it provides much "I did a good thing" value and the time would have been better spent fundraising, petitioning politicians, or maybe even just raising awareness towards say... improving a law that makes a collective 1% difference.
I’m using a metal wafer pool heat exchange and a boost pump for pressure on the outgoing side.
I have to admit I haven’t thought out whether this will galvanically disappear the copper.
I’ve also thought out putting a 50’ spool of pex inline, but unsure of pressure loss issues. Or maybe that would be good for the house pipes…