From: null@void.com   
      
   "Jim Wilkins"  writes:   
      
   > "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m1frd00zyw.fsf@void.com...   
   >   
   > "Jim Wilkins"  writes:   
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   >> ...   
   > ...   
   > ... . A hostile foreign power could hardly   
   > imagine a better way to cripple American industry.   
   > https://energytransition.org/2025/03/why-the-british-are-still   
   heat-pump-sceptics/   
   >   
   > ...   
      
   The blatant fake is concealing that electricity coming into the home is   
   only 50% of the energy value of the gas burned at the power-station.   
   So if you got a 4-to-1 pumping ratio in the house, that's only 2-to-1 on   
   CO2 emission.  Getting 4to-1 pumping ratio is achieved by well-to-do   
   geeks in an ideal set-up.  Typical ratios are less.   
   *** 50% of the gas's calorific value goes directly to heating the   
   environment if you have an electrically driven heat-pump ***   
      
      
   Self-serving fake 2   
   If lowest CO2 emission were the goal - >>> run a heat-pump at the home   
   on natural gas!!! <<<   
   Then you are back to 100% of the heat of the gas into the home.  Then   
   any heat-pumping is a bonus.   
      
   National security - you could put other fuels down pipelines.  In tough   
   times you could gasify coal.  In Britain we do have coal which is   
   reasonably accessible.   
      
   In the "fly-over" stated in the USA, ground-source heat-pumps are   
   reputed to work well.   
      
      
   Security danger 2   
   If the electrically powered heat pump has to "turn on a   
   resistance-heating element to defrost the heat exchanger" the load on   
   the electricity grid would go up about 8-fold - and this would happen   
   simultaneously across a large proportion of installations at the same   
   time - which would surely "crash" "the grid".   
   People would die.   
      
   The ones who wrote that article are purveyors of a narrative.   
   Evaluate its value - at the lowest end of the scale?   
      
      
   Apparently fuel-powered heat-pumps to exist for large installations -   
   the Government does know that as seen in a report I once read - but no   
   effort has been made to miniaturise these things - no competions,   
   challenges to universities, etc.   
      
   Finally - if heat pumps don't work and people are forced to use   
   resistance electric heaters you are suddenly selling twice the amount of   
   gas and making 4X the profit on that - 8X the income - so there is good   
   reason to have a view which has remarkable-and-surprising (!)   
   omissions...   
      
   Regards,   
   Rich S.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)