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2022

Setback: Should you lower your heating overnight? (19th December)
- Should you turn down your heating overnight?
Estimating the heat capacity of my house (19th December)
- This allows me to work out the ‘time constant’ for my house.
Cold Weather Measurements of Heat Transfer Coefficient (11th December)
- Cold Weather is a great for measuring the true heat requirements of a dwelling.
Is it possible to live a carbon-zero life? (21st November)
- I gave a talk to 6th formers about Climate Change

Energy Consciousness Raising (14th November)
- Reading one’s energy meters and recording results in a spreadsheet is a great way to understand the heat flows into and out of a dwelling.
What to do on the coldest day of the year? (7th November)
- Cold Weather is a great for measuring the true heat requirements of a dwelling.
Weather Compensation (21st October)
- Tweaking Weather Compensation on the heat pump to improve room temperature control.

Review of Vaillant Arotherm plus heat pump (19th October)
- It’s a great heat pump but the manual and apps and software are abysmal.
Heating my home (18th October)
- A rather silly video about how home heating actually works!

Talk about Heat Pumps (5th October)
- (almost) Everything you wanted to know about heat pumps. View on YouTube to see the many insightful questions and answers.

Non, Je ne regrette rien: update (26th August)
- A look at the impact of increased energy prices
What Else Can I do? (14th July)
- What else could I possibly do to minimise CO2 emissions
First Winter with a Heat Pump (27th April)
- A discussion of the performance of the heat pump.
Could you heat your house with a hairdryer? (12th April)
- Even in the coldest weeks, the average electrical power used by the heat pump last winter was less than 800 watts i.e. less electricity than it takes to run a hairdryer – on its lowest setting!
March (8th April)
- A review of heating flows and costs in March
What Size Heat Pump Do I Need? A Rule of Thumb (5th April)
- A rule of thumb for sizing heat pumps based on gas consumption.
- View on YouTube to see the many insightful questions and answers.

Heating Degree Days (15th March)
- Four articles on their incredibly useful idea!
- Heating Degree Days:1:
  - A brilliant idea
- Heating Degree Days:2:
  - Do they work?
- Heating Degree Days:3:
  - How do they vary?
- Heating Degree Days:4:
  - Three numbers you need to know about your home
Another reason to stop using gas (6th March)
- Cooking with gas emits more NOX into your home than traffic fumes!
Heat Pump Explainer (24th February)
- Everyone is talking about heat pumps. But how do they work?

Reducing CO2 Emissions from my home (4th February)
- A talk I gave to the local Friends of the Earth

Carbon accounts 2021: looking back and looking ahead (2nd January)
- A review of how the reductions in CO2 are going.

November 2021: Heating and Carbon Emissions (1st December)
A summary of the way all the elements of our retrofit work together in November.
- Insulation reduced heat demand by half
- Solar PV met 20% of our electricity demand.
- Battery allowed time-shifting, avoiding peak rate electricity
- Air source heat pump operated with more than 300% efficiency
The Role of a Battery in Meeting Winter Electricity Demand(26th November)
- Details of how Solar PV with a battery saves emissions even in winter.
A weekend away… (15th November)
- An article about Weather Compensation with Heat Pumps
Heat Pump Operation: What it costs. And what it costs me (26th October)
- Details of what I actually pay to heat my home: almost nothing
Heat Pump Operation: First Space-Heating Results (25th October)
1000 days of data (9th October)
- A review of the last three years of thermal data on the house.
Controlling Tap Temperatures with a Blending Valve (October 6th)
- How to keep tap water temperatures safe even when the hot water cylinder is very hot.

Carbonaut (6th October)
- Includes videos of a talk describing the entire carbon zero project.
Legionella Protection with Heat Pumps (October 1st)
- Why Heat Pump systems need to worry about Legionella and what to do.
Using Radiators with Heat Pumps (9th September)
- How radiators work and all that.
Assessment of Heat Pump heating water to 50 °C and 70 °C (14st August)
- Looking at the COP of the heat pump when it gets very hot!
Heat Pumps: Power, Noise and Condensation (31st August)
- How heat pumps work, why they are quiet, and how much condensation to expect.
Heat Pump – First Operational Data (14st August)
- Dat showing how the COP of our heat pump is measured.
Boiler Killer Strikes Again (June 10th)
- A piece of nonsense.
Heat Pumps#1 (June 10th)
- An article about how heat pumps work in a domestic setting.
Estimating Rates of Air Change in Homes (June 6th)
- How to use CO2 meter to estimate the rate of air changes in homes.
Gas Boilers versus Heat pumps (May 18th)
- Why gas boilers are still right answer in some circumstances.
Air Conditioning versus Air Source Heat Pump (May 15th)
- Why Air Conditioning might be able to heat our hose with a higher COP than a heat pump.
My Energy Performance Certificate (21st April)
- What does the EPC even mean?
Understanding heat flow in my home: the key graph (15th February)

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