Cool Britannia: le pompe di calore che tengono il passo con il tempo selvaggio del Regno Unito
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/cool-britannia-the-heat-pumps-keeping-pace-with-the-uks-wild-weather
di F0urLeafCl0ver
Cool Britannia: le pompe di calore che tengono il passo con il tempo selvaggio del Regno Unito
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/cool-britannia-the-heat-pumps-keeping-pace-with-the-uks-wild-weather
di F0urLeafCl0ver
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My neighbour has one – they’re good but MUCH LOUDER than you’d think.
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The UK needs to wake up and rollout air conditioning (which contrary to this article IS what an air to air heat pump is) ASAP. Summers are only getting hotter, the grid is getting greener (especially in summer months) and it’s a no brainier. Cannot wait to get it fitted one day
“The air-to-air heat pump provides heating in the winter but *acts like an air conditioner* in the summer months.”
Did the journalist wrote this while overdosing on fent? Air to Air heatpumps **ARE AIR CONDITIONERS.**
“The International [Energy](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/energy) Agency has warned that growing demand for cooling could put a strain on electricity grids and climate goals. ” Lol we are woefully unprepared to have all electric vehicles and heat pumps. What are we even doing anymore?
We’ve had these installed at home with units in every room. They are the future. Norway has the biggest adoption rate of heat pumps in Europe and the vast majority are A2A air con units. Just thought I’d point that out before somebody hits me with the usual “wE dOn’T nEeD aIrCoN iN tHiS cOuNtRy”
Good luck getting the private housing groups to install these things.
My place has black mold in the bathroom walls with windows and doors that are drafty at best.
Right now they are basically illegal in Wales for the majority of the country (a consultation is going through now to align the rule with England)
Heat pumps and all heat pump components must be 3m from the boundary in wales. The majority of wales housing stock is 1 Rod wide (5.029m).
So all those terrace houses are usually on <6m wide plots, which means illegal on the entire plot
Hopefully they will get their heads out of their arse soon and sort it out so it is down to a 1m restriction
As with normal heat pumps, not every house is suitable for these unfortunately – in fact even less so than normal heat pumps, as most houses will require reconfiguration to be able to support the cooling functions of the pumps that do both.
I believe the grants would still be given if you’re replacing your boiler and putting one of these in though, as the grants are for replacement of fuel based systems only. Not that you probably would, but if you already had a heat pump and you wanted a pump that could do both, you wouldn’t be eligible for the grant
According to the article, these air to air systems can’t heat hot water, so another system is required, with associated high maintenance costs.
Surely there must be a system that can heat air and water?
We have heat pumps in Norway so getting heat pumps that will work just fine through UK winters should be relatively easy. As a bonus you’ll have AC in the summer.
Had one of these installed last year. Keeps the house warm in the winter, and blows in cool air in the summer. All while significantly reducing carbon emissions. All in an old house with double glazing and loft insulation.
Needless to say I won’t be going back to a gas boiler again.