Originally Posted by
bil_s2
We looked at these for our office building to help with heating or even pre-heating hot water as part of our Carbon Commitment Reduction, but we couldn't cost justify them as it would have taken years to break even before we start to save anything. Pretty cool idea though...
That my good man is the problem.
However.....
When you factor the potential rises in fuel to fire conventional heating methods the pay back period will be much quicker - thats point people miss, unft the rise in fuel prices is a theory on its own depending on 'peak' conditions and also supply/demand.
Similalry when considering houses part of the pay back should be an increase in value of the house that sustainable heat and power generation will give rise to, the problem here though is the perception of the general public that sustainability isn't an issue that is or will affect them - wrong!!!!!!!
Finally and most interestingly the UK is well behind the times - this tech is almost 100 years old, in main land Europe - Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and so on its uptake is pretty significant so capital out lay is less.