air source heat pumps
air source heat pumps can extract heat from cold air!

Air source heat pumps take heat from the air and concentrate it into heat for your home or hot water. They use a relatively small amount of electricity to create a lot of heat.

What’s so great about air source heat pumps?

  • Air source heat pumps can produce more than 3 times the amount of energy they consume.
  • They can reduce your heating bills by as much as 60%.
  • Air source can reduce a domestic  carbon footprint by up to 5 tonnes per year.
  • Heat pumps have a lifespan of 50 years, far more than the average boiler’s lifespan of just 15 years.

The Government has recently announced that from April 2011 it will reward homes and businesses that generate their own heat – this is called the Renewable Heat Incentive. You will be paid for every unit of heat that you produce, making the financial equation even more attractive than it is now. 

Contact us for more information on the Renewable Heat Incentive.

 

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Flying is ok because aviation only produces a few percent of global CO2 emissions.

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Flying is ok because aviation only produces a few percent of global CO2 emissions.


Truth: Globally, it is true that aviation does not produce more than a few percent of CO2. However if you take a single intercontinental flight every year, this is likely to dominate your own personal CO2 emissions.
More importantly, emitting the gas high up in the atmosphere means that the global warming effect of every tonne of CO2 emitted by a plane is 2-4 times worse than that of the same tonne emitted on the ground!
Another problem is the speed of growth of the aviation industry: between 1990 and 2001, UK passenger numbers increased by 73%. Over the same period, average fuel consumption per passenger per kilometre travelled actually increased by 12%!  In 2008, aviation was responsible for 23% of transport fuel use in the UK.