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Air-source heat pumps are the best heating choice for most people.
Drawn from what David MacKay said
Subjectenergy
What David MacKay actually said
- David MacKay Physicist
I therefore suggest air-source heat pumps are the best heating choice for most people.
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↗Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk
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MacKay says air-source heat pumps are the best heating choice for most people. Handmer explains their slow uptake as a rational refusal: a heat pump is a twenty-year bet on the price of electricity, and most homeowners will not make it. Being the best choice and being a bet nobody takes are compatible, and the gap between them is the whole of heating policy.
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