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The need to limit greenhouse gas emissions to as low as practical as soon as is practically possible is assumed.

One of my goals is to make suggestions on how individuals can reduce energy consumption so that collectively we need less power stations in the future to meet demand making the task of replacing them with renewables less of a challenge. Furthermore to do this without a loss in individual wellbeing.

The purpose of this page is to eventually provide direct links within this blog to specific posts on viewpoints of practical ways of aiming towards net zero emissions of  greenhouse gases.

Posts.

* Reducing our home heating demand from 12,000 kWh  year to under 2,000 kWh per year with improved comfort.

The above posts includes basic low cost high impact  improvements, heat pumps and instantaneous heating, the optimum use of heating control settings, the advantages of low temperature and high temperature heating, and making use of waste heat and passive solar gain.

* The benefits  from having an air source heat pump installed.

* Reasoning for Replacing a gas boiler with an air source heat pump.

The above posts considers:-Reducing personal carbon footprint, helping towards energy companies and government having the incentive to install more renewables, gaining first hand knowledge to evaluate negative myths on heat pumps, good installation procedures and optimum control settings to minimise consumption while maintaining or improving on comfort.

* The case for an instantaneous electric water heater (along with a heat pump).

(Proposed) posts: (These will eventually become links)

*Optimising the use of the heat pump.

* getting on the optimum heat curve.

* Using  Temperature Modulation to stabilise room temperature.

* Advantages of large radiators.

* Low temperature versus high temperature radiators

* Should heating be on all the time or just when you need it?

* How the hysteresis curve impacts heating and prevents rapid cycling of the heat pumps

* Low consumption versus high efficiency?

* Big energy, big government or the individual consumer?

* Why hydrogen is very unlikely to have widespread use in replacing the domestic gas boiler.

* Why there are claims of future ways to heat our homes that are really unrealistic.