Andy Ford

My latest for @BloombergNEF: The Next Half-Trillion-Dollar Market - Electrification of Heat. Following on the heels of renewables and electric vehicles, it's heat pumps and industrial heating where the really big numbers are going to be invested next. bloom.bg/3nc9jl9

Coming soon - the LETI Operational Energy Modelling Guide - written by me (and many others)! Sign up for the launch webinar on 18th April here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/leti-whole-l… @LETI_UK #LETI_OMG

Inaugural lecture "The End of Gas." In this public lecture, I will focus on how we became dependent on gas, why it's so hard to break the habit, & what we can do to help. Attend FREE here: ow.ly/Gzut50MUhfb @LSBU_BEA @RIBA @CIBSE @CITB_UK @theCCCuk @NetZeroUK @BSRIALtd

@ECO2H2OUSE @theolodian @heatpolicyrich Depends where you are but Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage works a treat at scale dutch-ates.com

@theolodian @heatpolicyrich Also depends on the heat demand…

I can't think of a combination that gives better household energy running costs than a heat pump and solar PV.

A depressing but important read on the combination of the political/fossil fuel industry revolving door and all party parliamentary groups being funded by fossil fuel interests - to promote hydrogen. Thanks to @openDemocracy for asking me to comment. opendemocracy.net/en/blue-hydrog…

This week @JacobAinscough interviewed @ChiefExecCCC to find out about the Committee’s recent experiments with deliberative research. Check it out on fdsd.org/2022-interview…

@RobinNicholso14 Enjoyed this one a lot especially explaining Inter-seasonal heat storage to the council!

Completed in 1997, the Archaeolink Visitor Centre In Aberdeenshire was a radically different kind ... cullinanstudio.com/news-update/ah…

Just for clarity for American Furnaces read Boilers in UK

@heatpolicyrich ‘ultimately’ is quite close to reality. There are many years of work needed to produce truly green hydrogen at a scale and distributed at a price anybody might want to pay for a heating fuel and many better more more urgent uses for hydrogen.

🚨#silverbullet alert 🚨 And on the specifics of why hydrogen is a very poor option for heating rechargenews.com/energy-transit… But maybe we can let him off? He's new.

I have just listened to the #BBC4 about #SylviaAnderson the creative force behind #Thunderbirds and all the most memorable puppet series from my youth. Needs correcting I never knew this woman was so significant. Put this right #ITV Long live Lady Penelope

@TiceRichard One the one hand we have Richard Tice, leave campaigner and general grifter, and on the other hand we have Michael Grubb, a professor of energy and climate change at the UCL. Hmm - decisions, decisions. ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jan/…

BOOKING NOW: @LSBU's 5th Climate Emergency Event Costing the Earth: Embodied Carbon & the Race to Net Zero Online webinar Thur 14 OCT 3-5 BST eventbrite.co.uk/e/170420155272 FREE tickets. Stellar line up Opening @Simonsturgis Keynote @dave_cheshire +@UKGBC + more. Do join us!

Insulating homes pays back 4x quicker in the UK from October 2022 compared to 1 year ago. This is because gas prices are skyrocketing and gas is used for heating in ~85% of UK homes. 🧵

We've some big plans @theCCCuk so we need new skills and people. We're integrating our mitigation and adaptation analysis in crucial areas - and coordinating an ambitious new assessment of climate risks. These roles are all open to external candidates theccc.org.uk/about/careers/ 🧵

@MarkSiddallRIBA @borpin True but you need the coolest possible incoming air, mine is brought in below the suspended slab in contact with the ground and works well

@borpin A more accurate name for MVHR would be Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Exchange (MVHE). Why? Because a heat exchanger helps to keep heat in during the winter, and the coolth in during a heatwave. …for MVHE to be successful in a heatwave you need to start with a cool house.

Summer Comfort, Preventing Overheating and #Passivhaus LESSONS FROM THE LAST FEW DAYS: - What are the lessons that you learned? - What would you do differently next time? I’ll start:

@InklingLLP I’ve deployed thermal mass and shade - front room north facing Victorian house a pleasant 26c and a happy dog.

I've deployed the adiabatic cooling (wet hat).

@CardingtonSheds And WHAT A WAY TO ARRIVE!

The Cardington mooring mast design was a very usefull bit of kit. It meant you could moor a 777ft long airship with minimal ground staff. In fact i think the least amount of crew used to moor a ship was as low as 12 once.

Two things I want to shoot into the 🌞 today (apart from the usual): 1. Ppl defending their indefensible carbon-intensive lifestyles as "convenient" or "inevitable" or "comfortable." It's like listening to alcoholics or heroin addicts, in many ways. Listen up. Perhaps ... 1/

@heatpolicyrich Heat the water for your shower and chill while you do. Sounds fair to me.

Have been air conditioning the garden. Would it be wrong to angle it so I can sunbathe in the garden in front of it and not over heat?