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BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast Nathan Gambling BetaTeach
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BetaTalk is the recent winner of the British Renewable Energy Awards 2020 communication category “which recognises an organisation who has done most to enhance awareness or championed positive change for renewables or clean technology with key opinion formers: parliament, government or the public”Nathan Gambling known as BetaTeach on Twitter discusses energy and the transition to low carbon technologies such as solar thermal and heat pumps with some of the best renewable engineers. He is uniquely known in the industry for spotting the exceptionally high talented heating engineers who are out at the coal face doing their bit to decarbonise our homes and buildings.
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Homes with NO Energy Bills - The Octopus Ilke Homes
Can a home have no energy bills? Yes. We chat to Nigel from Ilke Homes who have just partnered with Octopus Energy for an exciting project where the occupant is expected to pay no energy bills.
The homes will use heat pumps, lots of solar PV and batteries. Hear how they work on this episode.
This episode is accompanied by a special patron episode where we go more into the detail of these Octopus and Ilke zero energy bill homes
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Energy Storage & Heat Batteries using WarmStone and Phase Change Materials
Meet Nathan's guest Tom Lowe who heads up the Thermal Storage Association with founding members SunAmp, Caldera and Tepeo.
Tom has had previous roles in OFGEM, British Gas and Buld Energy so there is lots of great discussion in this episode
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Carbon Coop Retrofit - a Conversation with Marianne, Matt & Johnathan
In this first episode of season 6 I chat with some of the people in the Carbon CoOp team
You can hear what they are all about and how they have been helping people navigate through the cacophony of retrofit and renewable heating advice. They are one of my favourites out there and really understand the challenge.
Matt is very much an enthusiast, like myself, in monitoring buildings and heating with sensors etc in order to engender better outcomes and encourage learning.
In keeping with an IoT theme please welcome my new sponsor: Farnell, who have an event happing soon. They also have a Raspberry Pi Solutions Kit and you will hear me discuss Raspberry Pi with the Carbon Coop team on this episode.
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The Heating Controls Industry - A Chat with David Newton
Nathan speaks to his good friend and his control expert David Newton. David started his career in controls back in the 70s and has interesting stories.
The conversation centres around the fact it is not a technical problem which needs solving but a human one.
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A Conversation with The European Heat Pump Association
In this episode Nathan talks to Thomas Nowak the Secretary General of the EHPA.
Thomas has a wealth of knowledge in the European Heat Pump space and has been disseminating good advice for quite some time.
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Protons for Breakfast - Flow Temp and HTC Measurements
In this episode Nathan chats to retired physicists Michael de Podesta about his video on how to quickly get an idea of the heat loss of your home.
You can follow him on Twitter at @Protons4B and find his blog here
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