http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/8343 en_GB_uk OneWorld UK - UK/English/OneWorld UK/Get involved/Blogs/Carbon Countdown/carbon blogs/Getting Down to Detail/Home heating Build a Solar Space Heater http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76452 from alternative energy: Complete plans and instructions of how to build your own solar heating system including detailed information about how the system operates, how it performs and what costs are involved. Image: Solar barn project Where there's fire, there's no smoke http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76105 from ecotivity: For an economical and practical solution to meeting at least some of your home’s energy needs, you should seriously consider wood-fuelled heating. Image: Wood-burning stove burning carbon-neutral wood An idiot's guide to ground source heat pumps http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75857 from downsizer.net: Ahh, warmth...we all want it. Here's a way of getting some. Micro-CHP: It heats and powers homes http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75627 from Ramsay Home blog: Bernard Malin is the first person in Massachusetts to own a residential 'micro combined-heat-and-power' system, also known as micro-CHP. But he’s not likely to be the last. Image: Bernard Malin’s micro-CHP Fuel Cell to Slash Electric Bills? http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75178 from The Energy Blog: A UK company has successfully designed, built and tested a 1kW fuel cell stack - the fundamental building block of micropower generation - which can generate sufficient power for the average home. Fuel cells and CHP http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74736 from Renewable Energy Access: A new ceramic fuel cell stack could be integrated into a micro-CHP system. Eco-farm project in north Wales http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74555 from Mur Crusto eco-farm blog: Passive solar, microCHP and other renewable energy sources should help make this farmhouse energy neutral. Green building: Keeping cool and staying warm http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74480 from inhabitat blog: Four basic plans of attack for making sure your home is best suited for both your indoor comfort and the global climate. Image: Green building logo Heat pumps: a hard look at running costs http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74112 from The Greening of Hedgerley Wood blog: "Now after ten months of operation and a lot of adjustments, we are getting a clearer idea of the running costs," explains Peter Armstrong. Insulate, insulate, insulate http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74111 from The Greening of Hedgerley Wood blog: Before next winter we want to try and improve the performance, and cost, of the ground heat pump system (visit Home Heating link on left for more). So one clear step was to put in more insulation. Could home CHP be the future? http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71237 from Cleantechblog: A new type of combined heat and power microgeneration system, the Home Energy Station, will also produce hydrogen to fuel up the family car. Micro combined heat and power on trial http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/70820 from Green Car Congress: This first US domestic trial of a micro-CHP system offers more than 85% efficiency in converting fuel energy into useful heat and electric power. This is a big improvement over conventional heating appliances and grid-supplied electric power. Just what does a heat pump cost? http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69939 from Peter Armstrong's blog: It’s become clear from monitoring electricity use over the 3 months that the heat pump has been running that it is using far too much current. Today Dave Greenwood from ICE Energy, who first introduced me to the idea of heat pumps, came out to find out what was wrong with the set-up. It's great that it's carbon-free, but hardly viable if it costs even more than oil. So what can be done? Switch on http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69934 from Peter Armstrong's blog: The day arrives... After all the weeks of preparation, Dean from ICE Energy arrived this morning for the commissioning of the heat pump system. The sequence was: check all the plumbing and electrics and then add glycol to both the ground loops. But will it work? Ground Heat Pump Underway http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69580 From Peter Armstrong's blog:At last we are underway with our heat pump system. The instruction manual says: dig trench, lay pipe, pressure test and backfill. But it ain't that easy. We've got excellent JCB drivers, Diddy and Richard, working with our long-time builder, John. We plan a route across the lawn and through the wood that gives us the necessary 400 metres of trench. We've decided to cut a nine inch trench for each pipe, rather than a 1 metre trench for a pair, because of the