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The Heat Geek: Happier With A Heat Pump and Why Hydrogen is Dead!

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Fully Charged Show Podcast, Robert Llewellyn is joined by Adam Chapman, the Heat Geek himself, to dive into the future of heating our homes.

Starting as a blog, Heat Geek has grown into a transformative training platform for thousands of heating engineers, teaching the physics of moving heat and how to design and install low carbon heating technologies like heat pumps.

Robert and Adam discuss why hydrogen isn’t the future for home heating, the untapped potential of heat pumps, and how most homes don’t need major upgrades to make the switch. They explore how local tradespeople are pivotal to drive the clean energy transition, how we can break the psychological barriers to adopting new technologies to enable homeowners to start saving money, improve efficiency and reduce carbon!

With 28 million homes to tackle, Heat Geek is on a mission—and the excitement about efficiency is contagious. Enjoy!  @HeatGeek   @fullychargedshow   @EverythingElectricShow 

To find out more about Heat Geek, check out: https://www.heatgeek.com/

00:00 Introduction

03:10 Adam Chapman, The Heat Geek

12:30 Heating Engineers are essential

17:59 Delicious Low and Slow Heating

22:39 Air-to-Air and Air-to-Water Heat Pumps

26:54 Heat Pumps as Standard in New Homes?!

29:13 Heat Batteries, Tepeo ZEB & Heated Skirting Boards

35:29 Microbore Plumbing

37:14 Efficiency First!

40:55 Hydrogen and mad rants...!

46:35 Skills shortage

49:30 District Heating

54:02 Enormous Opportunities

59:10 Concluding thoughts

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast.

0:07.0

Today we are talking about how we keep ourselves warm in winter without burning anything.

0:14.0

That is the critically important topic that we are all looking at and it's something I've been through in my own house. A lot of people

0:22.2

I know are doing the same things with a lot of discussions in, particularly in the UK, but also

0:28.2

around the world about heat pumps and how air source heat pumps and how efficient they are and

0:33.1

how difficult they are to use and they don't work in work in my house they won't work i thought it's

0:39.1

worth asking someone who actually knows what they're talking about and so i'm talking today to

0:45.1

adam chapman who founded a amazing uh organization called heat geek and uh please do check out the links

0:53.6

i will put the links uh to heat geek in the show notes for this episode because it's really worth watching some of the work they're doing. They're training people to be good heat pump and home heating installers. And they're developing working with the technology they kind of know how

1:12.7

this stuff works and it does work and it's really it's a really important topic plus

1:18.9

adam is just an absolute joy to to he's such an enthusiast he's such an amazing man he's

1:26.0

doing such incredible work real real proper, real proper privilege to talk to him. We're definitely getting back on the show as well. He's just a really extraordinary man. So we go through all the aspects of how you heat your home, about insulation, about heat pumps about burning gas in gas boilers, about hydrogen heating,

1:45.2

all those things discussed in joyous and complex depth, but at a level that anyone can understand,

1:52.2

which is what is the real joy of this. So it's been such a thrill to do this. Very quick plug for

1:58.6

our live shows, one coming up in Sydney, then in London.

2:03.4

Then I can't remember after that.

2:05.2

I'll do that another time.

2:06.4

Those are the two that are coming up soon, where things like incredibly well-informed

2:11.7

people who really understand things like heat pumps and home insulation and, you know,

2:16.4

how you can heat your home without burning

2:18.5

stuff, they're there on site and you can talk to them. Really, really important aspect of what we do,

2:24.2

as well as all the test drives of electric cars and bikes, et cetera, et cetera. So that's it. I don't want to go on

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