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  1. ‘Equipping new homes with heat pumps, solar panels and high-grade insulation at the time of construction would have cost between £5,000 and £8,500 for most of the period since 2016.

    Housebuilders, however, have long claimed building to such standards would be prohibitively expensive.’

    Europe manages to do this, even US have higher rate of take up of heat pumps than UK.

    It’s a dirty race to the bottom in the UK because of lobbying.

    #housebuilding
    #Retrofit
    #EnergyEfficiency

  2. A Solari Mechanical Digital Clock Hack With A Little Extra - [Alfredo Cortellini] was perusing an antique shop in Bologna, and came across a ni... - hackaday.com/2022/02/14/a-sola #clockhacks #flipclock #retrofit #servo #stm32