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37 comments on British MP interviews David Strahan, author "The Last Oil Shock"

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Chris Vernon on July 17, 2007 - 7:51am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

That's a really interesting decision making process. Many stakeholders and an incomplete situation awareness. What is the justification for the change? Is the existing (gas?) boiler at end of life? Is heat currently a public (within the building), non-rival good leading to inefficiencies? "Privatisation" is expected to lead to increased efficiency?

It might be worth designing a flyer detailing the situation with UK gas, our coming reliance on imports etc., questioning the wisdom of major gas investment.

With a large building like that a large common boiler sounds like a good idea - could it be replaced with a single combined heat and power boiler? With many users, load would be smoother than single residences.

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noutram on July 18, 2007 - 8:01am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Hi Chris -the decision to go from the water and space heating communal boiler to individual ones for water/heat is being driven mainly by the high price of replacing all the communal pipework from the boiler to the individual flats...

And I have already made a flyer! I'm serious about this -if they go ahead with this I will sell up as I don't see a future here. Of course I will try and get 120 new TOD readers first!

Nick.

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