My heat pump: a personal story about a broken heating industry (greenallianceblog.org.uk)

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It was a freezing Friday evening early in February 2023, when my boiler broke. An engineer was called, several cold days passed, and his declaration came in sombre tones: ‘uneconomic to repair’. Li…

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[-] centof@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

-50C !!! When did that happen?

[-] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

A couple of weeks ago on a Saturday. The actual outside temp was -50 overnight but “feels like” -60.

[-] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Here is a comment with a picture of my weather app from that weekend.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/7759911

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