BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Visit the BetaTeach Youtube Channel where you'll be able to see my BetaTalk guests.  Please like and subscribe.  00:30 Heat Pump manufacturer training 01:58 Heat Pump supply chain issues. Heat Pump and solar thermal technology is not ordinarily stocked in plumbing merchants. Getting it delivered often involves extra contingency and logistics. 05:36 Solar Thermal suppliers and...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe to this podcast on Spotify and iTunes and find this episode also on the BetaTeach Youtube Channel. Please leave a good review to help others interested in these essential topics find us through search engines.  Heat Pump podcasts I imagine a few and far between. This one likes to meet the engineers installing heat pumps, solar thermal systems etc. to see and understand t...

Send us Fan Mail Phil Hurley MD of NIBE and the vice chairperson of the Heat Pump Association, Paul Hull the campaign director of Gas Safe Super Hero's and Keith Harrison discuss with Nathan on the BetaTeach BetaTallk podcast how gas and oil engineers can transition to low carbon heating technologies such as heat pumps and solar heat. Support the show Learn more about heat pump heating by fol...

Send us Fan Mail Dan and Robert Llewellyn (from Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge fame) are extremely well known for their love of electric vehicles which they discuss on the hugely popular Fully Charged Show. However, they are passionate about ALL forms of renewable energy and will soon be doing a lot more about the available technology to heat our homes and hot water. Dan manages the The Fully C...

Send us Fan Mail Active buildings, energy storage, lithium ion batteries and strategic materials, it's all here. Listen to podcast friend  Dr Gavin Harper a Faraday Institution Research Fellow School of Physics and Astronomy at Birmingham University chat with Dr Jen Baker from SPECIFIC at the University of Swansea about sustainability and second life batteries. Also joining Nathan is the MD f...

Send us Fan Mail Heat Pumps are the topic on the second podcast recorded via Zoom on lockdown. However, this is the first episode to ever be uploaded to youtube which you can fine here https://youtu.be/HynxIiEuP1Y Nathan chats to UK heating engineer Lee Fischer who is based in Lincoln, regular guest Richard Lowes and Jan Rosenow Principal and European Programme Director at the Regulatory Assistanc...

Send us Fan Mail Can Low Loss Headers and Buffer tanks be installed onto heat pump systems and other renewable heating topics are discussed in this episode but also land regeneration and how soil locks in carbon. Nathan speaks with regular guest host Brandon who is currently on lockdown in New Zealand with his family. Some topics discussed: Comparison of New Zealand and UK building regulations Sol...

Send us Fan Mail Low temp heating design along with heat pumps is todays discussion at the HQ of Grant who are well known in the industry.  Grant is essentially an off-grid company known in the heating sector for their oil boilers, heat pumps and Nathan’s favourite: Solar Heat or also known as Solar Thermal. Nathan gets to chat with Grant’s training manager Phil, and two of his favourite engineers...

Send us Fan Mail Ground source heat pumps is still the topic at Kensa. Lots of topics to listen to including: Kensa explain how they are part of the commissioning process  Bill explains the importance of installers and customers understanding controls  We discuss how heat pump systems run very differently to conventional systems and training currently has not been great Dp manufacturers drive the...

Send us Fan Mail Kensa Ground Source Heat Pumps are the topic of this weeks betatalk  podcast. Nathan took along some of his usual guest engineers to Kensa's HQ to have a chat about heat pumps, training and their "shoebox" design for district and community heating systems. Topics discussed are: Geology of the UK  Drilling bore holes for heat pumps Calculating the ground array for gr...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Emma, Sue, Alan, Lee and Andrew members of a team based in Sheffield and Perth Scotland who specialise in heat pump installations. With over a 100 years of combined experience Nathan enjoyed his visit to chat with the team. Nathan and Emma chat regularly on Social Media and her passion about standards and design within this sector really shows through. Listen till the end whe...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nathan travelled to meet Rebecca from Building People and Abi Burns and Leah Robson from Your Energy Your Way. The discussion considered inclusion and diversity within the renewable and construction sector. Abi comes from a research background and is now training with Your Energy Your Way so we touched on training within the renewable sector. Leah does a grand job...

Send us Fan Mail Carbon capture storage, gas networks, Future Homes Standard it's all discussed in part 2 of Ken Bone and Nathan's trip to Cornwall to meet with Richard Lowes. In this episode we are also joined by Sovay Berriman who discusses her transition into the heating world from art and higher education. At the beginning of the episode you will hear Richard talk about the ways engi...

Send us Fan Mail Energy and sustainable policy is the topic of this episode. Nathan travels to meet with Richard Lowes, a wonderful gentleman well known in area of heat policy within the UK. Richard has worked on policy regarding the future of the gas grid and started a PhD in 2014 which looked at the development of policy within the heating industry: how it started and how different interests lob...

Send us Fan Mail Bristol heating engineers Ben, Simon and Craig chat with Nathan about renewables and the gas heating industry. They discuss the importance of heating system design and how it is vital to obtain efficiency. In this episode you will hear about the types of renewable heating these engineers have worked with and how social housing would benefit from renewables and boilers set up effic...

Send us Fan Mail Once again Nathan speaks to Brandon and Richard for this podcast on heatpumps. This time we have Brandon's nephew with us who is an apprentice. So a little training theme within this episode. Accountability is a main theme e.g. what happens if heat pumps are installed incorrectly. Other topics include: Data Efficiency IoT and its use within the heating industry Competence Hea...

Send us Fan Mail Solar Thermal (Solarheat) heating is very misunderstood. It is not only clean it is free and maybe this is why it's not in many of the discourses around decarbonisation. While there are many concerned individuals and organisations engendering discussions around decarbonisation a lot of the time they are misinformed. Take a listen to engineers who work at the coal face of rene...

Send us Fan Mail Renewable heat is a hot topic, pardon the pun, and to kick start a new season of BetaTalk Nathan visits expert engineers Brandon from https://www.btseheating.com/ Ken from https://www.renewable-heat.co.uk/ and Richard from https://theintergasshop.co.uk/ In this episode Nathan introduces MCS who will sponsor this season's episodes. They will all have a renewable heat theme and...

Send us Fan Mail Retrofitting heat pumps or installing heat pumps in new builds is a hot topic. Here Nathan chats with Ken Bone from https://www.renewable-heat.co.uk , Paul from Highland Plumbing & Heating Ltd ( https://t.co/aBzV2fwgCR?amp=1 ) and father and son team James and Ashley from http://h2o-plumbingandheating.co.uk . All have some experience with heat pumps and the episode is to give...

Send us Fan Mail Diploma Plumbing Students make up the majority of students on plumbing courses. Contrary to popular belief, not all school leavers go onto uni to for A levels. Hundreds of thousands enrol each year onto college construction and building services course. Most will never enter industry as the apprenticeship opportunities simple are not out there for these young people, or even the m...

Send us Fan Mail Heating system design is back in vogue (it never should have gone out of fashion as it's extremely vital). Here, Nathan travels to Northampton to visit Kim where he trains heating engineers in system design. It should always be noted that the heat source whether it's a boiler or heat pump requires an efficient heating system otherwise there is no real efficiency. IMI Hyd...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation Nathan chats to Luke, Scott and Alex and discusses how they got into industry. They had all just attended the IMI Hydronic training so we get to listen to their views on what they just learned.  Support the show Learn more about heat pump heating by following Nathan on Linkedin , Twitter and BlueSky

Send us Fan Mail IMI Hydronic training was taking place at the Guilford gas centre being set up by Tony Rees. It gave me the opportunity to speak with some of the plumbing and heating apprentices and diploma students who attend the college there.  This is a 3 parter as I was able to talk to ten students in total. Here are the first three. Fantastic episode this. Learn what our next generation get...

Send us Fan Mail IMI Hydronic training attracts some great engineers. Listen to Nathan chat with Al, Kevin and Jo from The Heating Hub . Topics discussed: How IMI are bringing science back into heat engineering Boiler companies will have to adapt quickly Do sites like BOXT add value to the industry What is The Heating Hub Oversizing Pipework Will smaller boiler companies take the lead Support the...

Send us Fan Mail Gas Safety Week raises awareness within the heating industry and Nathan has been joined by Paul Hull from the Gas Safety Super Heroes and Rob Howard from Gas Safe to discuss the various topics surrounding gas safety. Topics Discussed  What happens on your first gas safe inspection Personal CO alarms Training issues, problems and ACS Could manufactures play a larger role in gas saf...