Heat pumps have the mythic characteristic of providing a nominal yield of more than 100%, with values in the range of 200-400%. This is due to the few energy necessary, to make the heat transfer fluid transport the captured heat, in comparison to the amount of heat offtaken from the atmosphere or the soil. But,…
Like a lot people, when the covid-19 broke out in our country and you couldn’t open the radio or the tv without hearing about it, I wondered how a pandemy spread. While the basic law derives from a simple differential equation, the reality is a bit more complicated, and the implications are much more widespread. Simply…
No, it is not a remake of a song of Serge Gainsbourg (See, sex & Sun) nor a reshuffling of a jazz band (Earth, Wind and Fire), but the title of a document (https://ecolo.be/terre-mer-soleil-10-mensonges-nuclearistes-et-3-scenarios-verts/) written by the Green (environmentalists political party) in Belgium, I read a couple of months ago. Despite its title, this document…
Already since a couple of years distribution grid operators (DGO’s) are charging extra cost to the photovoltaic solar panels (PV) owners through the so called “Prosumer” tariff, in particular in Flanders. DGO’s argued the compensation of the electricity offtaken in the winter by the production injected in the summer causes financial imbalances in detriment of…
Some people claim hydrogen as being THE solution for the future energy source. Others are seeing methane as being the right answer to run through the energy transition, and even for further when produced on a renewable way. But let us deepen in the matter and analyse both, without a priori, purely along the energetic…