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  2. Boiler scrappage scheme - Wikipedia

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    The total cost was to be £50 million, with a further £150 million for the Warm Front Scheme. [1] To qualify, one had to live in England and have a working G-rated boiler. Successful applicants received a voucher for £400 off the price of either a modern A-rated boiler or a renewable heating system (such as a biomass boiler, heat pump or ...

  3. Furnace (central heating) - Wikipedia

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    One advantage of a boiler is that the furnace can provide hot water for bathing and washing dishes, rather than requiring a separate water heater. One disadvantage to this type of application is when the boiler breaks down, neither heating nor domestic hot water are available. Air convection heating systems have been in use for over a century.

  4. Phase-out of fossil fuel boilers - Wikipedia

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    The International Energy Agency has said that new gas boilers (or gas furnaces) should be banned no later than 2025. [2] Many installations and appliances have a life-span of 25 years, leading for calls that the bans must take place immediately, or at latest by 2025, because otherwise targets of net zero by 2050 cannot or are unlikely to be ...

  5. Meet these retired sisters in their 60s who live on cruises ...

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    Sisters Jo Johnston, 69, and Elaine Durham, 63, cruise full time. Both sisters are retired and single and have collectively spent 1,500 days at sea so far. They've booked their spots on 2025 ...

  6. Queen Elizabeth 2 - Wikipedia

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    Damage from the fire resulted in a replacement boiler having to be fitted by dry-docking the ship and cutting an access hole in her side. [ 68 ] By 1978 QE2 was breaking even with an occupancy of 65%, generating revenues of greater than £30 million per year against which had to be deducted an annual fuel cost of £5 million and a monthly crew ...

  7. The Green Deal - Wikipedia

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    The Green Deal Home Improvement Fund (GDHIF) is a new incentive scheme open to all householders in England and Wales wanting to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. [39] The scheme allows Householders to choose one or both of the two core offers available and may also be eligible to claim up to £7,600 as a bundled package.

  8. Recovery boiler - Wikipedia

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    The air levels in recovery boilers soon standardized to two: a primary air level at the char bed level and a secondary above the liquor guns. In the first tens of years, the furnace lining was of refractory brick. The flow of smelt on the walls causes extensive replacement and soon designs that eliminated the use of bricks were developed.

  9. Water-tube boiler - Wikipedia

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    The only railway use of water-tube boilers in any numbers was the Brotan boiler, invented by Johann Brotan in Austria in 1902, and found in rare examples throughout Europe, although Hungary was a keen user and had around 1,000 of them. Like the Baldwin, it combined a water-tube firebox with a fire-tube barrel.