BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast
"Nathan is brilliant at making the complicated simple..." Amber Rudd (Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 2015-16)
BetaTalk is an award winning podcast for Local Authorities, Social Housing Groups, Think Tanks, Government, Journalists, Consultants, Developers, Gas, Oil and Heat Pump engineers and the general public.
It is hosted by Nathan Gambling who's family have been involved with heat pump technologies for nearly half a century.
"Nathan is one of the UK's clean heat leaders, so I always watch him closely..." Chris Stark (former CEO of the Climate Change Committee and Head of UK Gov. Mission Control)
The podcast features guests from the policy world as well as some of the UK's remarkable heating engineers. It discusses challenges and opportunities with decarbonised heating.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 167
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Exhaust Air Heat Pumps and PVT with NIBE
In this conversation Nathan chats with Jonny Hancock, product manager at NIBE about some of the products and solutions they have on offer including their new exhaust air heat pump being…
Heat Pump Quotations - solving the mystery
*Update: in this episode Damon and host Nathan realised after editing there was a mistake. An easy one to make as engineers like Damon have so many numbers running around in their head.…
How British Gas Zero Will Decarbonise Homes
I really enjoyed this episode chatting with Andrew Middleton, Managing Director at British Gas Zero and Steve Petrie, regional manager at British Gas Zero who also is a former British G…
Whole Life Carbon with Daikin and XCO2
Recycled refrigerant and Energy Performance Declarations are discussed in this episode alongside the wider discussion around whole life carbon and the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Stand…
How to Heat Terrace Houses with Heat Networks
The BetaTalk podcast speaks to friends at Kensa about their approach to using heat pump technology for domestic heating.
Nathan and Wouter Thijssen, MD at Kensa Contracts, explain 5th ge…
The EPC debate
Fantastic guests and a fantastic episode which digs deep into the Energy Performance Certificate.
Nathan is joined by Madhuban Kumar, CEO of Carbon Laces; Stuart Fairlie, MD of Elmhurst…
Are Gas Heating Engineers Valued Enough?
Lots of frustration among gas engineers. Do we value the work they have been doing for so long? They are an incredibly important sector of the heating community as we will be relying on…
Leading Experts Discuss Fabric, Heat Pumps, Innovation and Policy - 100th Episode
This is the 100th episode so a big thank you to all the listeners and all those who have taken part.
BIG THANK YOU TO MyEnergi who are this season's sponsor
It features
- European policy ex…
Building Fabric Issues With Leading Passivhaus Architect Mark Sidall
Mark from the architectural practice LEAP discusses with Nathan airtightness, ventilation, thermal comfort and passivhaus.
Questions arise such as should more loft insulation be put in a…
Measuring the Best Heat Pump System Designs
Measuring Heat pump system design with Brendon from Heacol
Link to slides for the test can be found here
THE TEST RIG
Brendon discusses how he first designed the test rig with Ulster Unive…
Is Transitioning from a Gas Engineer to Heat Pump Engineer Challenging?
We chat to Szymon from Urban Plumbers who is now installing heat pumps to get a glimpse into that journey. Szymon has a great YouTube channel which you can find here
Lear…
Heat Pump Certification with KeyMark
World Ventilate Day
We spoke with Graeme Fox from BESA about the first world ventilate day. You can watch live also their webinar which will also be recorded
12:00pm GMT - Tuesday 8 November 2022
Join our pa…
Boiler or Boiler with a Heat Pump?
We chat to Phil Jones from Alpha about boilers and their need to be working better with proper control.
We also mention the hybrid offering from Alpha where for aprox. £3100 a home owne…
Heat Pumps in Scotland
Fantastic episode with Barry who runs Renewable Heat up in Scotland. We discuss his heat pump journey as well as his work with the plumbing and heating association Snipef.
We discuss lot…
Importance of Modulating Flow Temps - UK's First Modulating Domestic Oil Boiler
Nathan chats to the MD of EOGB about a UK first - a domestic modulating oil boiler.
The boiler uses open therm to modulate the flame and will output different flow temps to the radiators…
What Are the Most Efficient Boilers - modulation & PDHW
We are joined by Richard Burrows from Mid Wales Plumbing and Heating Supplies who is an expert on heating control strategy.
Richard talks about the types of modulation - load compensatio…
Heat Pump Pipework Insulation Problems & Solutions
Nathan chats with his friend Dave who runs and owns Condensate Pro and now Primary Pro.
Primary Pro is a polyethylene product which comes pre painted making it easier to use than class O…
Heating Industry Diversity
Nathan is a big supporter of diversity within the heating industry and this special episode is the first ever BetaTalk podcast takeover e.g. Nathan is not in it.
The episode has been ho…
Heat Pump Policy in Practice
Nathan has a great chat with Daniel Newport from the Tony Blair Institute for Climate and one of his regular renewable heating engineers James from Elite Services Group based in Hull.
Da…