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
Comfort As A Service - Sero & Optimised Retrofit
Nathan speaks with his season 4 sponsors Sero and the Welsh Government Optimised Retrofit Programme
Check out what the team all look like here https://youtu.be/vLsZNO9UPuA
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The Heat in Buildings Strategy - A Chat with Mathew Aylott from BEIS
The long awaited strategy was out this week and Nathan had the chance to chat with Matthew who heads up the electrification team.
BEIS have worked hard to pull this strategy together whi…
Frustration With The Boiler Industry
We chat with Kim from the Heat Academy. Kim was asked to help train the supervisors of a large plumbing and heating company who install the heating on large developments (New Builds). H…
Can ALL Homes Be Heated With Heat Pumps - Theoretically YES
You just have Nathan on this episode who wanted to help explain further what is going on with heat in a home e.g. how does heat move, how is heat measured, what is the relationship betw…
Big Heat Pumps - Talking to Dave Pearson from Star Renewable Energy
Big heat pumps powering district heat networks is the topic of conversation. Nathan chats with a well known figure from the vapour compression industry Dave Pearson, the Group Sustainab…
What is a Hydrogen and Hydrogen Ready Boiler?
In this very honest episode Nathan chat's to Martyn Bridges from Worcester Bosch about 100% hydrogen boilers and hydrogen ready boilers, also known as H2 ready boilers.
Worcester Bosch …
What is the Best Boiler - if you can not have a heat pump yet?
What is the best boiler features on some consumer sites. Unfortunately, these consumer sites have very little knowledge around boilers so it is best to take their advice with a pinch of…
Zoning Heat Pumps Can Be Bad For Comfort & Efficiency
Zoning heat pumps and heating systems is the topic of this episode. We chat with Adam Chapman AKA Heat Geek who is one of the BetaTalk Heat Architects about a recent video he published …
Chatting with John Cantor Author of the book Heat Pumps for the Home
John Cantor has been working with heat pumps since the late 70s and with refrigeration much earlier. He wrote his book along with Gavin DJ Harper (one of the BetaTalk guest battery expe…
Decarbonising Heat in America: a conversation with Nate The House Whisperer
Decarbonising heat is a world wide challenge and Nathan had a conversation with Nate in Virginia USA to see what is going on over there.
Season 4 has a short bulletin at the end of each …
Retrofit with PAS2035 and TrustMark
In this episode Nathan chats to his friend Colin King from Sero group who manage the Welsh Governments Optimised Retrofit programme and are season 4 sponsor of BetaTalk. Colin spent tim…
Solar Thermal Hybrid
We have a great chat with regular guest Steve about a solar thermal hybrid system he has recently commissioned for a customer. In the bulletin at the end we speak with Paul, a past pres…
To Heat Pump Hull & Back
Join James P and James C from Elite, a renewable and gas installation company based in Hull.
We hear about their experience with the green homes grant and the renewable heat incentive an…
Evergreen Energy's Approach to the Electrification of Heat
In this last episode of season 3 Nathan speaks with Evergreen Energy about how they will train their installers and engineers for the uptake of heat pumps. Gas engineer Ben was also on …
5 Common Mistakes with Heat Pump Installs (Part 2)
In part 1 we heard Steve's common heat pump mistakes now we get to hear from another #betatalk heat architect Si Poskett.
It's worth remembering heat pumps are just the heat source on a …
5 Common Mistakes with Heat Pump Installs (Part 1)
Heat Pumps are fantastic technology. They first trialed in homes in 1948. But they do have to be installed and used correctly.
In the first episode we listen to Steve, one of the BetaT…
Ground Source & Water Source Heat Pumps
Nathan talks to Victor Hyman who is the executive director of climate care, a cooperative of around 30 HVAC contractors in Ontario Canada, and Robin Curtis who has been involved with gr…
How to Train the Army of Engineers Needed to Decarbonise Heat
Nathan discusses how he thinks LA's will need to know who the good engineers are and how the self employed may not want to become MCS.
He also introduces us to BetaTeach, the methodology…
Community Energy Projects, Energy Hubs & Local Area Energy Plans
Local Area Energy Plans are something this seasons sponsors Energy Systems Catapult are keen to promote. Different parts of the country will require different stratagies to decarbonise …
Are Heat Pumps Cheap to Run
Agile tariffs, wholesale electricity price, peak and off peak electricity are some of the themes being discussed here with Nathan's guests Helen and Karalos from https://www.evergreenen…