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
Renewable Energy with IMS Heat Pumps
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 Nath…
Renewable Energy - Diversity and Inclusion
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 t…
Renewable Heating - Heat Policy Part 2
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 als…
Renewable Heating - Heat Policy and Regulation
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…
Renewable Heating - Bristol Heating Engineers
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 t…
Renewable Heating - Heat Pumps
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 ep…
Renewable Heating - Solar Thermal
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…
Renewable Heating - An overview
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.r…
Heat Pumps in the UK - An Introduction
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 & Heati…
Diploma Plumbing Students looking for Apprenticeships
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 enro…
Heating System Training at The Heating Academy
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 engin…
IMI Hydronic Engineering Chat with Alex, Luke and Scott.
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 vie…
Plumbing Apprenticeships and What its Like to be a Plumbing Apprentice
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 di…
IMI Training with The Heating Hub
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 engine…
Gas Safety Week 2019 with Gas Safety Super Heroes and the Gas Safe Register
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…
MCS and RHI Problems in Renewable Technology - a late night chat in Wales with Heating Engineers Steve, Brandon and Dyfed
In part one of this late night discussion Brandon, Steve and Dyfed chat about some of the practical misconceptions surrounding heat pumps, rural oil heating and MCS paperwork.
There is a…
BetaTalk Revision Science 1(a) Mass, Weight and SI units of Measurement
Plumbing Science and the relationship between Mass and Weight. The episode also discusses the SI Unit of measurement system.
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BetaTalk Revision H&S 3(a) Ladders and Step ladders
BetaTalk Revision - Health & Safety 2(b) Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) and Personnel Protective Equipment PPE
Revision podcasts for construction, plumbing and electrical students with employability tips. Great for flip learning and evidencing differentiation.
Discusses how the CDM regulations ar…
BetaTalk Revision - Health & Safety 2(a) COSHH, RIDDOR and PUWER
Revision podcasts for construction, plumbing and electrical students with employability tips. Great for flip learning and evidencing differentiation.
Discusses the Control Of Substances …