Farewell radiators? Testing out electric wallpaper in the UK

[Still Waters]

Around 23 million homes are currently connected to the gas grid in the UK. But the government wants all homes in the UK to have phased out gas-fired boilers by 2035. Homes currently account for about 17% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, and this fossil fuel-based way of heating our homes is responsible for much of it.

As well as not requiring gas, electric wallpaper is also thought to produce better air quality in properties. It doesn't dry out the air so much and generates less mould, for instance around windows. Poor air quality has been linked to health problems in some social housing properties.

Philip Steele is future technologies evangelist at Octopus Energy. Part of his job is to test out new gadgets, and he has been looking at another version of the wallpaper, made by British company Nexgen Heating .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64402524

[pellinore]

Graphene is being used, this was a new material developed by the University of Manchester in 2004 but has been too expensive for commercial use up to now.

Graphene research, innovation and collaboration | Graphene Flagship (graphene-flagship.eu)

Edited February 5 by pellinore