Weaning yourself off gas - getting it disconnected. Anyone done it?

Would love to do this as I have a Calor LPG tank which is a rip off

My solar system (6.2Kwp) produced 150Kwh in January this year, I used 600Kwh even without space / water heating

@unkel How many additional Kwh do you recon your house needs to heat using mini-split during the winter.. assume at least some of these KWh would be during day at the dearest rate.

I have oodles of roof space but the complication of going greater than 6Kw inverter and maybe going 3 phase seems daunting

Right! Of course, every house in Ireland burning wood would not work at all. But a few here and there is totally fine from a scalability and particle point of view.

Always good to have a back up heat source that doesn't require electricity or fossil fuels, and the answer to that is wood.

I've an aircon system installed which as far as I can see is the same as what youve posted. I mainly use it for cooling during the summer months but it can do heating as well. Nearly 2.5K for one unit and compressor. 2.7 kw like what you're interested in. Have you been in a home heated by these units? They can leave the atmosphere dry and with a weird charge. The unit I got specifically controls for humidity.

Yep.

Different scale, lithium mining is often used as a strawman bogus argument to prevent progress. Not even close to the destruction that fossil fuel harvesting has and continues to cause.

For me, the Greens have been useless. Most policies are EU driven anyway. Doing nothing to really make us think and change our ways really. Total heels dragging on so much

People have been burning wood for 10,000+ years without problem and before that there were natural forest fires . but now with the population so high anything that catches on is likely to cause problems. Remember about 10 years back they were trying to promote mackerel as a sustainable source of fish, then a few years later they were being overfished? The PM2.5 problem is probably being exaggerated to stop a "dash for wood" , air quality very good in Ireland generally but if say 1 million people convert from oil to wood then it will become a problem and there also won't be enough trees to cater for the increase in demand.

The people dying from that are the ones breathing in smog day in day out in China/India and other places where air quality is consistently terrible, radon probably kills a good few more every year over here. I'd say with the daysul cars gone the few areas of Ireland where the air quality occasionaly turns yellow/orange will go back to being green

This saddens me. I mean I "get" why Bord Gais would want a "parting bonus" of ~€800 when you leave as your one less customer to sustain them going forward, but it saddens me that

a) they make people pay such a large amount

b) that it's disincentivizing people (like many here) to try and do their bit for the environment.