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.
BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast
Latest Episodes
Chemical Inhibitors, Heat Pumps & Boilers: Why Heating Engineers Prefer VDI 2035 - a Chemical Free Solution to Corrosion
Nathan chats to his friend Ricky from Thoroughflush about water quality in UK heating systems. Ricky leads the way in helping domestic heating engineers prevent corrosion in their boiler and heat p...
Heat Pump Ready Programme 2 with Nesta and Carbon Trust
This episode of Betatalk features Will Rivers, associate director of residential decarbonisation at the Carbon Trust and Madeleine Gabriel, Sustainable Futures Mission Director at Nesta.We discuss the Department of Energy Security and Ne...
Graham Hendra (Haier) on Air to Air Heat Pumps and the "Fridge" Fallacy
In this episode of BetaTalk, Nathan sits down with industry veteran Graham Hendra to unpick the complexities and misconceptions currently stalling the UK’s heat pump rollout. While much of the national conversation is bogged down in rigid techn...
Changing the Apprenticeship model in Plumbing and Heating for the Future Homes Standard
This episode discusses in lay terms the Position Paper which you can find on the betateach website and you can also
Archaeological Engineering: James Twallin on Gas Leaks and Church Heat Pumps
In this episode of BetaTalk, Nathan welcomes back engineer and coder James Twallin to discuss the technical nuances of the UK’s energy transition. While industry debates are often binary, this conversation focuses on objective data regarding ga...