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"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.  

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Heat Pumps, AI & Donkeys

Heat Pumps, AI & Donkeys

2026-09-0701:04:46

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of BetaTalk, host Nathan welcomes heat pump expert Graham Hendra to discuss his latest project: an AI-driven platform called Energy Donkey, developed in collaboration with Planet Devices. Designed to replace frustrating online forums and standard LLMs that mix reliable and poor advice, Energy Donkey leverages a curated repository of verified engineering data and real-time operational metrics. The system functions across three distinct service levels: Free Home...
On the Tools: What Being a Renewable Heating Engineer Is Really Like Today

On the Tools: What Being a Renewable Heating Engineer Is Really Like Today

2026-08-1801:07:41

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Nathan speaks with Guild engineers Michael Waring (Bromley Energy) and Liam Knowles (The Heating People) about the daily realities of working on the tools in modern heating engineering. They move past surface-level talk to explore what it actually takes to run and grow a high-standard heating business today. Key discussion points include: The Recruitment Struggle: Why finding installers with the right work ethic, care, and attitude matters far more ...
How the Heating Industry Scaled Incompetence

How the Heating Industry Scaled Incompetence

2026-07-1340:44

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I give a brief run down of what is currently happening in the sector. I discuss the recent Installer Show and how the Guild of Master Heat Engineers is attracting lots of attention and how many of the engineers are now offering Air to Air systems to their customers. I also take a look at the competence person schemes (CPS) and the online boiler ordering business models. I then take a bit of a deep dive into the research around online assessment. C...
E.ON & Podero: Can We Automate Whole-Home Energy?

E.ON & Podero: Can We Automate Whole-Home Energy?

2026-06-1159:24

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Guests: Zac Curtis (Innovation Lead for NextGen Home at E.ON) & Chris Bernkopf (CEO of Podero) How do you scale residential Energy as a Service (EaaS) without upfront capital? E.ON and Podero’s 18-home Midlands pilot demonstrates that combining automated zero-upfront multi-asset orchestration (heat pumps, solar PV, batteries, and EV chargers) into a single 10-year fixed tariff wrapper can achieve a +56 Net Promoter Score and stable household comfort. How...
The Phantom Efficiency: Exposing the Engineering Failure of UK Heating Controls

The Phantom Efficiency: Exposing the Engineering Failure of UK Heating Controls

2026-06-0201:07:50

Send us Fan Mail Overview In this episode, we move beyond the industry’s obsession with nominal appliance ratings to confront a uncomfortable truth: "The Phantom Efficiency." We sit down with Robert Whitney to discuss why the UK heating sector is currently failing its first major test in the transition to electrification. We explore why we continue to chase theoretical efficiency gains on a spec sheet while ignoring the systemic failure of control strategies in the real world. This is a deep ...
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