Microwave boiler unveiled as potential replacement for the UK's gas boilers

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The new microwave boilers join heat pumps and hydrogen as potential solutions to decarbonise heat in the UK, responsible for around a seventh of the country's total CO2 emissions

A new microwave boiler that could have the potential to replace much of the UK's soon-to-be-redundant army of gas boilers was unveiled this week by British tech firm Heat Wayv. The new boilers, which...

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