Gardens in my mind never need water https://permies.com/t/75353/permaculture-projects/Gardens-Mind
Castles in the air never have a wet basement https://permies.com/t/75355/permaculture-projects/Maison-du-Bricolage-house
'Theoretically this level of creeping Orwellian dynamics should ramp up our awareness, but what happens instead is that each alert becomes less and less effective because we're incredibly stupid.' - Jerry Holkins
Iterations are fine, we don't have to be perfect
Brandon Gutierrez wrote:Wow. The feed back is amazing and there are some great ideas. Let give a little more info: I am not working off grid just looking to add supplemental heat to my home. Currently the baseboard heater is a cast iron propane unit. I quit using it because it became to expensive and replaced the heat source with 2 5-ton heating and cooling units (all electric). I live in New Mexico and where my house is the elevation is 6,900 ft.
I like the idea of using direct heating of the water but would like to have the use of the energy storage (batteries) for other uses during non winter months. I am a complete virgin to solar use and thought this would be a good way to start without to large of an upfront cost.
'Theoretically this level of creeping Orwellian dynamics should ramp up our awareness, but what happens instead is that each alert becomes less and less effective because we're incredibly stupid.' - Jerry Holkins
so the least expensive solar option since you have the heat pumps is to use them more and add a net metered solar array. Heated solar hot water produces about 3 times the HEAT kWs as the same area of solar electric panels but the heat pumps give you about a 3 to 1 advantage over using electricity to heat things directly. All that to say there would be no advantage to using solar hot water. If you did not have any of that infrastructure already solar hot water would make sense.Brandon Gutierrez wrote:Wow. The feed back is amazing and there are some great ideas. Let give a little more info: I am not working off grid just looking to add supplemental heat to my home. Currently the baseboard heater is a cast iron propane unit. I quit using it because it became to expensive and replaced the heat source with 2 5-ton heating and cooling units (all electric). I live in New Mexico and where my house is the elevation is 6,900 ft.
I like the idea of using direct heating of the water but would like to have the use of the energy storage (batteries) for other uses during non winter months. I am a complete virgin to solar use and thought this would be a good way to start without to large of an upfront cost.
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