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Travis Johnson wrote:So I have extensive geothermal heat set up, yet found in the summer that same system cools my house.
Steve Farmer wrote:
Travis Johnson wrote:So I have extensive geothermal heat set up, yet found in the summer that same system cools my house.
Interesting... Have you got a thread or a post about this? Im looking to set up a simple geothermal cooling system along the lines of a copper coil in the ground with water pumped thru it, so i can cool a subsurface shallow dew pond. We have zero precipitation for about 360 days of the year but we have humid sea air and most nights we are tantalisingly only a couple of degrees over the dew point. If i can lose those couple of degrees underground then i should be able to condense a fair bit of water from the air...
Travis Johnson wrote:
I think for what you would want, I might just go with PEX since it is so much cheaper then copper tubing though, and comes in long, long lengths....
… I often thought instead of using electricity though, a person could use wind power. It need not be an extensive system, just a horizontal windmill ...
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