Friggin shitty heat
psycodads brain shutdown, but
corn unaffected.
AC affordable
with few satoshis, but then
no use in winter.
geothermal rocks
both heat and AC combined
a ground source heatpump
takes heat from the house
preheats your hot water tank
desuperheater
I use geothermal energy to heat the house. It's really efficient with floor-heating and winter-optimized photovoltaic (vertical panels, higher altitudes with less fog, battery), but i avoid cooling in summer at all cost, because there are problems with condensed water from high air humidity. Better use (solar powered) A/C for that usecase, because it also dries the air used for cooling.
Unfortunately
drilling here is expensive
like one btc per hole.
...
We inquired a geothermal heat pump a few years ago because the idea is brilliant and effective compared to air heat pumps but when the guy started to list expenses we realized we would well end up in the 6 figure range just for drilling the hole, I guess at current corn prices the whole setup would cost over 1 BTC, possibly up to 1.5 easily. An AC costs me <$10k installed and probably like $200-500 per summer for leccy. For heating in winter we spend like ~1200 for oil + ~500 for wood.
That said, the amortization time frame for such an apparatus is well beyond the reach of my mortal residues. Still like the concept and I guess once installed and paid you enjoy (almost) free heating and cooling.
ah i went horizontal loop as i have the land. so 2000 foot loop of pex buried six feet down in my back yard. mucho cheaper than drilling as only needed an excavator to trench 6 feet down, lay the pex and fill it back in.
and at the time we needed to replace our ageing boiler heat system a decade or so ago there were some nice tax rebates and zero percent loans to go with geothermal installs.
Interesting...overall i see up to 30K cost. i wonder why in EU it is a six figure number? maybe the difference between vertical and horizontal?
I also wonder if it has enough oomph to "fight" 100F (about 38C) summer air around here. I had to install a larger tonnage A/C a few years ago as it was working almost constantly during the day.
mine has no problem heating the house to ~70F at 0F outside, so ~70F delta
so i assume it works about as efficiently the other way as its just a reversible heat pump.
so ~70F delta means it should handle well over 120+ outside, and keep 70F inside.
i have no want to test it though.
thanks...it would be my preference too, lol
the darned job brought me where i am, at least for now.
Unfortunately
drilling here is expensive
like one btc per hole.
...
We inquired a geothermal heat pump a few years ago because the idea is brilliant and effective compared to air heat pumps but when the guy started to list expenses we realized we would well end up in the 6 figure range just for drilling the hole, I guess at current corn prices the whole setup would cost over 1 BTC, possibly up to 1.5 easily. An AC costs me <$10k installed and probably like $200-500 per summer for leccy. For heating in winter we spend like ~1200 for oil + ~500 for wood.
That said, the amortization time frame for such an apparatus is well beyond the reach of my mortal residues. Still like the concept and I guess once installed and paid you enjoy (almost) free heating and cooling.
ah i went horizontal loop as i have the land. so 2000 foot loop of pex buried six feet down in my back yard. mucho cheaper than drilling as only needed an excavator to trench 6 feet down, lay the pex and fill it back in.
and at the time we needed to replace our ageing boiler heat system a decade or so ago there were some nice tax rebates and zero percent loans to go with geothermal installs.
Interesting...overall i see up to 30K cost. i wonder why in EU it is a six figure number? maybe the difference between vertical and horizontal?
I also wonder if it has enough oomph to "fight" 100F (about 38C) summer air around here. I had to install a larger tonnage A/C a few years ago as it was working almost constantly during the day.
mine has no problem heating the house to 70F at 0F outside, so 70F delta
so i assume it works about as efficiently the other ways as its just a reversable heat pump.
so 70F delta means it should handle 140F outside, and keep 70F inside.
i have no want to test it though.
Unfortunately
drilling here is expensive
like one btc per hole.
...
We inquired a geothermal heat pump a few years ago because the idea is brilliant and effective compared to air heat pumps but when the guy started to list expenses we realized we would well end up in the 6 figure range just for drilling the hole, I guess at current corn prices the whole setup would cost over 1 BTC, possibly up to 1.5 easily. An AC costs me <$10k installed and probably like $200-500 per summer for leccy. For heating in winter we spend like ~1200 for oil + ~500 for wood.
That said, the amortization time frame for such an apparatus is well beyond the reach of my mortal residues. Still like the concept and I guess once installed and paid you enjoy (almost) free heating and cooling.
ah i went horizontal loop as i have the land. so 2000 foot loop of pex buried six feet down in my back yard. mucho cheaper than drilling as only needed an excavator to trench 6 feet down, lay the pex and fill it back in.
and at the time we needed to replace our ageing boiler heat system a decade or so ago there were some nice tax rebates and zero percent loans to go with geothermal installs.
Interesting...overall i see up to 30K cost. i wonder why in EU it is a six figure number? maybe the difference between vertical and horizontal.
I also wonder if it has enough oomph to "fight" 100F (more than 38C) summer air around here. I had to install a larger tonnage A/C a few years ago as it was working almost constantly during the day.
Unfortunately
drilling here is expensive
like one btc per hole.
...
We inquired a geothermal heat pump a few years ago because the idea is brilliant and effective compared to air heat pumps but when the guy started to list expenses we realized we would well end up in the 6 figure range just for drilling the hole, I guess at current corn prices the whole setup would cost over 1 BTC, possibly up to 1.5 easily. An AC costs me <$10k installed and probably like $200-500 per summer for leccy. For heating in winter we spend like ~1200 for oil + ~500 for wood.
That said, the amortization time frame for such an apparatus is well beyond the reach of my mortal residues. Still like the concept and I guess once installed and paid you enjoy (almost) free heating and cooling.
ah i went horizontal loop as i have the land. so 2000 foot loop of pex buried in a trench six feet down in my back yard. mucho cheaper that drilling as only needed an excavator..
and at the time we needed to replace our ageing boiler heat system a decade or so ago there were some nice tax rebates and zero percent loans to go with geothermal installs.
Friggin shitty heat
psycodads brain shutdown, but
corn unaffected.
AC affordable
with few satoshis, but then
no use in winter.
geothermal rocks
both heat and AC combined
a ground source heatpump
takes heat from the air
preheats your hot water tank
so free hot water