Heating and Cooling with Lake Water?

Mee-n-Mac · 07-18-2006, 10:47 PM

Going back to your original question of efficiency and lower cost ... I'm guessing that because Canada was pushing for such things they must be more efficient and cheaper to run. APS does a good job explaining what a simple home built system could be, whether such a thing would be cheaper to run (all legalities aside) vs a commercial heat pump or normal AC is another question. Some light reading FYI ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../heatpump.html

Maybe the thing to do is to move the habitat to the water and not the water to the habitat. It's been done on the Lake before ...

07-18-2006, 10:47 PM	#8
Mee-n-Mac Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,943 Thanks: 23 Thanked 111 Times in 51 Posts	Efficiency of heat pump vs normal AC Going back to your original question of efficiency and lower cost ... I'm guessing that because Canada was pushing for such things they must be more efficient and cheaper to run. APS does a good job explaining what a simple home built system could be, whether such a thing would be cheaper to run (all legalities aside) vs a commercial heat pump or normal AC is another question. Some light reading FYI ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../heatpump.html Maybe the thing to do is to move the habitat to the water and not the water to the habitat. It's been done on the Lake before ... __________________ Mee'n'Mac "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by simple stupidity or ignorance. The latter are a lot more common than the former." - RAH

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