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damyank913 Donating Member (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 10:12 AM
Response to Reply #166
200. No this is wrong.
This system works by capturing or rejecting heat in the ground using water as the transfer medium. It still requires an energy input to operate the machinery to make this possible. This system doesn't just require pumps. It also requires a compressor and with current solar technology you aren't running a compressor off a solar panel unless it's huge. Furthermore, the only way a 110v compressor will operate with any level of comfort to you is that you are cooling (or heating) one room or a small home. What's not really known is whether enough of these machines installed in proximity will affect the ecology of your area (ie: the effect of dropping or raising the temperature of ground water before it enters a lake or stream). And then there's the the addition of chemicals to the water for closed loop systems. Energy is energy-you're not gonna move it or use it without some sort of input.
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