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Hi Guys,
I have a theory question for you all who are far smarter than me. As a heat pump owner, my installer told me that the solution in my 100 foot wells will never be colder than 50 degrees in the dead of winter. So that being said, couldn't I take my well driller, punch 2 or 3, 140 foot wells, run a pex or pvc loop thru them, and suck 50 degree heat off of either car or cast iron radiators with fans and a circ pump? I dont have a problem heating my shop FROM 50 to 60, but from 0 to 60. . . .! Have asked this from many a men and no one has the answer. Hard for me to believe that I'm the first to come up with it. Thanks in advance, Fido
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Fido,
Not a new idea, but it has a NEW buzz word with the “GEO Thermal Heat pumps”. Same idea that you describe, they use several deep holes and run PVC or PEX loop with a circ pump so the Heat pump for the house has the heating or cooling effect. Basically using the earth vice having the outside unit with fan, for the A/C and Heat. Several pics out there but a basic picture
Cost for the average person is the problem, to drill the holes, or to dig the trenches for a horizontal loop large enough for good heat transfer.
Hope this helps a little.
Aubrey
God is Great, Beer is Good, and People are Crazy! '07 Jinma 254LE
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Yep. My system exactly. 5 wells, 5 ton pump, $14000 ! While the system functions great, the cost of elec is not as good as they advertised and now say initial numbers “might have been inflated a little” ! Isn't that fraud? Not when govt is involved.And, when the govt is done with coal fired elec plants, Look out ! Anyway, done with my rant now, my question is if I drill my own wells since I have a driller now, would a super simple loop, constantly circulating, pull enough heat out of the earth to keep my shop at 45 degrees or would the solution start cooling down? Basically skipping the heat pump and just using the loop thru radiators. Come on all you physicists out there! (Had to look up the spelling on that one) If this works, shops could be heated to a very nice equipment storage temp for the cost of running a very small recirc pump. And then heated to 60 or 65 by an alternative heater when necessary.
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Well permit fees? This may be representative.
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