Yes, and now I have a new video that will surprise you. I just finished this moment to translate it even in Dutch! See ruclips.net/video/L_PB_0rvqw4/видео.html Thanks for the encouragement!
Great video. Few people are thinking about creative uses of heat pumps in the USA. Are heat pumps used in nontraditional ways in Europe? For those of us who are neither scientists nor engineers the difficulty is calculating how much heating and cooling capacity non traditional heat pump use provides. For example, would a large swimming pool be able to absorb all excess heat from a house during the summer? If not, how much heat can I transfer by heating water that is discharged? For example heating water used in toilets, sprinklers, 500 liter storage tank for showers etc. Running a water pipe vertically down 100 meters for a geothermal heat pump is expensive. Would a water pipe laid horizontally in a stream or lake be effective? Is solar heating of water worth the additional install cost verses extracting heat from ground sourced water?
Dear Jim, thank you very much for your comment! I don't see many ways that heat pumps are used in a special way, not even on RUclips, where we can watch the whole world! The idea of using both hot and cold side would be great if used more. Your example of the swimming pool and the cooling of the house on your third line is certainly possible and it is not necessary to worry about absorption of the excess heat. The swimming pool might cool down during the night if temperatures are in certain ranges. That will increase its absorption capacity each day again. If one has no swimming pool, also the discharged water can absorb quite some heat. Each 10 degree Celsius that you rise 100 liter of water will take a bit more than 1 kWh. So that would be 30°C for the heat of a standard air conditioner during one hour, which would give you one hour of its cold. And than this storage tank, where pretty cold water from the great is coming in, you can heat it up a bit and who cares that luke warm water is coming out of the cold water tap. You start by feeding it into dishwasher and washing machines. It will hardly damage your clothes but save much on the heating with pure resistors. Also in toilets it won't harm, on the contrary. In Europe a standard flush is 9 liters. Four times 3 persons is about 100 liter. A water pipe in water and even one meter under the ground (this last one requires many more meters pipe) would be great to extract heat or cold, depending on what you need in the season. I have been looking on Amazon.com for an affordable and comparable heatpump, my one costed 500€ in Europe. In the USA I saw devices that costed much more or had very few reviews. If I recommend an article that I don't have in my home, I want to see and read many nice reviews at least. Don't hesitate to bring some exciting idea here into the comments, which you would like to see realised (as long as it is not the JetPack Aviation, would have to discuss that at home). I can see if it fits into my program. Greetings, Norbert
he he, finally somebody that thinks like I want to use a heatpump.
Yes, and now I have a new video that will surprise you. I just finished this moment to translate it even in Dutch! See ruclips.net/video/L_PB_0rvqw4/видео.html
Thanks for the encouragement!
Great video. Few people are thinking about creative uses of heat pumps in the USA. Are heat pumps used in nontraditional ways in Europe?
For those of us who are neither scientists nor engineers the difficulty is calculating how much heating and cooling capacity non traditional heat pump use provides.
For example, would a large swimming pool be able to absorb all excess heat from a house during the summer?
If not, how much heat can I transfer by heating water that is discharged? For example heating water used in toilets, sprinklers, 500 liter storage tank for showers etc.
Running a water pipe vertically down 100 meters for a geothermal heat pump is expensive. Would a water pipe laid horizontally in a stream or lake be effective?
Is solar heating of water worth the additional install cost verses extracting heat from ground sourced water?
Dear Jim, thank you very much for your comment!
I don't see many ways that heat pumps are used in a special way, not even on RUclips, where we can watch the whole world!
The idea of using both hot and cold side would be great if used more. Your example of the swimming pool and the cooling of the house on your third line is certainly possible and it is not necessary to worry about absorption of the excess heat. The swimming pool might cool down during the night if temperatures are in certain ranges. That will increase its absorption capacity each day again. If one has no swimming pool, also the discharged water can absorb quite some heat. Each 10 degree Celsius that you rise 100 liter of water will take a bit more than 1 kWh. So that would be 30°C for the heat of a standard air conditioner during one hour, which would give you one hour of its cold.
And than this storage tank, where pretty cold water from the great is coming in, you can heat it up a bit and who cares that luke warm water is coming out of the cold water tap. You start by feeding it into dishwasher and washing machines. It will hardly damage your clothes but save much on the heating with pure resistors. Also in toilets it won't harm, on the contrary. In Europe a standard flush is 9 liters. Four times 3 persons is about 100 liter.
A water pipe in water and even one meter under the ground (this last one requires many more meters pipe) would be great to extract heat or cold, depending on what you need in the season.
I have been looking on Amazon.com for an affordable and comparable heatpump, my one costed 500€ in Europe. In the USA I saw devices that costed much more or had very few reviews. If I recommend an article that I don't have in my home, I want to see and read many nice reviews at least.
Don't hesitate to bring some exciting idea here into the comments, which you would like to see realised (as long as it is not the JetPack Aviation, would have to discuss that at home). I can see if it fits into my program.
Greetings,
Norbert