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There must be a simple way to use a heat pump to heat a small pool and simultaneously cool the house. Why waste that house heat to the outside air? Using a standard compression/expansion refrigeration cycle, dump the heat into the pool first. While I doubt that the house heat will supply enough BTU's
to do the job alone, it seems overkill to pay to heat the one and cool the other.
Done
http://www.toad.net/~jsmeenen/pool.html
[half, May 11 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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I knew this was too obvious to not be baked somewhere, just couldn't locate it. |
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[RayfordSteele], this was one that you almost had to know existed in order to be able to find it. Some other interesting stuff is being done with "ground-coupled" heat pump systems that take advantage of constant underground temperatures for efficient heating and cooling by directly burying the condensing coil in the ground. |
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Heat pumps for hot water are being marketed, check the DOE site. Also, heat pumps using the ground for a heat sink are marketed. I would imagine there are problems with heat balance problems with using a pool for a heat sink for a house. One being, during the winter, you'd be pulling heat out of the pool to warm the house. In Southern California, that wouldn't be a problem. In the northren states, you'd end up with a ice problem. |
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This was the sort of scheme I was thinking could be used to cool the London Underground. I will link it. |
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