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Making a difference
By: crazyguy Date: April 10, 2014, 6:08 am
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What are the things that use the most power in your house?
What can you do to make the biggest effect on your "purchased
energy"?
I started thinking about it.
Light? nope, I may turn on one lamp at night to read something
for less than an hour.
TV? I may use that at most, 2 hours per day. Best I can do
there is get a new LED back- lit LCD version (they actually use
a lot less power than crt and the older LCD versions.
Heating and cooling - yes, there is one place a difference
could be made.
Running my refrigeration unit to keep food from spoiling.
Now I have one idea that has been ping ponging in my brain for
years on that subject : In this geographic location I actually
run my refrigerator in the winter, does that sound stupid to
you? it does to me. If I could pipe the cold from outdoors into
my refrigerator I could definately save energy. A simple
radiator coil outside plumbed to one inside the box with a very
small pump for the antifreeze could " reduce " the energy used
there.
Heating the house in the winter : Could do something there also.
Solar collectors (hot fluid or hot air type) could suppliment
that and "reduce " the energy used there also.
Cooling and humidity reduction in the summer. That would be a
challenge because along with the summer heat in this geographic
location stiffeling humidity is included.
A swamp cooler would not work. More insulation would help but
the humidity is the big problem.
Cooking food : Rocket stove modified for cooking? You would need
a supply of something to burn. Great if you have your own wood
lot.
Pumping water from the well. Now that uses a lot of
instantaneous power, my emergency generator even struggles with
that load.
Maybe two pumps, one the works continuously to slowly bring the
water up to ground level to a holding tank so I can use a second
pump to deliver it under pressure. That could be affected (but
the cost of the tank would be something) .
Heating water : solar? Rocket stove?
These are some things we can attack to make a difference. Any
ideas out there?
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Re: Making a difference
By: sut Date: April 11, 2014, 7:05 am
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I saw somewhere that a ski lodge was using cold air from the
outside to be used for refrigeration, they just used duct work
and fans to plumb in cold air to the refrigerator.
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Re: Making a difference
By: sut Date: April 12, 2014, 7:27 am
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Ill bet wife won't be happy about you making hole in
refrigerator ! If you do make it go into the freezer section,
the cold food section gets it cold from freezer section (no
evaporator in cold food side ) Also be real careful where you
place hole! condenser can be placed in sides back and sometimes
in top you don't want to hit one of those lines
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Re: Making a difference
By: happygolucky Date: April 12, 2014, 3:11 pm
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all very good ideas gentlemen..
being from the poor dirt farmer side of the country...an my wife
from the mountain country i can relate.. we can our own food at
harvest times an preserve meat the old time way..salting an
smoking.. just about everything we edible is canned put in a jar
up to 500 quarts per year...but are slowing as kids have moved
away an we are both physically not able..... i use my north
side exterior wall thinly insulated ... stone stucco as a
refrigerated cooler... to preserve canned food as old as 7
years....from the garden etc..we have a basement exterior
perimeter space 360 degrees around a finished basement center
room wall insulated ..interior warm... exterior cold ...for
storage..that stays a constant 45-50 degrees or cooler below 4
foot..above you can use as a frezer due to permafrost
conditions..as we have..if i open vents in the winter Year round
coolest room in the house.... i thought about geothermal heat
pump system $$$.... an base board heat from gas hot water
heater.. convection boiler radiant heat principle... my
neighbor dose it to heat one room.. an well i may say.. just a
few other ideas..
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