Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
10-03-09, 03:49 PM
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No, afraid not. I've been keeping up with the...
No, afraid not. I've been keeping up with the project via the update emails, but school's been keeping me busy.
It did, but through a longer time on the iron, not a higher temperature. We may...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
10-03-09, 09:40 AM
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Looking awesome!
Since you're running...
Looking awesome!
Since you're running your loops in series you wouldn't need more than a send and a return temperature which you could read at the inside unit. If your loops were in parallel...
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Forum: Conservation
07-29-09, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 66
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
07-21-09, 11:27 PM
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Replies: 1,943
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Guess I haven't lived in Texas long enough...
So thats where all that noise was coming from that kept me up last night!
You're quite right, I should have known better! I'm sure you've seen (or heard of) the bumper sticker "I wasn't born in...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
07-18-09, 07:09 PM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
07-15-09, 09:18 PM
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Replies: 1,943
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Sweet, Looking good! When you backfilled were...
Sweet, Looking good! When you backfilled were you able to pack the dirt in any? Hopefully if you water the hole every so often it'll settle around the pipes tightly (besides, thats what you do when...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
07-03-09, 10:52 PM
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Views: 5,234,276
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-10-09, 01:56 AM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-09-09, 12:02 AM
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Forum: The Billiards Room
06-07-09, 12:14 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,233
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-06-09, 12:38 AM
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Replies: 1,943
Views: 5,234,276
Their grout appears to be using cement as the...
Their grout appears to be using cement as the main binder. Ours was just water, sand, and bentonite. (gotta be the sodium bentonite that expands to 10 times or so the volume in water) We used 5 to 1...
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Forum: Lawn and Garden
06-04-09, 08:40 PM
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Replies: 375
Views: 508,698
How is the trailer set up, is there "wasted...
How is the trailer set up, is there "wasted space" that batteries could go? For example there's a small landscaping trailer (prob 3x6) at work that has the bed completely over top of the tires. This...
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Forum: Lawn and Garden
06-03-09, 02:20 AM
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Replies: 375
Views: 508,698
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-03-09, 01:34 AM
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Replies: 1,943
Views: 5,234,276
So we've got 230 boreholes. We divided them up...
So we've got 230 boreholes. We divided them up into 17 different zones, and each zone has 13 or 14 boreholes in it. Those wells are plumbed in parallel reverse return (first in, last out) and each...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-03-09, 12:51 AM
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Replies: 1,943
Views: 5,234,276
Chapter next...
So we've got holes in the ground with pipe sticking out of them at ground level. You can't have the pipes running on top of the soccer field, the poor soccer players have it bad enough running back...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-03-09, 12:37 AM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-03-09, 12:09 AM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-02-09, 07:51 AM
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I just had the opportunity to be in a Ground...
I just had the opportunity to be in a Ground Source Installers class (the engineer who oversaw our project was the teacher), and I was able to borrow the "Installation Guide" since it was the main...
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Forum: Lawn and Garden
05-26-09, 06:36 PM
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Replies: 375
Views: 508,698
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Forum: Other Improvements
05-19-09, 11:02 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 26,208
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Forum: Conservation
05-08-09, 10:56 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 111,894
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Forum: Conservation
04-25-09, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 111,894
Info overkill!
After thinking about it more, heres my thoughts on the matter (AKA take or leave as much as you want.)
First two thousand words on the subject, and then some more words about those two thousand...
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Forum: The Billiards Room
04-23-09, 01:33 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 11,255
For everyday drinking, no. I have a 1 liter...
For everyday drinking, no. I have a 1 liter nalgine type bottle I fill up at the drinking fountain at school, and get it filtered out of the fridge at home. I did buy a couple of cases of bottled...
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Forum: Other Improvements
04-23-09, 12:26 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 11,314
Thats what I was thinking too, putting another...
Thats what I was thinking too, putting another set of studs on the rafters (though that would be a short circuit like Larryrose was saying, so keep them separated if you can) so between the rafters...
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Forum: Conservation
04-23-09, 12:15 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 111,894
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