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Originally Posted by Xringer
The sweetest part of this hack, is you are re-cycling some of the heat that was lost via ceiling leakage..
Sorta like a solar space heating + heat recovery system..  |
Well, since the attic is attached to the house, and the heat loss from the living space in the house to the attic is influenced by the delta-T between the living space and the attic space, and you will be extracting attic heat from the attic (which will lower its temperature) as an input to your heat pump...
Might this just be an electrically-powered heat loss machine?
Here is a similar idea, but a greenhouse is used as a heat capture device (seems like a waste of a perfectly good greenhouse to me) and it's heat is stored in an underground aquifer, but the source greenhouse is
completely separate from the sink greenhouse.
-AC_Hacker