It's like day and night....
Today, the daytime temperatures around here were insane (if I read correctly, nearby Newark broke a record)....but the temperature after dark was 65.
It seems to me that something could be done
with one or more buffer tanks to "save the heat"
for later on....when cooling it down should be
cheaper....and then "pre-chill" some water
in preparation for the next day.
Ideally, it would be nice to have a simple
design that "just works," but other options
would be 1. a person looking up the forecast
and setting it up or 2. The system looking at
the forecast....
My brain went into overdrive today
in Synagogue, as they have big 220/15amp
units (one per classroom)....and the forced air
system connected to the furnace is idle.
Only 2 AC's were on, and the rest of the
building was a steam bath.
One idea would be to lay ground loops
on the surface or shallow...in a crawl space
under the building. The building rests on
piers, like an elevated pole barn.
If the pipes were actually on the surface,
we would need to do something about
moisture. We would not want any to
penetrate the floor above the crawl space.
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