[TobyB]

This is just something that rattles around in my head when it's raining-

so, we get a lot of rain here. Air and water temps in the 40's, lots of wet.

I'm trying to figure out how to use the heat out of the water by
freezing it- then dumping the ice, to freeze more water.
At a relatively large scale, like, enough to provide domestic
heat and hot water.

Freezing's not a huge problem. Run a heat pump for a while.
But-
then how to get rid of the ice? Make sheets, then let them slide
off into a pile? Hundreds of re- purposed refrigerator ice makers?

By the time I get the next batch of water ready to freeze,
a regular old air source heat pump looks pretty elegant,
especially from a reliability standpoint.

Any thoughts on how to get phase change heat out of water and
make it a continuous process?

Goodness knows, the rain is continuous...

just thinkin',

t