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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
I've heard of buildings, and even communities, which store surplus solar heat in the ground to use during the winter. The up side is that it's cheap: The ground loop for the heat pump is used to "dump" heat when it is in excess. The down side is that alot of that heat is lost, especially with flowing underground water.
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Piwoslaw,
You are correct in this...
However, part of undertaking PAHS is understanding the soil conditions, especially water table and water transmigration through the soil. To not understand the role of water transmigration in PAHS would be exactly equivalent to not understanding the role that infiltration plays in house insulation.
So site selection of for PAHS implementation is step number 1.
If the water table is low in MMT's area, and if his house is sited so that there is not water flow through the PAHS site it when it rains, burying milk tankers would probably be unnecessary.
-AC