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ecomodded · 10-09-12, 11:46 AM

This is a great thread, now comes the juicy stuff,the panels being constructed the inside exchange system.
Will it be heating the floors or the house by a radiator, also how will you heat the household hot water ?

I have plans to live off the grid in the not so distant future so this hot water system will be excellent to learn about. I also want to design a kick *** hot air system with a large rock filled heavily insulated cement covered oven to store heat in.
I am planning on using non combustible materials as i am hoping to get the system that hot, possibly, it would be nice.

I still have not determined how hot these systems can get, Large scale closed loop systems use a gas instead of air and get to 1000 to 3000 degrees or some such incredible heat.
What i would do is keep circulating the hot air threw the rock heat storage all summer, collecting and storing the heat for later use.
The bigger the storage the longer the reserve heating.
They have systems now that store the heat for a year,mind you it's at 1000's of degrees.

10-09-12, 11:46 AM	#82
ecomodded Supreme EcoRenovator Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Vancouver Island,Canada. Posts: 1,037 Thanks: 116 Thanked 100 Times in 87 Posts	This is a great thread, now comes the juicy stuff,the panels being constructed the inside exchange system. Will it be heating the floors or the house by a radiator, also how will you heat the household hot water ? I have plans to live off the grid in the not so distant future so this hot water system will be excellent to learn about. I also want to design a kick *** hot air system with a large rock filled heavily insulated cement covered oven to store heat in. I am planning on using non combustible materials as i am hoping to get the system that hot, possibly, it would be nice. I still have not determined how hot these systems can get, Large scale closed loop systems use a gas instead of air and get to 1000 to 3000 degrees or some such incredible heat. What i would do is keep circulating the hot air threw the rock heat storage all summer, collecting and storing the heat for later use. The bigger the storage the longer the reserve heating. They have systems now that store the heat for a year,mind you it's at 1000's of degrees.