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Originally Posted by Phantom
I do not know if any one has looked in to stirling engines but I know that if you turn one instead of adding heat to one side it will heat one side and cool the other. If one was built and the shaft was connected to the wind mill it could directly generate heat.
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Yes, then your heat pump is up on top of a tower, good for the side of it that you want to dump the cold/heat from but bad for transferring the heat to another location and with wind you always get more power with more tower and 50 feet of tower is the minim you should have unless you like expensive gadgets close to where you can see them and in turn complain about how they don't work and now your heat transfer fluid has to have a swivel for both the return and supply lines... show me a design for that, that is insulated from each other.
An electric heat pump is going to be the way to go.