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If you can get your pretty fanny up here I'll show ya texas girl!
That was jsut for fun!
The house is Green as it can be.
Cooling is done with science- the same used for the cooling towers at energy plants, is the same summertime principal used here. Our roof opens in many spots to allow hot air to rise and suck in cool air from below. House being round and no interior supporting walls to get inthe way helps the airflow fast and also allows windows to be closed on whatever side the sun is shining down.
When it's too muggy, we turn on the AC.
A/C and Heat are geothermal. There are 5 wells, 550' deep which circulate fluid in a closed system. This fluid pump requires the same amount of energy a 100 watt light bulb does.
The fluid comes out of the ground at a steady 58 degrees. That fluid goes through a coil inside a heat transfer unit and moves the heat to our water we pump through the floors ( and a trunk goes out to the woodshop).We have a unit that I don't understand - it "consolidates the heat to bring it up to 120*". A/c is easy - run the air past the 58* coils and WhaLa! In the summertime hot water is free and it goes through our heater before returning to ground. In the wintertime the sun beats down on the tile floor in the solarium - this is a thickened slab and so a " thermal mass" that holds heat and releases it slowly overnight.
Less than 300.00 average to heat and or cool and run lights etc. in an all electric house and out building whatever the season and we do decorate for Christmas with a 23' tree that fits in the solarium. That's aproximately 6000 square feet total.
If you can get your pretty fanny up here I'll show ya texas girl!
That was jsut for fun!
The house is Green as it can be.
Cooling is done with science- the same used for the cooling towers at energy plants, is the same summertime principal used here. Our roof opens in many spots to allow hot air to rise and suck in cool air from below. House being round and no interior supporting walls to get inthe way helps the airflow fast and also allows windows to be closed on whatever side the sun is shining down.
When it's too muggy, we turn on the AC.
A/C and Heat are geothermal. There are 5 wells, 550' deep which circulate fluid in a closed system. This fluid pump requires the same amount of energy a 100 watt light bulb does.
The fluid comes out of the ground at a steady 58 degrees. That fluid goes through a coil inside a heat transfer unit and moves the heat to our water we pump through the floors ( and a trunk goes out to the woodshop).We have a unit that I don't understand - it "consolidates the heat to bring it up to 120*". A/c is easy - run the air past the 58* coils and WhaLa! In the summertime hot water is free and it goes through our heater before returning to ground. In the wintertime the sun beats down on the tile floor in the solarium - this is a thickened slab and so a " thermal mass" that holds heat and releases it slowly overnight.
Less than 300.00 average to heat and or cool and run lights etc. in an all electric house and out building whatever the season and we do decorate for Christmas with a 23' tree that fits in the solarium. That's aproximately 6000 square feet total.
