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Can I cool my house into the well during the summer? With surface heat abundant during the summer, I'd expect storing heat downstairs should make sense even if
by hengheng 4y ago
Can I cool my house into the well during the summer? With surface heat abundant during the summer, I'd expect storing heat downstairs should make sense even if the efficiency of the underground reservoir is not exactly stellar.
- btbuildem 4y agoFrom what I understand, geothermal works both ways, yes
- jjk166 4y agoThis works very well. The low heat conduction of rock also means that without going too deep you get to a temperature that is almost constant year round, so you can cool your house in summer and heat in winter so long as you're not dumping absurd amounts of heat.
- shagie 4y agoLook up Drake Landing Solar Community - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community // https://www.dlsc.ca/reports/swc2017-0033-Mesquita.pdf https://www.dlsc.ca/reports/swc2017-0033-Mesquita.pdf It is mainly addressing winter heating rather than summer cooling (the cooling degree days are rather minimal - https://okotoks.weatherstats.ca/charts/cdd-weekly.html https://okotoks.weatherstats.ca/charts/cdd-weekly.html // https://weatherspark.com/y/2404/Average-Weather-in-Okotoks-Canada-Year-Round https://weatherspark.com/y/2404/Average-Weather-in-Okotoks-C... "Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 13°F to 76°F and is rarely below -12°F or above 86°F.") That said, there's nothing saying that one can't use a heat pump to as a source of heat in the summer (which would also cool the house) in additional to other sources of thermal energy.