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#51 2025-01-28 04:24:01
- Calliban
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Re: Heat Pump - Heat Pumps
I recall talking about ceiling mounted radiators? Easier to retrofit and don't get covered up by furniture.
Yes, likely easier to install. Another option is to install thin heating tubes in the walls embedded within the plaster.
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#52 2025-01-28 06:13:03
- Terraformer
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Re: Heat Pump - Heat Pumps
Going back to the older way of having walls radiating heat into the house.
You'd want to do this work at the same time as the other walls are being stripped for insulation I expect. I wonder if you could repurpose the underfloor heating kits to do it?
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#53 2025-05-08 07:19:18
- tahanson43206
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Re: Heat Pump - Heat Pumps
The video at the link below is about an innovative drilling technique that might be of interest to someone thinking about ground level heat pumps. The invention is to use an "inchworm" technique to bore through the regolith.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlbfBrVAEH8
Costs ** should ** be less than if traditional long pipe drilling is used.
This method might even work on Mars, with a bit of adaptation.
Pretty clever. Swiss, of course.
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