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2nd February 2007, 12:29 PM #1
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thermal mass heating and cooling
Way back in the olden days there was a movement to passively heat/cool a house using underground thermal mass of the soil itself. The process was sometimes called "cool tubes".
By constantly changing the air in a house over a 2 hour cycle the house was supposed to be kept in a median temerature range.
But 20 years down the track cool tubes seem to have died out, is there any modern info available?
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2nd February 2007, 02:23 PM #2
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Perhaps not quite the same that you are talking about, but geothermal heating/cooling is slowly taking off, particularly in the US.
There are a couple of projects here in Australia:
http://stott.customer.netspace.net.au/geotherm.htm
I did a lot of reading on this subject before I built our house in an effort to avoid the wood heating scenario, in the end it got all too hard, I now burn wood!
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