[Strawbale] Free energy

[Speireag Alden]

On 2007, Nov 30, at 07:43, Michele O'Malley wrote:

> I'm anxious to hear how your system works for you.  The summers are  
> short in lower Idaho but the temps can be in the 90s or above where  
> I am so I feel that it might be worth trying to collect some of  
> that energy if the expense isn't too great to set up a system.

     Me too.  I'll get the plumbing hooked up over the winter, and  
charging started, but we won't have any results we can measure until  
next winter, when we see how the heating bill does.  The numbers will  
probably not show anything for several years, simply because it's not  
an isolated experiment:  I'm also putting on an addition and sealing  
that up, and that's an ongoing process.  I'm hoping to be sealed in  
by this time next year.  After that, we can attribute year-to-year  
changes at least in some part to the results from the AGS system.

     So, in a nutshell, results will probably come too late to help  
you, and metering will be scanty unless I get inspired and get some  
help from people who know more about it than I do.  I may never have  
figures which satisfy a skeptical pro.

     On the other hand, if I can get to the point where I'm spending  
nothing on heat, I'll be happy, regardless.

-Speireag.