Re: Storing the summer heat

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:51:46 -0500

habshi wrote:

> What is wrong with the idea of storing summer heat
> underground?

Using what as a storage medium? Water? Soil? Rock? Heat as such cannot
be store. We have to make something hot first so it can re-radiate the
heat we put in.

A heat pump is a refrigerator run backwards. You use a refrigerant and
pump to make the outdoors cooler so you can heat the indoors.

Bob Kolker

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