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Why not use ground source heating, where you bury a pipe in the garden ie
Heat from the ground is absorbed at low temperatures into a fluid inside a loop of pipe (a ground loop) buried underground. The fluid then passes through a compressor that raises it to a higher temperature, which can then heat water for the heating and hot water circuits of the house. The cooled ground-loop fluid passes back into the ground where it absorbs further energy from the ground in a continuous process as long as heating is required.Normally the loop is laid flat or coiled in trenches about two metres deep, but if there is not enough space in your garden you can install a vertical loop down into the ground to a depth of up to 100 metres for a typical domestic home.Heat pumps have some impact on the environment as they need electricity to run, but the heat they extract from the ground, the air, or water is constantly being renewed naturally.
But for keeping it at 27 degs you may not need the compressor part during summer mths just let the fluid pick the heat from the earth run a copper pipe through the gravel at the bottom of the tank (as in underfloor heating) you might need one electric heater in line on a stat to assist but that would reduce the heating required by a fifth.
Heat from the ground is absorbed at low temperatures into a fluid inside a loop of pipe (a ground loop) buried underground. The fluid then passes through a compressor that raises it to a higher temperature, which can then heat water for the heating and hot water circuits of the house. The cooled ground-loop fluid passes back into the ground where it absorbs further energy from the ground in a continuous process as long as heating is required.Normally the loop is laid flat or coiled in trenches about two metres deep, but if there is not enough space in your garden you can install a vertical loop down into the ground to a depth of up to 100 metres for a typical domestic home.Heat pumps have some impact on the environment as they need electricity to run, but the heat they extract from the ground, the air, or water is constantly being renewed naturally.
But for keeping it at 27 degs you may not need the compressor part during summer mths just let the fluid pick the heat from the earth run a copper pipe through the gravel at the bottom of the tank (as in underfloor heating) you might need one electric heater in line on a stat to assist but that would reduce the heating required by a fifth.
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get hold of an old oil fired CH boiler and convert it to run on filtered old engine oil
you could use it to heat your workshop as well as the pond/tank or even the house
just re read your posts
you could try using your existing heating system add an extra zone, a heat exchanger to heat the tank and instead of a room stat you would have a tank stat in the fish tank that would switch your boiler on as and when needed
to get the fish water through the heat exchanger you could make it part of the filter system?
it would work out cheaper to run per week
(i dont just mean ad a heat exchanger like adding an extra radiator i mean add an xtra zone using 3 way valves and other gubins)
you could use it to heat your workshop as well as the pond/tank or even the house
just re read your posts
you could try using your existing heating system add an extra zone, a heat exchanger to heat the tank and instead of a room stat you would have a tank stat in the fish tank that would switch your boiler on as and when needed
to get the fish water through the heat exchanger you could make it part of the filter system?
it would work out cheaper to run per week
(i dont just mean ad a heat exchanger like adding an extra radiator i mean add an xtra zone using 3 way valves and other gubins)
