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Sewers?The nearest sewer to my house is miles away, in another town.
Jesus wept... it's not an article advocating a "one system for everyone" kind of thing... Obviously it's where sewers are a thing...
As I recall, Europe (Western, at least) has much milder temperatures than, say, the U.S as a whole. And, for example, the Midwest, specifically. Might not even be the lack of sewers that would preclude Charby from using it.
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pull heat from your septic system
Doesn't the septic system need the heat in order to work effectively?
Septic should be below the frost line so the heat of the earth keeps the bacteria happy. Warmer temps move to cooler temps, so shouldn't be a problem keeping the poop eaters happy.
Then why do Dems always look so ill-tempered.
A few years ago I toured a turn of the century house in Ames, IA that an architect was rehabbing to try to make it energy neutral as possible for HVAC. He drew outside air through a tube buried in the ground as his main source of climate control. It was the middle of the winter and the house was quite comfortable. I didn't see any forced air electric/gas furnace or boiler in the basement either. He was self experimenting to see of older homes could be rehabbed this way.
Thank you for clarifying that, Captain Obvious.
Interesting concept, but I can't see how it would work to provide the primary source of heat without either a heat pump or some sort of additional boosting. 8 to 10 feet under ground the temperature is pretty steady 50 deg. F. That's simply not going to cut it for providing primary heat to a home in the middle of an Iowa winter.The fact that ground temperature is stable year round is what makes geothermal heat pumps so damned energy efficient.
Septic systems get heat from both the ground and from the activity of the bacteria. Depending on how much heat you tried to take out of the system I think you could run into problems with slowing the bacterial action down. I know some large commercial septic plants have been designed so that they can harvest both excess heat and methane gas.