Re:American energy use
by dredmorbius on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:26AM
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That's where some of Chlupp's concepts -- building on top of a very large sand base, for example -- might come in handy. He doesn't make use of geothermal (ground-loop) heat pumps though.
A fair bit of his technology comes from Germany, as does he ;-)
And there are some videos there that run less than an hour. Though I find the two listed to be well worth the time to watch -- information dense. You can skip through bits if necessary.
Video search: https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=thorstein+chlupp
These two in particular detail the design logic:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtHkvpRI6fc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xen_VWyDezY
A fair bit of his technology comes from Germany, as does he ;-)
And there are some videos there that run less than an hour. Though I find the two listed to be well worth the time to watch -- information dense. You can skip through bits if necessary.