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Re: Norman Saunders on 100% solar heated houses
The notion of timed latency or decay rate is one that I made a bit of an
analysis of myself. Based on the notion of a one or 2 percent
opportunity of falling outside of the target range of internal
temperatures I calculated that the realistic possibility of falling 1
percent below that range was one chance every 12 years. The solution I
used was to keep heat storage in the center of the living spaces ,
specifically water stored inside a masonary mass, that mass being a wood
burning fieldstone fireplace. Essentially hollowed out with facility for
grey water heat exchange, it works perfectly, and if things should
overheat then opening the flue fixes the problem.
However I cna't resist tinkering, and had thought of changing to either a
glyco or silicon system. Comments would be welcome!
Frank