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LakeVermilion

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2. I have a friend that uses this technology in his cabin.

Reply to NNadir (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 5, 2024, 09:34 PM

Aug 2024

He has seventeen bricks in his furnace. The bricks are heated in off-peak hours. A fluid is warmed by passing through the bricks and cycled through tubes in the concrete floor. The heat then rises into the rooms heating objects, not necessarily the air.

Its not a new technology.

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I've heard a lot of excuses for so called "renewable energy's" lack of reliability, and lots of disingenuous schemes... NNadir Aug 2024 #1

I have a friend that uses this technology in his cabin. LakeVermilion Aug 2024 #2

That's the point. It's a furnace not a wind turbine. NNadir Aug 2024 #3