Some States are absolutely nuts on ground source heat pump regulations. In
Idaho there's no special regulations (AFAIK) on open loop ones. Take water in
(from a well or city supply) and dump it in the open, down a storm drain or
into a body of water, or put it down another well. Seems rife with
possibilities for contamination. But if you want to install a closed loop
system that *seals away* the working fluid from the environment and ground
water, that's when you get into some complications. I think they have their
regulation priorities backasswards.
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Alternative/renewable energy setups tend to go about things in a 'one thing
does all' system where all the energy is collected from one source (like a huge
PV array) then stored in one place (a single, large, battery bank). then they
have a complicated system to convert voltages and AC and DC etc to all the end
uses.
To me that's just crazy. If you're using sun tracking (for PV or solar thermal)
don't tap the energy for the tracking system from the collector. Install a
small PV panel on each collector (or for small groups of them) so that the
tracking power and control is completely independent from the main collection.
Same for any liquid or gas pumping needs. Put in little PV panels to run each
pump.
Split up the battery bank so there are sections optimized for each type of
load, at least one optimized for lighting (which for off grid should all be low
voltage LED) and one for the high power stuff like heating and cooking
appliances. Then you won't end up running out of heating power by running the
lights, or you'll still be able to nuke a burrito (and keep it frozen before
nuking) even if you're out of light power. The different battery banks could be
configured for easiest conversion to the needs of the loads drawing on them.
The energy collection could likewise be segmented to match each battery bank.
Then you'll have a system that won't ALL go down if one critical component
fails. If a sun tracker on one collector conks out, then that's *one* collector
out while the rest still work. If the power converter for the light battery
dies, then you're only out your lights instead of *everything*. Put all the
components on a wall like this guy has his network equipment, label everything.
Tour of my home network.
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On Sunday, April 15, 2018, 10:05:56 PM MDT, jeremy youngs
<jcyoung...@gmail.com> wrote:
The biggest thing to do is to reduce the power needed , as to heating and
cooling gshp is the way to fly , and I'm in progress on that and it will
likely be linuxcnc controlled. As to 12 volt only temporary and mobile
systems should be 12 volt, that's why I'm at 48 and would go higher ify in
Stock equipment would allow, it's also why I will be running a 22 horse
Lister diesel.
I agree going off grid is hard , I have been at it 5 years. And can't
overstate reduction of necessary power is absolutely key.
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