I just got wind from an outside source that BLP and Carrier Corporation (part of the United Technologies group) are up to something with R&D on a "new technology" for home and commercial heating systems. UTC C. Corp. is currently nearing completion of their major expansion of the engineering building- quadrupling it's size for an unspecified project.
As I work for Carrier in Australia I am currently trying to investigate this further from my end but I have not heard anything from here to date. If any Vorts in the US have any knowledge about this or contacts within UTC I would appreciate the help. As per usual in the corporate world one country branch does not necessarily communicate with their counterparts that well. John Rudiger Perth WA Ph:- 08 9232 7150 Fax:- 08 9232 7155 Opportunity awaits the prepared mind. -----Original Message----- From: Frederick Sparber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 27 August 2005 5:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Alleviating Energy Costs With fossil fuel energy (Heating, Cooling & Motor Fuel) cost heading toward $3.00/therm or $30.00/million BTU, an insulated 5,000 -10,000 gallon (poured concrete) water storage tank buried in the back yard (at a safe distance from the septic tank if you have one) can store about 4 million BTU/day off a heat pump condensing side in the summer and dumped at night with a fan-coil unit or a cooling tower. A roof-mount Solar Heat collector should be able to store a few million BTU/day when the heat pump condensing side is warming the house. Since I'm about ready to go to central air conditioning (I scrapped the evaporative cooler ^ switched to area refrigerated units) and doing some digging in the flower garden of this small (city) back yard.... :-) Glauber's Salt costs about $70.00 per ton (and getting cheaper as more Coal-Burning power plants need to turn SO2 into dirt cheap H2SO4). In 1986 Anhydrous H2SO4 was $5.00/ton at a Southwestern Power Plant. The expense was in the 20 ton tanker truck transportation costs. 1, 2 SO2 + O2 -----> 2 SO3 2, 2 SO3 + 2 H2O ------> 2 H2SO4 (Anhydrous) 2 NaCl + H2SO4 -----> Na2SO4 + 2 HCl Na2SO4 + 10 H2O -----> Na2SO4-10H2O Phase Change: 90 Degrees F 108 BTU/LB http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumerinfo/factsheets/b103.html Glauber's salt (sodium sulfate decahydrate), calcium chloride hexahydrate, and paraffin wax are the most commonly used PCMs in solar heating systems. Although these compounds are fairly inexpensive, the packaging and processing necessary to get consistent and reliable performance from them is complicated and costly. http://chemicals.etacude.com/s/sodium_sulfate2.php Frederick
