Cob: RE: cob and geothermal

[Ted Schluenderfritz]

Hello,
Thanks for the reply.
The system I am looking into is using creating a water loop below the frost line
and then extracting the heat via a heat pump. It would be great if I had a hot
spring...but I don't.

http://www.geoexchange.org/public/segment/residential.htm

(some info on geoexchange.)

Ted

John Schinnerer wrote:
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Schluenderfritz [mailto:teds at rtvision.com]
> 
> >I want to put in geothermal, what kind of success has anyone had with this?
> 
> Do you mean geothermal as in you have a source of geothermal heat at your
> site to pipe into the dwelling?  This was done in the floor of the cob
> structure built at Breitenbush hot springs in OR this past summer, and
> seemed to work just great (they use geothermal heat from the hot springs to
> heat all their buildings).
> 
> Great last name!  ;-)
> 
> John Schinnerer