[Greenbuilding] [proprietary product name <snipped>] (was HEAT PUMP WATER HEATER)

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On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:44:19 -0400, Paul Eldridge  
<paul.eldridge at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

[this portion where Paul 'splains eet <snipped>

> ----- Quote(ing Christian Corson)  -----

> Please keep in mind that an ASHPWH WILL raise the heat load and the  
> annual  heating demand of homes in heating climates if placed with in  
> the thermal
> envelope.

I don't know nuttin' about nuttin' about this gizmo but it sounds to me  
like it *might* be useful as an add-on for a cool-store closet or root  
cellar or such-like.

ie If sucking the heat out of the living space is problematic, then maybe  
you park it in a small space that is thermally isolated from the living  
space where the heat-sucking capacity is beneficial ... and that sounds  
pretty much like a fridge.

I'll leave it to a numbernerd (meant in the nicest way of course) to do  
the arithmetic to determine whether the "fridge" is a beer cooler  
capacity-sized space or a root cellar capacity-sized space.

Thinking about it a bit more, assuming that the gizmo makes an annoying  
racket (albeit tiny)  as heat pumps are wont to do, having it acoustically  
isolated in the thermally isolated space wouldn't be a Bad Thing either.

Me ?  Thinking about gizmos and beer got me thinking about how one might  
make a small watercraft that could be towed behind a bike for about 20 kms  
to a launch point on the Ottawa River that is almost directly across from  
the marina at Parc de Plaisance in Aylmer Quebec. Ideally the watercraft  
could be pedal-paddle-powered, be able to accommodate two humans and their  
two bikes, a dog, a bike chariot and two cases of discounted-by-50%  
premium Quebec beer (for my neighbours) across sometimes choppy water.

Pedal-paddle across the river to Quebec, tie-up the watercraft at the  
marina, pedal the bikes to Hull to the bottom of Gatineau Park, ride the  
hills of Gatineau Pk, pedal back to Aylmer, pick up two cases of beer and  
haul it back to the boat with the chariot (the chariot having been used to  
transport a pooped-pup through town from the run through the Gatineau  
hills) , pedal-paddle back to Ontario and home.

Huh. Looks like someone else may have been thinking the same thing:

http://www.hobiecat.com/kayaks/mirage/tandem-island/


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Rob Tom					AOD257
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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