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Greetings from Germany . The "exercises" with cold water calls "Kneipp Kur". But you are right – don't do it for hours. 😁
Very very nice '!!! Are you still using composting heat for your green house attached to your home as well?
Fantastic you need to upscale I’m thinking Hot tub!
Watch out getting sick from stagnant hot water. I wonder how a heat exchanger made out of a few coils of pipes in your compost would work…
Thank you for your easy to use videos.
Great idea and could be used in a smaller garden
Thanks for the inspiring video – keep us updated on continued performance and any adjustments needed!
Back in the 1950s and 60s in France a chap called Jean Pain would make very large compost piles with copper piping coiled through it. This would provide lots of hot water. At the centre of the pile he had a digester that provided gas for his vehicle and cooking. When the compost pile lost heat, he built a new one and used the compost on his veg garden. Well ahead of his time!
This is such a fantastic idea!!! Thank you so much for sharing. It has given me a few ideas.
You absolutely just enjoy life.. the dogs have been gifted the most fun place Eva.. keep up the inspirational work. Following the same path, keeping it simple, with amazing results.. 👍
Hmmm… now I feel like I should build something similar so I can have a warm-ish reservoir of clean water for our rabbits and chickens, right out by the barn.
Great idea well put together
Wow! What species is that fabulous shed you work under? I see two amazing pillars there. ( Trees) is the one a locust?
Side note: petroleum products are not fossil fuels. They're produced geologically as earth's all-purpose lubricant. The first confirmation was in the early 80's or so. Russian scientists cracked that one. The erroneous FF narrative is a psyop to manipulate/shame the masses for transitioning to electrical energy. FF's are renewable, but dirty, and not as fast as our consumption.
This technique can be used for livestock watering too ! 🙂 with just a wee bit of modification
black hose sitting in the sun will give you warm water going into the tank
I have 200 feet of black garden hose with 100 feet of it on a south facing wall on a hose hanger. It's warmer than my shower most days. I have really bad arthritis in my hands and can't do cold water anymore. I can water when it's 20 degrees outside which became needed when I built my greenhouse porch thing like you guys have. Carrying buckets of water through the house was not working.
You two are wonderful and very inspiring!
I'm wondering if this could be adapted around rain barrels for the winter. I always have to drain mine bcz the water freezes and would crack them. So winter is a bunch of hand watering for all the animals, several times a day without being able to use the rain barrels which are so much closer than the house.
This is not a new concept. Actually, there was an article in Mother Earth News 30 or 40 years ago where a family heated their entire house in the winter using a huge compost pile like you're doing on a small scale.
100° isn't hot enough to prevent bacteria growth is it? Are you concerned about that?
Awesome shot of the ice there at the end. 🤗
👍👍😄😄
composting combined heat and power for a fossil fuel free future (humanity will arrive there whether we like it or not), love it. Also dude, thanks so much for this idea…I was thinking about centering up a new build for a greenhouse and putting a compost area right behind it….this just gave me a potential new passive heat source for the greenhouse in addition to my plan to passive solar heat water inside. Wow.
Brilliant!!!
this is giving me some ideas to keep warm water in the chicken water station!
Around how long would this system stay heated?
Really nice final shots
So wicked! Makes me wonder about upcaling to bath size!?! Temperate climate here… would make a lovely compost heated evening hot tub for one!
I just thought of a cool way to make a simple long term set up for this. A bit more effort, but I think worth the long term.
If you manage to find a metal barrel or half barrel, you can coil around the outside with a hose (metal for more conductivity).
You can pile lots more compost/leaves around it for less management.
With the hot water coiling down into the bottom of the barrel and outputting from the top, you can just tap warm water for yourself.
You would need to make connections into the barrel.
And uphill just using an ibc tank to give enough pressure from rainwater.
Awesome !! 😎