Not Chillin' (sitting back with a brewskie and watching the temperature rise in your boiler), but chilling.
I was uncertain whether this was a Boiler Room or Green Room topic.
I have a room in the barn that I'd like to turn into a giant fridge for storing mushrooms. The ongoing cost of chilling such a room with electricity or fossil fuels is daunting. (Electricity rates here have popped up 25% this year and there is no end in sight for the scaled increases. Our government is obsessed with giving away money to promote alternative electrical generation.)
I was wondering if the principles that apply to refrigeration and air conditioning could use very hot water (from storage) to do what electricity usually does in a fridge or AC to create the cooling effect. Clearly this is just for the warm months. Minimally heating the room in winter to prevent freezing is the cold month solution.
Has anyone tried to do this? Is it possible?
I intend to heat next season mostly with spent mushroom substrate, so the cost of fuel may be minimal, (it may be free; but I may also need some coal or wood to excite gasification...not certain yet as the substrate is still too high in moisture content to get a true picture of its gasification properties.)
I was uncertain whether this was a Boiler Room or Green Room topic.
I have a room in the barn that I'd like to turn into a giant fridge for storing mushrooms. The ongoing cost of chilling such a room with electricity or fossil fuels is daunting. (Electricity rates here have popped up 25% this year and there is no end in sight for the scaled increases. Our government is obsessed with giving away money to promote alternative electrical generation.)
I was wondering if the principles that apply to refrigeration and air conditioning could use very hot water (from storage) to do what electricity usually does in a fridge or AC to create the cooling effect. Clearly this is just for the warm months. Minimally heating the room in winter to prevent freezing is the cold month solution.
Has anyone tried to do this? Is it possible?
I intend to heat next season mostly with spent mushroom substrate, so the cost of fuel may be minimal, (it may be free; but I may also need some coal or wood to excite gasification...not certain yet as the substrate is still too high in moisture content to get a true picture of its gasification properties.)