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>> Bringing the people behind our food to life.
>> With thermal banking it's not just heat
that we can conserve as a form of energy.
Any farm that needs cooling for refrigeration whether it's eggs
or produce can conserve that cold and bank if for use
in the summer for refrigeration
and that was the logical extension and once I developed
that concept of thermal banking with solar,
starting to think about, well, we're spending a lot
of energy cooling in the summer, to cool our produce
and to keep our produce and eggs cool, why not store winter cold
and we're in process building an ice house
which is not a new concept.
Many of my Amish friends still have ice houses and the town
that I grew up in still had an ice house standing
when I was a child.
There's a lot of stored energy in ice and being able to store
that ice and use it through the summer or even
if you stored cold by freezing a large mass of ground,
by pulling air through that ground in the winter
and freezing up a huge mass that you have isolated
with insulation, thermally isolated from the rest
of the ground which is a constant 55 degrees,
45 to 55 degrees to keep it even colder could be a real source
of not only refrigeration but air conditioning
to keep your work space cooler on these 80, 90 degree days.
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