Interesting topic Kent! Last summer we upgraded our furnace from 80% to +96%, 18 seer AC and 85% efficent tankless water heater hoping to offset some of the energy price increases.Did the installation myself so the cost wasn't too bad. This summer we will start working on our country place heating, cooling and hot water will be done by geothermal heat pump. During site prep 6000' of 1" high density polyethylene tubing will be buried about 8' deep.Insulation, thermal mass and passive solar design will keep energy needs very low.A correctly designed geothermal heat pump system can provide 300% of the electrical energy used to operate it.
This is a link to Sandia national labs Solar Thermal power generator information.Sandia labs estimates that a field 100 miles by 100 miles of Stirling solar dishes could meet the electrical needs of America.The governator of California already funded a small scale version.
Here is a short quote
"Bob Liden, SES executive vice president and general manager, says solar electric generation dish arrays are an option for power in parts of the country that are sunny like New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Nevada. They could be linked together to provide utility-scale power. A solar dish farm covering 11 square miles hypothetically could produce as much electricity per year as Hoover Dam, and a farm 100 miles by 100 miles in the southwestern U.S. could provide as much electricity as is needed to power the entire country."
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