So this weekend as I'm pulling wires for a split AC system to put in my workshop rec room, I began thinking about cooling using the floor. After all it was about 15* cooler inside the shed than outside, thanks to the thermal mass of the concrete floor.
It seems you could get the BTU's needed pretty readily from well water at roughly 55* ( 2gpm X 500 X (70*-55*) = 15,000 BTU ). The cost to pump the water from the well is 1/12 the cost to run a traditional air conditioner using those numbers.
Has anyone done this? I suspect there are some problems that make it impractical like
a. cold air won't move away from the floor
b. anytime the dew point approaches the floor temp you will get sweating like crazy
c. no humidity is removed from the air
Just curious if anyone has tried it.
It seems you could get the BTU's needed pretty readily from well water at roughly 55* ( 2gpm X 500 X (70*-55*) = 15,000 BTU ). The cost to pump the water from the well is 1/12 the cost to run a traditional air conditioner using those numbers.
Has anyone done this? I suspect there are some problems that make it impractical like
a. cold air won't move away from the floor
b. anytime the dew point approaches the floor temp you will get sweating like crazy
c. no humidity is removed from the air
Just curious if anyone has tried it.