What are you paying for electric?

[BlueZero]

Re: What are you paying for electric?

Open loop - water from my well - dumps into my pond.

Cool, that works out good then. I don't see many open loops, but with the pond it works out good.

[dvtldav]

Re: What are you paying for electric?

Cool, that works out good then. I don't see many open loops, but with the pond it works out good.

I guess some people would say that is not water conservation, but the way I see it, the water in the pond can work its way back down to the water table, and it's not like it is treated water being dumped into a sewer somewhere.

[BlueZero]

Re: What are you paying for electric?

I guess some people would say that is not water conservation, but the way I see it, the water in the pond can work its way back down to the water table, and it's not like it is treated water being dumped into a sewer somewhere.

I would think the same thing. One home I know of that had an open loop dumped it into a near by river. That didn't seem the best way to do it to me since it was flowing away. I would think your water is ending up back in the water table.

Props to you for doing geothermal. Wish more people would see the long term payoff in a lot of these green options. Guess that's one thing good about the fuel prices going up, it brings the payback sooner on other options.

[dvtldav]

Re: What are you paying for electric?

I would think your water is ending up back in the water table.

Part of my property & 2 of my neighbors property is wetlands, & both of my neighbors dump their geothermal into the wetlands. I guess they figure the land is already wet so a little more water is not going to hurt anything.