The Compost-Powered Water Heater: How to heat your greenhouse, pool, or buildings with only compost! - Softcover

Brown, Gaelan

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9781581571943: The Compost-Powered Water Heater: How to heat your greenhouse, pool, or buildings with only compost!
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1581571941 ISBN 13: 9781581571943
Publisher: Countryman Press, 2014

Synopsis

Here is a revolutionary approach for heating rooms and generating hot water. Author Gaelan Brown has worked with engineers and compost scientists to refine methods of composting that can heat greenhouses, barns, buildings, and hot water, all without combustion.

It seems almost too good to be true: make high-value organic compost while generating reliable combustion-free heat. But it works, and this book is your practical introduction. With detailed case studies of large scale engineered systems and plans for constructing small DIY systems, you'll find step-by-step illustrations and photos to guide you through the process. A review of calculations to help you estimate the heating capabilities of various approaches and other planning tools make this book invaluable for compost heat recovery on any scale.

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About the Author

Gaelan Brown is the founder of CompostPower.org, an open source research network that has developed new methods of generating hot water from specially designed compost systems, and he’s taught classes on the topic at Vermont’s Yestermorrow Design Build School for several years.

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Publisher
Countryman Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1581571941
ISBN 13 
9781581571943
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
170
Rating
  • 4.24 out of 5 stars
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