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Originally Posted by Ross
Now you have my attention! This is rather excellent news. Do you live in a city with zoning rules?
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Hi Ross,
I live in a township with a lot of growth going on around me, but I still have a 5 acre lot. My saying for my place is "being in the middle of nowhere and in the middle of everything". The house is back 700' off the street but it's only a mile to the nearest pharmacy, 3/4 of a mile to the feed store, 2 miles to the closest grocery store. That's why I say I'm in the middle of everything.
The biggest zoning restriction is height because I am in the flyway for the local airport. amazingly it doesn't bother me becuase only a few planes a night fly overhead. However, they are low when the do go over. That's why I can't use traditional wind power.
The thing that is the best, that most people don't think about is the geothermal heat/ac. It truly is amazing. It's so simple to set up and use: drill 2 wells down to a good aquafer, take water out, put it through a heat pump system and send it back into the ground either warm or cold. I will use the geothermal to heat the greenhouse by running another line out there and another themostat.
Right now in this blazing summer heat my ac can cool the house down to 60 if I wanted it to w/o any problem. I keep it much warmer than that though. I keep temps at 75 most of the time, except during sleep time when I turn it to 72.
Randy
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