- Joined
- Mar 14, 2002
- Location
- Wisconsin
Currently, I'm in a second floor apartment, so this would obviously not work too well...However, in the past years, I lived in a rural area with personal wells, including hand pumps for the gardens, etc. The water for these garden wells (sand points, only driven down ~20') supply incredibly cold water even during the hottest days of summer. A local mechanic used this water run through a large radiator to cool his garage and used the discharged water to water his grass at the same time. Even if one could make a relatively large res. (even like a 5 or 6 gal bucket) and bury it in the ground a few feet under (3-5', it's still quite cold all year), couldn't you get a decent supply of 50-60°F water? There is an issue of pump head to get the water up, but even if the pump was a bit noisy, it wouldn't matter, as it's buried.. What do you think?