I forgot to mention that the tubing is filled with a circulating liquid.

[ 25 July 2005: Message edited by: paxamillion ]

geothermal is a good idea....this idea is a bit different though....a geothermal house combined with ice insulation might be a very cheap way for Canadians to live

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Originally posted by CourtneyGQuinn:
who wants to create a company called "Ice Insulation"?

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is it possible to use ice to trap heat?....

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No.

For one, ice has this nasty habit of melting when the heat goes above the freezing point. And when it dips below the freezing point, the ice is happy to dip along with it. The ice doesn't get any more solid, of course, but it gets colder.

Ice is not a good insulator.

Snow is much better, mainly because snow is mostly trapped air, and still air makes a good insulator (all good insulators, like down or fur, work because of trapped air). Problem is, you can't manufacture snow with the same trapped air that nature can.

Courtney, this is just another example of you putting your typing fingers in gear without bothering to do any investigation into what you're about to waste our time with.

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Originally posted by paxamillion:
Some variation of this has already been done. A contractor digs a trench around a house. In the trench goes platic tubing. The tubing is buried, with a connector to to a heat exchanger in the basement. The heat exchanger makes use of the the difference in temperature between air and earth to heat a home in winter and cool it in summer.

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Originally posted by Mr. Magoo:
Courtney, this is just another example of you putting your typing fingers in gear without bothering to do any investigation into what you're about to waste our time with.

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But what is Babble if not time well wasted?

and i know a little/bit about trapping heat...i know using soap bubbles is a cheap and excellent way.....i know using simple ballons in your attic is cheap and good as well.....heck you can even make a rather insulating window blind/shutter with a .49 cents roll of tin foil....

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yes, yes Mr.Magoo...i'm sorry for wasting .000000322 of you GB bandwidth and harddrive.....excuse me for making you have to download such drivel and wasting .0000000022 kW on you hydro bill....

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I'm just trying to point out that babble, and babblers, aren't here to save you the trouble of actually having to research your ideas yourself.

Could you be a little less lazy, and maybe do some initial research to find out if your ideas are even remotely workable before bouncing them off us? Is that really too much to ask?

With whatever respect you're due, you've yet to present us with even a single idea that wasn't stupid. Why is that? Do you perchance have some obscure mental illness that makes you think everything you thing of is an awesome idea that you need to share with strangers? I've heard of people who have an inflated sense of self-worth... do you have the same thing, except that it's an inflated sense of the worth of your ideas?

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Originally posted by Mr. Magoo:

why not just do everything with bees? Bees, bees bees!

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I suppose the logical response would be " Nun'a yer beezwax"

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Originally posted by Willowdale Wizard:
i might be a bit slow, but if ice is not a good insulator, what's the deal with igloos?

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I might be a bit slow, but what's the connection between ice and igloos ?