*G*! We ain't even into winter yet, LOL!!

Nah, I only wanted to report that the water cost much less than I
thought it did. And that I was a dolt an forgot to reset the thermostat
from a day I was working in the GH. Hence yet another 'do over' moment
in my life.

The lesson to be learned is to check & re-check all your variables, LOL!!

But you and Pat Brennan are undoubtedly correct in that the water will
only amelioate the extremes. Which is a good thing.

I've been googling real estate. The Money magazine report on the 100 top
cities in America (found from their link on cities commuter cities) was
fun to click around on, until you get to the botom of the page and see
the weather high/lo and inches of rainfall. Internationally supposedly
the coast of Croatia ain't bad, but one wonders about living in an
ex-war zone... *G* Then there's the Pacific bays of Honduras. But so
far Costa Rica near the San Antonio Miguel reserve has me hooked. Ah!
To win the lottery!

K

Gene Schurg wrote:
KB,

I don't think you will be able to measure savings over a short period.
Also, I would not expect it to be a huge savings or all of us would be
living between water filled walls.

The real savings will be on the very hot winter days when the water can
absorb the radiant heat. In the evening it will slowly release the heat
back into the greenhouse. If you have a group of days where there is
little/no difference between the day/night temperature I doubt that you
would see any savings.

Basically, I would expect the water heat sink would help with the extreames.

Good growing,
Gene

P.S. I'd still trade winters with you. I hate to see the days get short and
cold.



"K Barrett" wrote in message
...

I placed 3 55-gallon drums filled with water in my GH when the weather
turned cooler. In N calif where I am the winters aren't terribly cold.
I wanted to see if the thermal mass of the water would reduce the
demand on my heater.

Here's my mixed report.

As some of you may recall I believed any gas savings I would have
received was offset by the cost of the water to fill these 3 drums. I
just got my water bill, did the math and the cost for the water was
$1.30. So there went that theory, for the better.

However, on the bad side, the weather here has been very mild. Night's
falling to about 56F. According to my min/max mercury thermometer the
GH stayed about 61-62F at night. We did have one cold night, it got to
42F and (!) the heater came on. When I awoke in the AM the the GH was
68!!! There went that savings, LOL!! I reset the thermostat.

Mulligans

K Barrett