Thread: heating the pond in winter
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Old 17-10-2008, 01:18 AM posted to rec.ponds.moderated
Derek Broughton Derek Broughton is offline
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Default heating the pond in winter
wrote:

it would need to be metal and the only thing I would trust in the pond
would be really expensive.

Why would it need to be metal? Radiators for cars or homes are metal
because they need to move a lot of heat, quickly, into air - which doesn't
conduct heat well. Water conducts heat _very_ well, and if you were
running the output from a solar heater through about 40' of 3/4 or 1" PEX
at the bottom of the pond, I think you'd get excellent heat transfer. I'd
check that with a heating engineer, if possible, but I'd bet on it.
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derek

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