How about the old winter ice harvest?

Posted by jdemaris on January 13, 2007 at 16:14:39 from (66.218.18.89):

In Reply to: Heres one for you smart guys posted by old on January 13, 2007 at 15:55:26:

Used to be done every winter (well, sort of). The winter ice harvest. They still do it every year at the museum where my wife works. Score the ice on the pond, cut it, store it in the ice house and use that "winter cold" all summer long. Even on a smaller scale, in the winter the old timers in the Adirondacks would hike to their remote deep-woods fishing spots and bury ice underground, insulated with dry leaves, hemlock boughs, etc. Then when summer came, they go back in to make big catches of fish and use the ice that was saved to preserve it.
Now - going the other way? I've got a guy near me that tried. He built a new house according to plans in Popular Science. It uses summer sun to warm water tanks that are stored undergound and insulated. Then, when winter comes, you circulate that water all winter to heat the house.
Didn't work. Either Popular Science lies, or we just don't have enough sun here in the Northeast.

Replies:

• Re: How about the old winter ice harvest? RAB 00:50:03 01/14/07 (0)
• Re: How about the old winter ice harvest? george md 17:55:21 01/13/07 (0)
• Re: How about the old winter ice harvest? Janicholson 16:40:25 01/13/07 (1)
  • Re: How about the old winter ice harvest? jdemaris 17:23:49 01/13/07 (0)

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