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Using excess heat.

There has been a large flight from traditional grow-lights to Light Emitting Diodes, or LED's, but in cooler climates heat is generally needed, before I rant I'm going to stop myself with a few laws of thermodynamics that makes this question insane to a physicist, anyways since the large heat producers, please correct me here, are the best for fruiting plants. If so what tools can we use to capture the thermal energy and excite some particles where needed?

Help is greatly appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by the mad german on August 12, 2011 at 10:26am

Wow, did I justy say hydroponics? Meant to say hydronics.

the mad german said:

Sorry I should've said under the tank or bed instead of soil. Hydroponics is actually a very efficient way of heating with respect to heat transfer and getting the most bang for your buck or I should say complete utilization of the existing BTUs or extraction of them from the water.

It still comes down to storage and having a system big enough to draw off of it all night long.

TCLynx said:

Just one issues here, copper in contact with any system water is a no-no since recirculating systems will build up toxic levels of copper for the fish.