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stovie · 10-06-2016, 02:28 PM

I've been looking into removing the water heater altogether by trying to store the heat from solar in the ground up to around 140 degrees with four 6" pipes that are about 20' long. Looking into it if you can get the ground to temperature it can hold the heat for upto 6-8 months and the 6" pipe would hold about 122 gallons at 140 degrees Fahrenheit.

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