Recycling

It's funny, I go out and wish I could find old things to reuse, like airconditioners (heat pump), fridges (air compressor) and just other stuff like misc. electronics... Then I end up at places like the local junkyard, or the scrap dealer. This world must be here to torture me.

Heat pump water heater ponderings

As of late I've also been wondering if it's worthwhile to turn an old scrap airconditioner into a heat pump to heat our hot water, based on Tesla500's. As a result of our house utilising a solar hot water system, the only time we need to use a booster is on overcast days.

Cairns.com.au reports that we receive approximately 1992mm of rain over 152 days, hence this leads me to believe it may be worthwhile, although I'm still uncertain. Anyone else got an opinion on this?

Holiday projects

With the holidays drawing to a close, I thought it'd be a good idea to summarise what I've done and what I have planned left to do.