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Regarding Taxes And Incentives

NSTG8R

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WOW! Just read the whole thread! I thought, by the last several responses, that we were talking about taxes and incentives on making your house more energy efficient. Okay...back on topic.

Note: I just noticed that from the satellite view of the property I'm trying to get there appears to be a giant middle finger in the lower portion of the pic. My feelings exactly for increasing taxes.
 

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I've been looking at an old limestone quarry to build a house on. 15 acres with a 3 acre lake. They hit a spring digging for limestone and silica and had to abandon the quarry years ago, and the lake was born. It ended up being a pretty sweet property surrounded by 150' bluffs on three sides, crystal clear 40' deep lake, and the catfish living in it are as big as your leg. I'd go with solar panels and a geothermal heatpump system backed up with an efficient ducted woodstove for the really cold days. All you're running is the blower and a circulation pump for both heating and cooling with the geothermal set up, and the new ones even keep your hotwater tank hot. LEDs for all the lighting. Should be a pretty energy efficient house. Now, if I can convince my buddy's dad to sell me the property... :hail:

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Good luck. Sounds good!
 

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I've been looking at an old limestone quarry to build a house on. 15 acres with a 3 acre lake. They hit a spring digging for limestone and silica and had to abandon the quarry years ago, and the lake was born. It ended up being a pretty sweet property surrounded by 150' bluffs on three sides, crystal clear 40' deep lake, and the catfish living in it are as big as your leg. I'd go with solar panels and a geothermal heatpump system backed up with an efficient ducted woodstove for the really cold days. All you're running is the blower and a circulation pump for both heating and cooling with the geothermal set up, and the new ones even keep your hotwater tank hot. LEDs for all the lighting. Should be a pretty energy efficient house. Now, if I can convince my buddy's dad to sell me the property... :hail:

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Swinging way off topic here.......For what its worth, I have already done much of what you described. I have the geo system. I went horizontal rather than vertical. The system is ridiculously efficient in the summer. If you live in cold winter zones, the geo system will fall down when it gets below 45. My geo system has supplementary/ emergency electric heat. I highly recommend that option. In the past 6 years I have only used the emergency heat once but it was a real house saver. I have the wood stove as well and it was fine until I got into deep winter. I have a little more than 2K sqf. When its -20 out and permafrost has negated they geo system the wood stove alone will keep me at 53. As long as you have LPG for cooking, supplement your geo system with forced air heat. I have solar water heaters. That works great all year round. Im looking at solar power when I finally get around to building my extended garage. Lastly, most importantly, get a whole house generator!!! Make it LPG or diesel. When you live live in the sticks, you lose power often. I prefer diesel because I can fill up the tank myself in an emergency. The LPG guys wont always come in bad weather. Of course, if you top off every fall that wont be a problem.. Good luck. Hope you get your property.
 

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100% agree on the whole house generator, and diesel was what I had in mind. My current woodstove is ducted into my return ductwork, a good 35' from the furnace to protect the blower from over heating. If you get it rolling, it'll absolutely run you out of the house. Got it figured out pretty good now, so maintaining 70F is no problem, and we've got tons of oak in Missouri. On this particular piece of property I'd either have to go with a vertical shaft type pipe run, or possibly run it in the bottom of the lake. Not sure of the water temp at that depth though, and the possibility of a leak kind of scares me. Sounds like you've got a pretty sweet set up at your house though!
 
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