It occurred to me that if heat energy becomes free enough, you could use it to sterilize a swimming
pool by putting the heater in the circulation pump line and boiling, then condensing the water back to its original temperature briefly as it travels through the plumbing. A circulation pump can be on the order of 100 gallons/minute, so it's still lots of power, but most would be recovered during the condensing phase. Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 6:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:Heating an Olympic pool to boiling There has been some discussion here as to whether you could heat an Olympic pool to boiling with a 900 W heater. The answer is no, you cannot. In fact there is no way you could even detect this much heat with that much water. As I mentioned that is the heat from two people swimming. That ...
