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We have a 20,000 gallon steel above ground water tank with winter temperatures reaching -20F degrees. Have been using agricultural water heaters, but this has been expensive and subject to heater failures. Looking for options and names of equipment suppliers.
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Manufacturers of outdoor boilers are one source. They can tell you their reps and suppliers. Find manufacturers through a web search engine:
Burnham
New Yorker
Teledyne Laars
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Take a long hard look at the tank under three foot of snow and wonder “Woudn’t it be nice to live in the subtropics”
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Mssr. Billp..If you are in search of a long term solution to this problem, perhaps the following suggestion will be of some value.
Construct a thermally engineered structure over or enclosing this tank with as high an R rating as practicable.
If in your latitude and climate
passive solar heating has merit, than it too might be considered in the overall plan.
With a little imagination the outer configuration could be tweeked to reflect any aesthetic considerations for that locale.
The co-generation of heat and storable electrical energy could be accomplished with a tiny little diesel generator in the event of prolonged cold weather.
Many blessings on your family and may your oasis never freeze.
Akmed..of de Nile
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