Build Your Own Solar Water Heater

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There's a bright day ahead in using the sun to heat our homes — even to make electricity. But you can harness that free energy right now to heat your home's water. And a quarter of most home fuel bills comes from heating water.
Here is the book that tells and shows just how to plan, construct and install your own solar water heat system, one that will pay for itself in as little as eight years. After that your hot water is largely free!
In warm climates or for a summer camp, a simple thermosyphon system will provide abundant hot water and for an outlay of $100 to $500. A full and automated system for deep snow country — to supply all hot water in summer and much of it in winter — will cost under $2,000, or perhaps $700 more if you hire all the work done.
Author Campbell and Consultant Taff, aided by special illustrations by Robert Vogel, cover all the areas of solar water , heating, both home-constructed and from manufactured components. The chapters cover:
• The dollars and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

There's a bright day ahead in using the sun to heat our homes — even to make electricity. But you can harness that free energy right now to heat your home's water. And a quarter of most home fuel bills comes from heating water.
Here is the book that tells and shows just how to plan, construct and install your own solar water heat system, one that will pay for itself in as little as eight years. After that your hot water is largely free!
In warm climates or for a summer camp, a simple thermosyphon system will provide abundant hot water and for an outlay of $100 to $500. A full and automated system for deep snow country — to supply all hot water in summer and much of it in winter — will cost under $2,000, or perhaps $700 more if you hire all the work done.
Author Campbell and Consultant Taff, aided by special illustrations by Robert Vogel, cover all the areas of solar water , heating, both home-constructed and from manufactured components. The chapters cover:
• The dollars and cents in solar heat systems and the savings to be gained.
• How the sun "works," and thus how we must adapt to it.
• Chosing the right solar heat system for your house.
• Building your own collectors.
• Building the heat storage system.
• Building the heat transfer system.
• Free-circulation systems and heat exchangers.
• Forced-circulation systems.
• Solar-heated swimming pools.
Here is the book on solar water heating, covering the pros and cons of the several types — all fully tested and with cost evaluations, details for building and assembling. The book carried up-to-date product evaluations and manufacturer listings. Vissza