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other use for wind energy | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 editorial)
Re: other use for wind energy (3.00 / 0) (#9)
by Akos on Sun Aug 24th, 2008 at 05:06:31 AM MST
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Using sun to heat up water during cold winter is not efficient/possible. It is also not cheap at all. Think of big tanks (should be inside the house), controllers, additional piping and all other stuff. An efficient collector itself is not cheap too.

So I do think it is not a bad idea to use wind to heat water with extremely simple system. I am thinking on the same nowadays.


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Re: other use for wind energy (3.00 / 0) (#10)
by spinningmagnets (velmis1450bc(at)aol(dot)com) on Sun Aug 24th, 2008 at 08:56:58 AM MST
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Gary at builditsolar.com has had some success with solar heating in the winter, though I admit his system IS large. He uses an insulated pit in the ground as his storage.

When there's no sun, its usually windy, and vice-versa, if most of the parts can be scrounged fairly cheap, why not do both for winter water heat?

I believe it may be a worthwhile investement, especially if the hot water is also used to warm the floors. Maybe not appropriate for everyone, but perhaps useful for quite a few?

"I refuse to look through this new telescope, it might confuse my ideas" -Cremonini, Galileo's professor of science from the University of Padua, 1632

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other use for wind energy | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 editorial)

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