Solar hot water for heating

[Ntrain2k]

I'm not sure if this has been thought of, so I thought I would throw it out here and bounce it off of everyone to see what everyone thinks.

I was thinking about ways to save money by heating and one of my thoughts was setting up a solar water heater outside at ground level, a using it in a thermosyphon setup with one or more of the liquid baseboard heating setups.

These baseboard units comes to mind:

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/productIndex.shtml?search_type=brand&QueryString=HEATRIM+AM



ERICAN&operator=refineSearchResults&originalValue=Baseboard+Heaters&searchIndexId=1&



typeOf=

Closed system with antifreeze, expansion tank, etc.

Thoughts on the idea?

Thanks in advance for the replies.

[scottsAI]

Check out: http://www.builditsolar.com/

Many idea about solar heating.

Latest project $1000 home heating system is a killer!

Have fun,

Scott.

[fcfcfc]

Hi:

Using solar with hot water baseboard is not the most efficient way to deliver solar energy, especially if it is on the same loop as the conventional backup heat source... You would do better with a small liquid to air exchanger and a small axial fan... more efficient...., costs less too... Depending on how you heat your DHW and the amount of solar heat you plan on capturing, you might be better off looking in the SDHW direction also.

.....Bill