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How to store heat in a thermal store
Posted by Gordon Traill on 30th January 2009 at 11:48 am
Only a serious biomass nerd can get excited about thermal stores. Sadly, I count myself as one of those people. First of all what is a thermal store and what does it do? Essentially it’s a large water tank (usually round) which is well insulated with a series of bosses to connect pipes to.…
Posted in: Biomass, Solar heat & hot water
Ground source heat pumps don't need immersion heaters
Posted by John Barker-Brown on 6th December 2010 at 11:52 am
Would you install an 11kW boiler into a building with a 20kW load? No. The same should be true of ground source heat pumps. Due to the constraints of the UK National Grid there are a number of large properties with single phase electricity, where the upgrade cost to three phase sup…
Posted in: Heat pumps
Auto control enables use of solar PV for immersion heater
Posted by Chris Rudge on 16th September 2011 at 10:38 am
Chris's previous article on how to use excess solar generated electricity in the home generated so much interest that he has written a follow up that goes into more detail about about the control he has built to use solar-generated electricity to heat water. One of the side issues of the Feed…
Posted in: Solar electricity, Solar heat & hot water
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