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Storing your solar heat
Posted by Gabriel Wondrausch on 20th February 2009 at 8:42 am
A vital part of a solar thermal system is storage. The sun is not always shining when you need your hot water! On larger systems molten salt is sometimes used as the storage medium for the heat. Generally however, the heat is stored in water, especially if the purpose of the system is to provi…
Posted in: Solar heat & hot water
Evacuated tubes: make sure you don’t get burnt
Posted by Gabriel Wondrausch on 4th February 2009 at 8:34 am
Evacuated tube collectors are the Formula One of the solar thermal world. They are more efficient than other types of collector as they are almost perfectly insulated, and heat cannot pass through a vacuum. As the tubes are cylindrical, they are always perpendicular to the sun reducing the amount of…
Posted in: Solar heat & hot water
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