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note 2; Ryan Hodum, «Kunming Heats Up as China's «Solar City»,» China Watch (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute and Global Environmental Institute, 5 June 2007); tripling of solar water heaters from Emma Graham - Harrison, «China Solar Power Firm Sees 25 Percent Growth,» Reuters, 4 October 2007.

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I had a great pool with solar power water heater, and 10 miles from the beach.

At the end of 2008, 40 million homes were getting their hot water from rooftop solar water heaters.

The homes — and the adjacent businesses they supported — would get 50 percent of their power from renewable resources, including solar electricity and solar water heaters.

Ecofriendly aspects and cutting edge technology are a trademark of this property, from the recycled roofing materials, led lighting throughout the house and garden, rain water collected in underground tanks and used for irrigation, insulated sliding doors and solar water heaters, the owners have been mindful of the environment.

It is without doubt the most energy greedy part of the Island; air conditioning, electrically generated endless hot water (solar hot water heaters are amazingly absent from this sunny place), huge swimming pools and more cars per person than the rest of Bali, or the rest of Indonesia for that matter.

Although solar - generated electricity certainly has its place, and meets a specific need, it's just one way in which we can use the free energy that streams down on us from the sun, and unfortunately, it also seems way more desirable to our modern gadget - centric society than the simple method of using solar energy directly, through devices such as solar cookers, solar ovens, and solar water heaters.

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note 2; hydropower, including tidal and wave, from IEA, Renewables in Global Energy Supply: An IEA Fact Sheet, pp. 13, 25, at www.iea.org/textbase; rooftop solar water and space heaters from IEA, Solar Heating and Cooling Program, Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2005 (Paris: April 2007); REN21solar water and space heaters from IEA, Solar Heating and Cooling Program, Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2005 (Paris: April 2007); REN21Solar Heating and Cooling Program, Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2005 (Paris: April 2007); REN21Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2005 (Paris: April 2007); REN21, op.

Roughly two thirds of this growth will come from rooftop solar water and space heaters.

Conventional water heaters can also be replaced by solar thermal water heater systems that use energy from the sun to heat water, which is then stored until needed.

A unique new design proposal from Nick Pine for an inexpensive solar water heater that may be capable of very high solar fractions and short payback.

To involve their community, they installed a network of solar water heaters in local homes — the energy savings brought from this wide network of solar water heaters were then used to fund the church's more large - scale energetic retrofit.

Having built a greenhouse housing two aquaponic systems, Dependent on thermal mass to warm them through the nights When temps dipped into single digits, Realizing some supplemental heat was required to sustain them, I built a solar water heater to collect warmth from the sun.

More than 30 million Chinese get their hot water from solar heaters.

Annual installations of small - scale solar PV and water heaters are down by more than 60 % from their peak.

In China, some 160 million people now get their hot water from rooftop solar water heaters.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

As the cost of pollution goes up, the environmental benefits reaped from your solar water heater will become more and more valuable!

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note 108, p. 23; rooftop solar water and space heaters from Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op.

Other options are becoming viable, too: geothermal energy and energy from waste have expanded recently, while China is the global leader in solar thermal heat systems and Brazil and Morocco are installing solar water heaters in low - income housing.

Rooftop solar water heaters have a capacity of 0.7 kilowatts per square meter and a capacity factor similar to rooftop photovoltaics (22 percent); nominal capacity from Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op.

The addition of close to 1,500 gigawatts of thermal heating capacity by 2020, roughly two thirds of it from rooftop solar water and space heaters, will sharply reduce the use of both oil and gas for heating buildings and water.

Waste water from the nearby factory is also recycled and routed for irrigation and use in the toilets, and a solar hot water heater produces warm water.

By the end of 2007, some 40 million Chinese homes will be getting their hot water from rooftop solar water heaters.

Many places use solar water heaters, and there are also concentrated solar power plants that generate electricity directly from the sun's heat rather than via PV, so the total amount of solar power is actually higher than the PV number alone.

There's the water heater, batteries, charge controller and inverter from the solar power system, a voltage transformer for the heat pump, heat recovery ventilator and propane tank.

* roof - mounted glycol solar panels that use energy from the sun to help warm the home's tankless hot water system, which heats only the water being used at any given time, saving up to 40 per cent over tank - style heaters;