Sentences with phrase «thermal water heater»

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.

Using solar thermal water heaters also helps in this regard.

Paul will use grid - interactive electric thermal water heaters to enable the Midwest's first community energy storage project.

Not exact matches

The property, occupying a beachfront stretch surrounded by 125 acres of wilderness preserve, has just 11 wooden bungalows, all of which are screened, fan - cooled, elevated on stilts (translation: no air - conditioning necessary), and have composting toilets, solar - powered electricity, hot water generated by thermal heaters, and comfy king - size beds with hemp and organic cotton linens.

«Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of the electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.»

A 105 - gallon electric water heater in one of our buildings demonstrates thermal storage and can respond to either a regulation or price signal from PJM.

Solar water heaters come in a wide variety of designs, all including a collector and storage tank, and all using the sun's thermal energy to heat water.

Tankless water heaters eliminate the need to store thermal energy, reducing energy loss.

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.

We don't have visible light saunas, we have thermal infrared saunas; we don't have visible light heaters to heat our homes, we have thermal infrared heaters heating matter directly, just as the real thermal infrared direct from the Sun heats the matter on the Earth's surface directly; heats water of the oceans, heats the land, heats it so intensely at the equator that it gives us our HUGE and dramatic WINDS flowing from the equator to the poles and back again.

This problem can be avoided by using either an alternative gas water heater or a solar system design that allows solar heated water to heat the backup water heater, even when no one is using hot water (a special type of natural «thermal - siphon» pipe loop is sometimes used to accomplish this).

Inspired by the rapid adoption of rooftop water and space heaters in Europe in recent years, the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) has established an ambitious goal of 500 million square meters, or one square meter of rooftop collector for every European by 2020, a goal that exceeds the 0.74 square meters per person today in Israel, the world leader.

Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.

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.

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.

Another troubling area for me was when we designed a hydronic heating system using the Life Breath Clean Air Furnace that made its hot water with a combination of solar thermal backed up by an on - demand water heater, the calculation for energy consumption was based soley on the AFUE of the back - up water - heater.

Last but not least, an electric on - demand water heater can boost the water temperature if the combination of waste - water heat recovery and solar thermal pre-heating do not make it hot enough.

Tankless water heaters offer significant energy savings over conventional storage - tank water heaters, because thermal losses to the environment are much less.

Assuming the heater is 80 % efficient, and using well - seasoned firewood, Ernst estimates output at 220,000 BtuBritish thermal unit, the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water (about a pint) one degree Fahrenheit in temperature — about the heat content of one wooden kitchen match.