By Susan Kraemer •
August 29, 2009
If you live in one of the states now sweltering through heat waves; even more frequent sweltering days are in your future as a result of climate change.
But it’s not only your children’s children who will suffer heat waves more often. Your property values in these states will also sink over time as your neighborhoods heat up to unlivable levels over the next decades.
A/C will be a necessity. But adding a heat recovery system will at least cut those losses to your home values:
By Susan Kraemer •
July 17, 2009
OK, he’s not exactly a retired rocket scientist; he’s a retired airplane product development engineer - but Gary Reysa has built his own homemade very simple-tech solar hotwater system that is the functional and thermal equivalent of commercial systems costing 6 or 7 times as much!
This simple design has survived Montana winters with temperatures down to minus 30F with not even a hint of a problem, while providing an unusually high solar fraction of 94% (75% is typical of commercial solar hot water systems.)
For details and a picture of his solar thermal shed hit the fold:
