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Re: Warmstore water heaters
Jim Baranski wrote:
>nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu (Nick Pine) wrote:
>
> One way to heat domestic hot water in a warmstore or solar closet of a
> passive solar house is to put an electric water heater in the warmstore...
>
>You would, of course, want the electric water heater to be *uninsulated*...
I'm not sure about that. Yes, during sunny times, maybe no, during not
so sunny times. I thought about taking the skin and insulation off my
electric water heater...
>How is this different (better?) from using a warm water heat storage tank, and
>just use that water for the domestic hot water?
Sounds good to me. How do you get the water warm tho? A "warmstore" (Norman
Saunders' term) or a solar closet can be a completely passive, simple thing,
with no solar collectors, pumps, etc.
Nick