Subject: Re: Warmstore water heaters

From: [email-masked] (Nick Pine)
Date: 14 Jun 1995 15:24:28 -0400

Jim Baranski wrote:

>[email-masked] (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