Water at Home and Play

About 20% of a household’s power consumption bill is for the heating of water. Most of this heated water is stored in cistern or storage tank systems which lose between 10% and 20% of the heat used to increase the temperature of water from the ambient temperature to the selected hot water temperature.With such a […]

For heating water in a household system solar energy would be captured and used to heat the water in the water cistern. The use of solar energy would be supplemented when necessary by conventional use of electricity or a by a fuel heated boiler system as shown in the sketch.The diagram above is from the […]