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  • russ
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    Well done Mountain! I believe you are correct that this can be called a solar application.

    Good benefit for minimum investment which is what everyone is looking for.

    Waste heat that you have already worked for (or paid for) is captured and put to use rather than going up the chimney.

    Between this and Mountain's solar thermal air heater he is saving a lot of wood cutting and splitting!

    Russ

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  • mountain
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    Photos have been added o the pdf document

    Photos have been added o the pdf document

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  • mountain
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    Wood-Stove Hot-Water system

    The attached link is a draft of an article on Wood-Stove Hot-Water
    http://mountainelectric.ca/AltEnergy...veHotWater.pdf

    Unfortunately I could not add photos, as I have camera issues.

    It works!
    Is wood-heat Solar energy? I think so. Of course we are lucky to live in rural BC, with an endless & renewable supply of free firewood. But this article focuses on a system to reduce external (electric) energy for domestic hot-water. It uses a creative plumbing arrangement such that no special tank is required, just the existing un-modified tank. This approach is applicable to solar-thermal HWT as well.
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