Solar Hot water panel questions

[Naptown]

Back in the late 70's I installed 4 Arkla Servel 5 ton package gas fired absorbtion units. Haven't seen them since. There was no market for them as they were only 50% efficient and if you were not getting your gas for free they were expensive to run and maintain compared to standard 6 SEER A/C.
Lots of heat is wasted in the aborbtion process, but it sure would beat just dumping excess BTU's in the summer.

It would certainly make more sense than what the alternatives are now. Being in the mid atlantic we have cold winters and hot summers. Space heating makes little sense as our heating season is relatively short. If some cooling could be added to make a space heat system work longer than a few months it may be worthwhile.

[LucMan]

The Yazaki unit is interesting! Any idea of cost for the 10 ton unit?

Russ

Not really but a good guess would be $1000 per ton.