Solar Heating!?
Question:
explainations please (not just yes or no)
Answer:
A Yahoo search for "solar water heaters" (include the quotation marks in the search box) yields 329,000 results. If you do the same search, and are willing to spend a little time exploring, I'm sure that you will quickly find the information you seek.
Good luck with your search.
It depends on where you live. If you live where it is overcast many days like Seattle it probably would not be woth the expense. If you live where you get a lot of sun like Arizona then it definitely would pay for itself.
If it was a good deal, it would be commonly available in new construction, and there would be a burgeoning industry retofitting it to existing homes. I haven't seen either. My guess is that it's merely a "nice" idea for now.
There has just been a BBC radio 4 discussion today about the companies that sell solar panels for heating water. The companies are guilty of hard sell and ripping off clients. Charging around £7,000 for a system to heat a tank of water, which when the sums are calculated would take over 25 years before gaining any cost benefit.
These companies are known to even sell their systems to people who have a combination boiler, which would make the solar heating system completely useless since a water tank is necessary for it to work. They do not provide the correct technical information and mislead the customer just to get a sale.
If you "invite" these companies into your home, you are not eligible for a cooling off period, whereby up to 7 days (I think) you can cancel the contract if you change your mind after signing in your home. Furthermore, if they sell under false pretences on the specification, they will not reimburse the customer, until litigation is brought against them.
Be very careful of the companies in this business area.
To perform the engineering calculations would be too much for this forum.
What you spend in construction costs - you would recoup in about 2-3 years.
The climate in England is not very conducive, therefore it's not viable
Nah.
no
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