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Is there a way to store the heat I collect?
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Rick H Parker: Yes, it is called thermal storage. Fortunately, water is clean, cheap, easily circulated and makes excellent thermal storage. Here is a link with...
Big storage tank or multiple small storage tanks and options how to extract heat from them
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antegtvn: Hello everybody! I need your advice and expertise. I'm planning to create solar heating for my home (163 square meters) with radiant heating and...
storage in a green house
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willyP: I am designing my new home. My storage idea is, I will build a greenhouse into the south side of the house. This will hold my hot water storage and...
Store heat in the concrete slab?
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sundug: Years ago i built a collector to warm up my shop. It works well on sunny days but i feel i am fighting the slab. On the coldest days if i warm the...
Is 55 gallons a useful amount of thermal storage for a bedroom?
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myk3y: I'm thinking about doing a small solar heating project in part of my home. I have one of those common blue plastic 55 gallon barrels and was...
Year round heat storage
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Strus: It sounds silly, but I'm still dreaming about heating my house ONLY by the sun, nothing else. I think I have about the same amount of heating degree...
Are there any reasons I should not use and oil tank with oil in it for storage.
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stmbtwle: I switched to geothermal heating a few years ago and am using my old oil tank for storage for my backup generator. As it is on the south side of my...
Swimming Pool As Solar Thermal Storage
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Nessie: Using a swimming pool as a heat sink was mentioned in this topic ( link ) by Nessie. There's certainly lost of volume there. Other considerations...
Permitting/inspection?
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trendawareness: Hi all, I'm a newbie, and am thoroughly enjoying all the info pics and testing here. My question is, do your towns or cities require...
Cryogenic Storage
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stmbtwle: Interesting future possibilities http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37902773
Storage tanks
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stmbtwle: I was wondering if I build a 5000 gallon tank on m basement made hot water, if unused till winter would it stay hot if insulated with 12" of...
Something thin and light to add my my solar air heater
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gbwillson: So, what is something thin and fairly light that I could put inside a typical shallow air heater that could store up some heat and extend the useful...
building a scalable heatbank
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jamieF: Hi guys, been very busy with other stuff but now I'm back to solar. This summer I want to build a scalable heatbank. I need your thoughts on...
Hybrid storage tank heat exchanger
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colinmcc: I was thinking that a hybrid pex/copper heat exchanger might improve performance. The idea would be to have 300 feet of 1" pex either in...
Importance of tank aspect ratio on stratification
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sublimesun: Hi, All, I found this interesting study, which FWIW I have attempted to digest... ...
Is there a list of volumetric heat capacities?
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Garage_Hermit: I'm looking for a list of volumetric heat capacities of various building / solar mass materials -- concrete, water, wood, brick, adobe. I find...
ratchet straps to hold tank together?
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Garage_Hermit: I just ran across this back yard pool made of pallets held together with some big ratchet straps. ...
heat capacity 15 times more than water ??
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stmbtwle: I discovered there is a research facility of our provincial power utility only a few miles from where I live. On their site I found THIS: ...
Partitioned Heat Storage Tank
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mattie: http://www.builditsolarblog.com/2015/01/large-diy-serpentine-drainback-solar.html From the Build-It-Solar site "The system also uses a...
275 gallon plastic totes
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Gray Edwards: Hi guys just a quick question what about plastic totes for a storage tank with insulation of course wonder if these would be able to handle the heat...
Thermal energy storage using salt
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mattie: Heat exchanger Dissolved
Zeolite
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Coachgeo: I was just reading about this but it's not yet exactly clear to me how a practical application for residential heating would look like. Anybody did...
how do you do a stress analysis on a water storage tank?
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jamieF: I'm playing in sketchup trying to design a water storage tank that will fit in my given space. Things get far easier if I flip the banding 2x4's...
Floor Joists Filled with 2 Liter Bottles of Water?
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Garage_Hermit: Let me qualify this post by saying I don't know what I'm doing. Just experimenting. I've currently got 150 sq ft of glazing on my solarium/porch...
Thermal Mass of Air is 1/4th That of Water?
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paullad: Disregard. Sorry.

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