Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-09-01 Thread Ken Chua
it or mechanical engineers who deal with HVAC etc. Best Regards to all. Ken --- On Fri, 28/8/09, Dawie Coetzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dawie Coetzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window > To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.o

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window - absorbtion cooling.

2009-08-28 Thread Guag Meister
; > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window > To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org > Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 11:39 PM > The old ammonia-absorption process > should be able to work with biofuel or wood as a fuel.    > -D > > > > > ___

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-27 Thread Dawie Coetzee
ct: Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window Keith - I looked at your response to the solar window post and link. I remember seeing a movie called the Mosquito Coast (possibly with Harrison Ford) set in Africa (I think). The man developed a freezer burning wood. After seeing the picture on your link,

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-27 Thread Gary Frank
TED] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 6:25 AM To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window Indeed. Low-yield photo-thermal is interesting to me right now. There seems to me to be useful energy available in indirect hot-water collectors at stagnation, if one

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-25 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Jason > > I don't >> really know my way round solar stuff (yet - next stop maybe), so my >> sense of what smells right doesn't go very far. > >Keith, > >don't sell yourself short, solar is simple. you only really have two >options, transferring energy, or reflecting it. the only hangup is

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-24 Thread Dawie Coetzee
e must surely be more > scope for workable guidelines for the informal constructor than what > is out there now. > > Best regards > > Dawie Coetzee > > > > > ____________ From: Jason Mier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelist

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-24 Thread Zeke Yewdall
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Darryl McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Evacuated vacuum tube systems are gaining in favour for solar water > heating locally in recent years, though I'm still not a fan. They just > seem overly complex and expensive for their gains over low-tech approaches.

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-24 Thread Darryl McMahon
an what > is out there now. > > Best regards > > Dawie Coetzee > > > > > ____ From: Jason Mier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, 24 August, > 2009 11:52:45 Subject: R

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-24 Thread Jason Mier
, etc. > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:25:12 + > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window > > Indeed. Low-yield photo-thermal is interesting to me right now. There seems > to me to be useful en

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-24 Thread Dawie Coetzee
ent: Monday, 24 August, 2009 11:52:45 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window > I don't > really know my way round solar stuff (yet - next stop maybe), so my > sense of what smells right doesn't go very far. Keith, don't sell yourself short, solar is simpl

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-24 Thread Jason Mier
> I don't > really know my way round solar stuff (yet - next stop maybe), so my > sense of what smells right doesn't go very far. Keith, don't sell yourself short, solar is simple. you only really have two options, transferring energy, or reflecting it. the only hangup is PV uses expensive

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-21 Thread Keith Addison
Thanks very much, one and all - snake oil, right. It didn't smell right to me either, though you spotted more than I did, but I don't really know my way round solar stuff (yet - next stop maybe), so my sense of what smells right doesn't go very far. Thanks again - all best Keith _

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-20 Thread Chris Burck
i think dave hit the nail on the head. snakeoil, at least insofar as residntial applications are concerned, since metal windowframes are primarily found in commercial, industrial and high-rise settings. thermal reflectance is nice, but the thermal gain? that's going to happen anyway. their panel

[Biofuel] solar collector window

2009-08-20 Thread Fritz
Hello Keith, at first like a miraclesolution... but than,maybe the end of interiorplants etc. as long as americans still live in an age where you need the fireplacetools to open the windows (famos clip by Disney with Donald Duck) and where people shrinkwrap their windows every begin of winter tho