Hi Oskar, thanks, good pull-together.
Hi I wanted to add a few comments here,
but came to think it is not really needed.
Not really, no. :-(
One thing to add, I think most domestic hot water in Japan is
currently heated by passive solar systems.
Best
Keith
According to Nikkei Newspaper of
Thank you for your reply.
2007, solar thermal systems installed total in Japan
residential use was 1%, simple batch heaters less than 7%
and rapidly *de*creasing.
source: http://www.ssda.or.jp/profile/databook.pdf p27
In Tokyo, the *first* condo with solar thermal was
just put on the market a
On 9/12/2010 3:46 AM, Keith Addison wrote:
Hi Robert
Ah, what joys we have to come. :-( Now that the basic damage is done
and global warming is right here with us, not just over the horizon
or only a myth or whatever, it doesn't seem to take very much to tip
things over, does it?
Yet
That doesn't seem to be right, Oskar.
This is from Wikipedia, mostly about PV:
Solar power in Japan has been expanding since the late 1990s. The
country is a leading manufacturer of solar panels and is in the top
5 ranking for countries with the most solar PV installed. Japan is
third in the
Should I bother with fooling with this any longer?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africapowerandlight/
I got no response at Maker Faire Africa (or anywhere else) and am about to pack
it in and go on to my latest
project http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Multimachine-Concrete-Machine-Tools/
I hope I
The puzzle is easy to solve - you are confusing completely different
forms of solar energy:
In your first comment you mentioned passive solar water heaters,
in connection with most domestic hot water in Japan,
which is solar _thermal_.
I quoted the proliferation data for solar thermal water
I understood that Japan didn't subsidize that heavily at least not
compared to north american electricity rates.
In Canada the rate is about 6 cents per kwh but then they add surcharges
and debt recovery for our defunct candu reactors that never run right
and the total charge is about 13 cents
