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tahanson43206

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Solar Water heating - history and future of

SpaceNut remembered that solar water heaters were developed and implemented in California in the early 1900's...

This topic is offered in hopes NewMars members might be interested in collecting information about the history of such systems, and reporting on any future developments that might occur, for home or industrial purposes.

I asked Google what it might be able to find, and it came back with what looks like a significant collection of snippets...

Back in the early 1900's solar water heaters were common in California and Florida. As electricity became available and cheap, people started using it to heat their hot water. The solar collector is basically the same as it was back then.

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tahanson43206

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Re: Solar Water heating - history and future of

Here are a few more snippets about solar water heating in the United States in the 1800's before oil and electricity became common...

A Day & Night Solar Heater Company Pamphlet, ca. 1921https://homesteadmuseum.blog › 2019/08/22 › solar-pa...
Aug 22, 2019 — The development of natural gas from the oil fields of California was the death knell for solar water heating but there was also another issue ...
Missing: 1900's | Must include: 1900's

A Solar Energy Heyday - The Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com › archive › 1979/09/16
Sep 16, 1979 — In the late 1800s, heating water was a daily challenge for people in the Sunbelt. There wasn't much wood around and coal was expensive. A simple ...
Missing: 1900's oil

The History of Solar - gov.energy.eere.www1https://www1.eere.energy.gov › solar_timeline
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The system is used to provide for water pumping and residential electricity in 15 homes until 1983, when grid power reached the village. The PV system was then ...
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Antique Attic Water Tanks vs Antique Solar Water Heatershttps://inspectapedia.com › Solar › Solar_Water_Heater...
Early solar water heaters for making domestic hot water: In this article we describe an asbestos-insulated attic-mounted tank ultimately identified as a hot ...

The History of the Solar Hot Water Heater

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Re: Solar Water heating - history and future of

It will be assumed that man will make use of electrical hot water onboard any ship or destination as its the simplest to implement but is it the most or least energy efficient for how to do when the source of power is out. We know that a design does have many variations that can improve just as much as drop its collection of energy that is possible.

These old solar hot water tanks were just batch heating thermal syphon style, and it has come a long way with flat panel collectors and solar concentrating units of many flavors and materials being used of course now in a wide range of temperate zones.
There are lots of these on the build it solar site to choose a design and build to make it your own as a do it yourselfer.