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This video of a solar hot water installation in a solar power house was created by Bowdoin College students www.bowdoin.edu in cooperation with the Maine Energy Investment Corporation www.renewmaine.org.

Duration : 0:5:27

Evacuated Tube Solar Hot Water Panel System

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  1. torotoz Said,

    yeah , but solar …
    yeah , but solar system doesn’t have any co2 emission, Last forever, Sun belongs to all of us, you dont pay bill to any big corporation etc etc

  2. TheDudeRulez09 Said,

    this is were …
    this is were constructing your own solar heating system from easily purchased or recycled materials beats out manufactured system hands down everytime!!! I build my own systems here in Houston Texas and I love it, the savings are instant! due to the fact that I try to cut as much conventional power usage out all together.

  3. lights21002003 Said,

    ah yes very nice …
    ah yes very nice system *****5stars*****

  4. varmitr Said,

    well put and good …
    well put and good analogy thank you!

  5. 08octavarium8 Said,

    Yeah, but it’s …
    Yeah, but it’s cancelled out because a boiler system will have a similar carbon cost from production, but the boiler system will last around 2 times longer so it won’t need to be replaced as much so it kinda halfs that approximately. So it’s not just extra. Although boiler systems will have a smaller carbon cost, this should reduce as this technology takes off and is built in bulk and more economically viable and blah blah blah..

  6. varmitr Said,

    just curious, how …
    just curious, how much energy is required to build a single solar panel or vac tube?
    therefore, how long does that device have to work to provide a feasible returns equal to its construction?
    days weeks months years? if it takes 5 years worth of energy to construct it, and twenty serviceable years, it really only has a 15 year cost recovery. Am i making sense or not?
    thanks

  7. varmitr Said,

    hi rix, id said …
    hi rix, id said screw the grid tie, just get stand alone and get away from the rest of people/utilities.
    personal pride in ownership. the grid tie for me is about $40,000 more

  8. nabasdak Said,

    what happens when …
    what happens when it snows or rains, do those solar panels capture sun to work the heating system?

  9. razorx71 Said,

    the US has the most …
    the US has the most natural gas on the planet, enough to last 500 years – natural gas is just methane (97%) and can be found in coal deposits, or gathered from landfills.

  10. RixDobbs Said,

    This is a wonderful …
    This is a wonderful idea: Well presented. Now if they could generate electricity and run the electric meter backward – with a ‘grid-tie’ invertor.

  11. soylentgreenb Said,

    Gas is just …
    Gas is just indirect solar. And it won’t be cheap for much longer unless you’re willing to go dig up methane clathrates from the sea floor.

  12. ljpacey Said,

    dont they have gas
    dont they have gas

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