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Solar Water Heaters

Going Solar.

November 9, 2009 Solar Water Heaters

Solar Water Heaters have always been the first step when “going solar” due to low cost and high power density. The weight of conventional collectors made the installation very difficult and expensive until the advent of new light weight, affordable collectors.  All the new efficiently designed solar thermal systems will save you money on energy no [...]

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Solar water heaters, & foreign policy

November 9, 2009 Solar Water Heaters

Flat-plate collectors for solar water heating were around in Florida and Southern California in the 1920s.  However Levi Yissar built the first prototype Israeli solar water heater in 1953 when he started NerYah Company, Israel’s, and Europe’s first commercial manufacturer of solar water heaters.
During the  1960’s there was some resurgence of interest in solar heating [...]

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