Larry wrote:
Al Thomason wrote in
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For heating water though

One wonders why we don't see the obvious solution to this hot water
problem more often....for free.....
http://tinyurl.com/sxuql

Australia has lots of water bladder websites. I suppose the simplest
solution is too simple for us Americans used to advanced technology they
don't have on the Outback.

http://www.fabricsolutions.com.au/liquid_bladders.htm

We are sold these rugged inflatable dingys and rafts made of nylon
materials that can easily withstand more pressure than your 12V water
pump can generate. So why can't we have a 6 gallon, flat black little
bladder that hangs off the stern with two black hoses, inlet bottom and
outlet top that pumps itself up and sits there in the FREE sunshine,
saving gallons of fuel by getting so hot you can't hold your hand on it
all day??

Well, maybe in Georgia it will work, us Europeans will get luke warm
water for 99% of the time. Oops, I mean -- it will stay *COLD* !

Admittedly, it is 30 degrees Celsius right now where I am typing this,
but that's not what we usually get. And with this steaming tropical
weather, hot water is not high on our priority list :-)

--
Kees

Kees Verruijt wrote:

Admittedly, it is 30 degrees Celsius right now where I am typing this,
but that's not what we usually get. And with this steaming tropical
weather, hot water is not high on our priority list :-)

30C is "steaming tropical weather"? We've hit 45C already, and summer is
just starting! Probably won't hit 50C this year (although we have a few
times). Enjoy the lovely winter you're having :=)

As for solar heating, I don't know what the suns' intensity is at your
latitude (when you see the sun, that is), but in the summer here (34°
latitude) it can be as high as 375 BTU/ft^2/hr (10WattHr/M^2/hr) with
the absorbing surface normal to the sunlight. So there's energy to be had.

Keith Hughes
(reclining in sunny Arizona)

Keith Hughes wrote in news:2%Rqg.12$K%5.388
@news.uswest.net:

Keith Hughes
(reclining in sunny Arizona)


You can cook eggs on the cabin top, here at 32N 80W in Charleston, SC, this
afternoon. The bank clock read 102F as I turned into the
neighborhood....whew! Unlike AZ, our humidity hovers around 90%....

here by the OCEAN...(C;