How to make a keen, easy-to-do solar technology from trash?
A Chinese farmer has made his own solar-powered water heater out of beer bottles and hosepipes.
Sunlight heats the water as is passes slowly through the bottles before flowing into the bathroom as hot water, reports China Economy Network.
He built it for his Momma, so she could have hot showers.
“We are converting waste heat to electricity in an efficient, simple way by using sound,” says Orest Symko, a University of Utah physics professor who leads the effort. “It is a new source of renewable energy from waste heat.”
Five of Symko’s doctoral students recently devised methods to improve the efficiency of acoustic heat-engine devices to turn heat into electricity. They will present their findings on Friday, June 8 during the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center hotel.
Symko plans to test the devices within a year to produce electricity from waste heat at a military radar facility and at the university’s hot-water-generating plant.
I can’t even begin to fully grasp this.
cmyk
June 6, 2007, 12:48am
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The funnest part about building one of these water heaters? Drinking all the beer.
cracks open a NewCastle while looking askance at his Honeywell tank
I’m suprised Tuckerfan did see this.