Re: GBlist: hybrid systems: passive solar + everything??

[Alan Courtright <acourtri@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Renewable News Network wrote:

> If one wants to distribute thermal energy, you need temperature.  To get
> temperature from the sun, one needs a flat plate collector component that
> is designed to perform that task primarily, as opposed to a window
> aperature that is doing other things as well, such as, providing a view
> for occupants in a comfortable room temeperature space.

What this world needs is a good one-way thermal transfer medium.  So I can
stick a flat plate in the ground facing the sun, and when night comes the
heat it gathered and transfered to the ground will stay in the ground,
instead of being radiated back out.  Where is the Edison of solar heat
transfer?

                         -|//*Alan Courtright*\\|=   
                                Poulsbo, WA
                             acourtri@krl.org
                       


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