Comments on: Energy adviser: Solar water heaters work in Northwest http://www.residentialenergykit.com/blog/solar-hot-water/energy-adviser-solar-water-heaters-work-in-northwest/ Research & Share Energy Information Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:53:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dr. Ben - Solar Inventor http://www.residentialenergykit.com/blog/solar-hot-water/energy-adviser-solar-water-heaters-work-in-northwest/comment-page-1/#comment-799 Dr. Ben - Solar Inventor Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:39:27 +0000 http://www.residentialenergykit.com/blog/?p=1141#comment-799 Another solid article. To my understanding, Germany has mandated solar hot water systems on all new construction. Europe is now way ahead of the US in the adoption of solar therm systems and is selling their equipment to us. In the mid ’80s, I worked with a builder who decided to include solar energy as a standard feature in all of his homes. He ended up building seventy homes in Jacksonville, NC, about twelve homes in Rome, GA, and five or six in Chapel Hill. Each house has passive and active solar systems. The passive solar system provides space heating during the day and the active solar system provides space heating and hot water in the evening or whenever the passive was spent. Some of these homes had solar fractions as high as 80%! During this time, solar thermal systems were becoming accepted in the housing market as standard equipment. The market was maturing with proven technology. Unfortunately, the federal government pulled the rug out from under us by repealing the solar tax credits. Most of the marketplace collapsed as a result. Let's get it right this time, Dr. Ben Another solid article. To my understanding, Germany has mandated solar hot water systems on all new construction. Europe is now way ahead of the US in the adoption of solar therm systems and is selling their equipment to us.

In the mid ’80s, I worked with a builder who decided to include solar energy as a standard feature in all of his homes. He ended up building seventy homes in Jacksonville, NC, about twelve homes in Rome, GA, and five or six in Chapel Hill. Each house has passive and active solar systems. The passive solar system provides space heating during the day and the active solar system provides space heating and hot water in the evening or whenever the passive was spent. Some of these homes had solar fractions as high as 80%!

During this time, solar thermal systems were becoming accepted in the housing market as standard equipment. The market was maturing with proven technology. Unfortunately, the federal government pulled the rug out from under us by repealing the solar tax credits. Most of the marketplace collapsed as a result.

Let’s get it right this time,
Dr. Ben

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