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re: warm flat plate collectors??
5 aug 2002
news wrote:
>>rich komp, phd... recently gave a workshop in london on hybrid
>>solar panels (which produce hot water as well as electricity)
>>and installed one there.
>is this a half water panel and half pv cells in one plate?
better: it's half the usual number of pv cells under 2 suns, behind
winston non-imaging reflector troughs. the pvs are attached to copper
water pipes for cooling, aka water heating.
a typical panel produces 150 w electric and 1600 w of water heating at
the same time, using pv cells that would produce 75 watts under 1 sun.
nick
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