MARTHA’S VINEYARD, MA — Nelson Mechanical Design installed a 20-collector solar hot water drain back system to provide pool heat, radiant floor heating, and domestic hot water pre-heat for a customer.

A solar pool heater uses a pump, a solar collector and piping in conjunction with your existing pool filter. The process is simple: The pump takes water from the pool, then forces it through the ...

Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...

Italian researchers have reviewed different system configurations for photovoltaic-thermal solar-assisted heat pumps in buildings. They say that using the PV-thermal collector as the heat pump’s ...

Parabolic trough solar collectors (PTCs) remain at the forefront of concentrated solar power technologies, converting solar irradiance into high-grade thermal energy through a curved reflective ...

The U.S. Solar Thermal Collectors Market is projected to grow from USD 3.85 Billion in 2025E to USD 7.27 Billion by 2033, at a CAGR of 8.30%. Growth is fueled by expanding residential and commercial ...

BALTIMORE, Jan. 18, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kalahari Greentech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:KHGT) released a statement today discussing the company's revenue projections for 2011. According to the American ...

Startup GMZ Energy raises $14 million to make materials that convert heat to electricity, including a solar hot thermal product and chips to draw electricity from car exhaust pipes. Martin LaMonica is ...

Today's solar collectors do an admirable job of collecting free energy from the sun but there's one huge drawback: if too much energy is concentrated in one place, they run the risk of frying ...

The black absorbers of parabolic-trough solar collectors are surrounded by borosilicate glass tubes in the focal line of the reflector. These tubes reflect a total of about eight per cent of the ...

A large solar farm being constructed in the Midwestern U.S., operated by one of the country’s largest power generation companies, has had to contend with a variety of site conditions that create ...