Tapping the Sun A Guide to Solar Water Heating by Chris Laughton

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This is an excellent book to help anyone understand how a solar thermal system can save money on fuel bills and reduce carbon emissions.

Winner of Product of the Year award - Professional Heating and Plumbing Installer magazine
Tapping the Sun answers your questions:
Will it work in our cold northern climate?
Will the costs outweigh the benefit and money saved?
How can I fit a solar panel into a central heating or hot water system?
What's the difference between a flat plate panel and an evacuated tube?
Where can I buy the necessary parts and get further information?

Fully revised and updated by experienced solar water heating installer Chris Laughton of The Solar Design Company, Tapping the Sun is the introduction you need if you want to upgrade your home hot water system to solar.

A complete step-by-step guide, Tapping the Sun covers all the elements of adapting a conventional domestic water heating system - from likely costs and equipment to basic mechanical principles and legal issues, it cuts right through the technical jargon and shows just how the changes can be made. With energy savings of 1000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year, solar water heating is one of the best ways a household can help address climate change and make use of the abundant free energy falling onto our roofs.

Many households can do it - there are many thousands of solar water heating systems fitted in the UK. Make your installation the next!

ISBN 1 90217 529 8 Ring Bound
Publication date October 2006
Format Pb - 111 x 175mm
Extent 64pp
Illustrations b/w photos and illustrations throughout