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This is a place to get complete Energy Designs for your home or business and meet others who can contribute to produce custom heating, cooling and hot water packages featuring ultimate efficiency, perfect human thermal comfort and rugged reliability. Buy E-Book Designs with integrated energy products, specs, schematics and submittal to heat and cool your home, your water and more utilizing proven products such as solar, geothermal, thermal storage, radiant floors and zoned hydronic fan coils.

Monday, June 27, 2022

SunRoly Solar Co. announces the release of it's Evolutionary new Lil'Pad™ Solar Pool Heating/Cooling Panel.

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Just added a Solar Domestic Hot Water calculator below that helps you determine what it costs you to heat your domestic hot water with both gas or electric and what a crude payback would be with solar hot water.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Visit www.Turbonicsinc.com to see the New Mid-Velocity™ Blowers.

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SOLAR DOMESTIC HOT WATER CALCULATOR

Water Heating Calculator

Water Heater Characteristics
Domestic Hot Water Calculator
Physical		Thermal
Diameter (feet)		Water Inlet Temperature (Degrees F)
Capacity (gallons)		Ambient Temperature (Degrees F)
Surface Area (calculated - sq ft)		Hot Water Temperature (Degrees F)
Effective R-value		Hot Water Usage (Gallons per Day)
Energy Use
		Heat Delivered in Hot Water (BTU/hr)
		Heat loss through insulation (BTU/hr)

Gas vs. Electric Water Heating
Gas		Electric
	Overall Efficiency
	Conversion Efficiency	0.98
BTU/hr	Power Into Water Heater	BTU/hr
Cost
$/Therm	Utility Rates	$/kWh
$	Yearly Water Heating Cost	$
Do Alternative Energy Measures Make Sense?
Alternative Measure Cost: $		Percentage Solar:
years for gas	Payback Time for Alternative Measure	years for electric

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Build Your Own Hydronic System

BUILD A SYSTEM

This page will allow you to assemble your own, fully integrated Hydronic Heating and/or Cooling systems. By your selection from the options below you can calculate the equipment cost of your next system. .

Step 1: Enter your information below

Name
Company
Address
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Step 2. Select your range of Heat Loss:

Step 3. Enter your Radiant Floor Area: Sq. Ft. (optional)

Step 4. Select your System Type:

Step 5. Select your Fuel Type:

Step 6. Select your System Options:

NOTE:The systems shown here are representative only! Your actual system may vary

RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CALCULATOR

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*Energy Factors are based on data from the Annual Energy Outlook 1998, published

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