alt.energy.homepower

nicksanspam@ wrote:
> Bob Pietrangelo wrote:
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>>>You might come to the Pennsylvania Renewable Energy Festival next week,
>>>where I'll be talking about how to heat a house with an auto radiator:
>>> .
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>>My son and I are going on Sunday, when are you speaking.
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> At 2:30 on Saturday in the yellow flag tent (1 of 8). PhD Nathan Hurst
> will be talking about his Mazda radiator solar heating experiments in
> Australia at 3:30 on Sunday in the red flag tent (a late program change.)
> PhD Rich Komp will be talking about energy-efficient food storage at 3:30
> on Saturday in the blue flag tent and new developments in photovoltaics
> at 4:30 on Sunday in the white flag tent. We'll be at an "ask the engineer"
> table at other times. About 6,000 people came the first year and 12,000
> last year. Will there be 24,000 this year? :-)
>
> BTW, it would simplify the damper arrangements if we could pull hot sunspace
> air through the radiator with its fans during the day to heat water and push
> house air through it to heat the house at night. Does anyone know if late
> model Japanese radiators (eg my $35 '95 Mitsubishi Eclipse) 12V fans have
> brushes that are slanted in the normal rotation direction in a way that lets
> the commutators quickly grind them up in reverse?



Lowes has a ton of of twin fan window mounts.

I believe they are either 8" or 10" and they run three speeds in either
direction. Digital indoor thermostat

Not a lot of CFM, but about $25 this time of year.

Jeff
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> Thanks,
>
> Nick
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