alt.energy.homepower

Bob Pietrangelo wrote:

>> 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:
>> .

>My son and I are going on Sunday, when are you speaking.

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?

Thanks,

Nick