jemch72

Well, weather here never get to frizing conditions, I am in florida, usa, and low temp days are about 45f but summer is hot, always over 85f, in cold days the solar water heater work perfect, the thermostast on the electric water heater is on, just in case, never turned it off, just it dont call for power as the inside water temp is high, so basicly it dont use electric power , just if is so cold and cloudy...but man, from a montly bill of 160 dollars down to 70 dollars times 12 months...is money and i dont know what you mean with wasted heat, the house heating system runs from hot water circulating under the floors...but we use it like to months a year in winter....the cold water idea did not work, i tryed cooling water with peltier arrange, but was not effective way...

Hero999

I was talking about cooling the hot pipes on the air conditioner with water.

45°F? I didn't think days could be that cold in Florida, 45°F is about 7°C which is average for the south of England, mind you a cold day here is literally freezing. I suppose you get more more winter sun than we do, it's normally cloudy here.

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jemch72

Yes, well, we hit 45 like 3 weeks ago for about 3 days, then 55 to 68 for entire week, the it come back to 50 for 2 days ...it snow up north and cold wind make to miami, even the keys...but normally, the cold come with nice clear days with no clouds at all....well, for the a/c , i am just trying new ideas and concepts...not fixing or improving the old compressor system...

gramo

<3 Australia's weather, well it's no good in some places, but generally its great

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there won't be one solution to the energy but solar is quite promising along with conservation, we human beings are very wasteful with power.
nuclear ? well yes it may not be as polluting but what do we do with all the radioactive waste ? and it can be very risky - aka the Russians - Chernobyl ? the only safe nuclear power is the sun = solar power.
another key is to reduce transportation, just the fact of producing power on site can save energy as well

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HarveyH42

How come nobody has come up with a better way of using nuclear power? Got be a better way to get electricity from radiation, besides heating water for a steam turbine generator. Really not a field of interest to me, always seemed odd that only a small amount of the fuel is used, to turn the same power generating turbines used by any other kind of power plant.

mneary

Not to mention nuclear "waste"? There are still a lot of energetic particles wandering around in that waste. Can they be captured by "solar" panels?

Sceadwian

Probably not overly efficient or practicle, the radiation changes almost any material it's near given enough time, and semi conductors are not radiation stable. Who knows though, I'm no nuclear physicist =)

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