Sir, Your videos are always very informative and great to watch. I'm going to BEG you to show how you have used these for a heat source. I'm beyond intrigued and really want to know more. I live in Maryland USA and we have been hurting from the high heating bills of this exceptionally cold winter. THANK YOU for posting. I appreciate it.
groutaone I'll be keeping an eye on your channel to see what you have in store for us. I'm looking forward to building a setup to try to heat up some drums of water to see how well I can build a system come this fall. The heating bills this year killed us.
I really cant wait to see what you end up doing with these. I'm really loving the performance of those things. Having an array of those tubes on our roof would cut our instant on fuel oil powered water heater use by like well shit, I don't know if we'd even need it anymore with a big enough thermal mass in the basement.
I presume that the level of light intensity is critical and that all the snow you have reflects all the sunlight encouraging maximum absorption by the tube and hence efficiency? I did wonder what might happen if it was hung out in the open air allowing 360 degree exposure if the results might be any different with the sun moving over the horizon. I'm amazed just how quick the response to sunlight exposure turns out to be let alone how high the temperature gets! -Thanks. Your demonstrational experiments have been most interesting and enlightening.
Remember Working on house in1987 Scottsdale Az.The home owner. was also Owner of Mfg plant panel .1st Home that ran 100% All year along off Solar . His electric Bill was in the form of a Check his smalles dec jan was around ,$1200. To $1700 Summer. You Can't do That anymore that messed up when Govt get in Involved screws it up.
A technology that's really advancing in leaps and bounds. Now if only the Sun shined more than a few days a year where I'm at, it would be all kinds of useful.
I am getting some solar tubes but I am interested in figuring out a way to heat water with them. Two of my ideas are: float the solar tube on a piece of heat resistant material such that the water flows in and out of the two at all times. My goal is to keep Stock tanks from freezing. The other is to make a copper conductor like the one you had in the video and submerge this in Stock tank. How did you make that? What is the item at the end of the copper tubing that is used to transmit the heat? Thank you for your help
These copper tubes in the center are mainly hollow tubes with a small quantity of water inside (small enough probably to prevent the tube from bursting on cold winter nights). As the evacuated tube heats up, the water inside boils up and the steam reaches the enlarged cylinder on top and heats it. However, if the cylinder reaches 370 deg. F (187 deg C) as seen in this video by Groutaone, this means that the steam pressure in the tube may reach about 1 MPa or 145 PSI. I am not sure these tubes are designed to withstand such high pressures on the long term. Normally, these enlarged cylinders are enclosed in a manifold where an antifreeze / coolant solution circulates to collect this heat and bring it inside the house. The manifold is also designed to prevent any water / snow ingression inside the evacuated tubes. But seeing such a tube perform so well at -19c is highly encouraging. And for those asking why not use photovoltaic, the reason is simple: For heating / hot water purposes, a collector is far more efficient than PV panels. Alternatively, a PV panel may be installed next to the evacuated tube collector to run a small pump to circulate the antifreeze / coolant thermal carrier. In renewable energy, there are uses for both PV and thermal solar.
If you are thinking on solar heating your house I suggest solar PV panels they will be the least expensive option at the moment. You just need the solar panels cables instead of pipes and resistive heat elements. I will do the same for my house I made the calculation and they will get at around 2.7cent/kWh of heat over a 25 years amortization period. Those solar evacuated tubes will be a few times more expensive than solar PV that was not the case just a few years back but now with under 1$/Watt solar panels it is.
surprising how well they work ,il be watching ,I heat with electric with no back up and even a small set up would help ,bet you could heat a 40 gallon tank in a short time at 360 degree heat in cold weather ,now figure how well it would do in milder weather .
At 1:17 Wind has no temperature effect, on any surface, other than skin..Planes fly at over 500 MPH in over -50..The aluminum skin, will still be the same temp as the ambient air...Other than that ..great video..
I'm fascinated by this, It's all new to me. Thanks for sharing.
Very Interesting! I might have to get some of these!
Very interesting! I should invest in those.
Sir, Your videos are always very informative and great to watch. I'm going to BEG you to show how you have used these for a heat source. I'm beyond intrigued and really want to know more. I live in Maryland USA and we have been hurting from the high heating bills of this exceptionally cold winter. THANK YOU for posting. I appreciate it.
Thanks for watching, I will make more videos on this, with a proper setup your heating bills would be a thing of the past
groutaone
I'll be keeping an eye on your channel to see what you have in store for us. I'm looking forward to building a setup to try to heat up some drums of water to see how well I can build a system come this fall. The heating bills this year killed us.
Pretty cool!
I really cant wait to see what you end up doing with these. I'm really loving the performance of those things. Having an array of those tubes on our roof would cut our instant on fuel oil powered water heater use by like well shit, I don't know if we'd even need it anymore with a big enough thermal mass in the basement.
Yep you got the right idea, store the heat and a proper sized setup would give you sweet free heat day and night
That is very interesting. Imagine using this heat source to drive a Stirling Engine connected to a small generator.
It is far better to directly heat water in a hot water tank.
i love heat pipes, they are used in laptops and computer cpu coolers
Thats cool, where did you get that?
First vid 29 below....second -22. Holy Cow....well maybe not....the cow would be frozen. That is one inhospitable place Sir!
It was -58 not far away from where groutaone lives.
I presume that the level of light intensity is critical and that all the snow you have reflects all the sunlight encouraging maximum absorption by the tube and hence efficiency?
I did wonder what might happen if it was hung out in the open air allowing 360 degree exposure if the results might be any different with the sun moving over the horizon.
I'm amazed just how quick the response to sunlight exposure turns out to be let alone how high the temperature gets!
-Thanks. Your demonstrational experiments have been most interesting and enlightening.
Are the solar tubes going to replace the stoker boiler system, or are they going to be used as a dual fuel type of system?
Cool!
Remember Working on house in1987 Scottsdale Az.The home owner. was also Owner of Mfg plant panel .1st Home that ran 100% All year along off Solar
.
His electric Bill was in the form of a Check his smalles dec jan was around ,$1200. To $1700 Summer.
You Can't do That anymore
that messed up when Govt get in Involved screws it up.
Nice little Thermal Gun eh!! I have the same one!!☺
Indeed, has come in handy many times over the years
Run that hot liquid metal through copper coils to heat your home green house water and even make a hot plate to cook on too! Novartis!
A technology that's really advancing in leaps and bounds. Now if only the Sun shined more than a few days a year where I'm at, it would be all kinds of useful.
I am getting some solar tubes but I am interested in figuring out a way to heat water with them. Two of my ideas are: float the solar tube on a piece of heat resistant material such that the water flows in and out of the two at all times. My goal is to keep Stock tanks from freezing. The other is to make a copper conductor like the one you had in the video and submerge this in Stock tank. How did you make that? What is the item at the end of the copper tubing that is used to transmit the heat? Thank you for your help
These copper tubes in the center are mainly hollow tubes with a small quantity of water inside (small enough probably to prevent the tube from bursting on cold winter nights).
As the evacuated tube heats up, the water inside boils up and the steam reaches the enlarged cylinder on top and heats it.
However, if the cylinder reaches 370 deg. F (187 deg C) as seen in this video by Groutaone, this means that the steam pressure in the tube may reach about 1 MPa or 145 PSI. I am not sure these tubes are designed to withstand such high pressures on the long term.
Normally, these enlarged cylinders are enclosed in a manifold where an antifreeze / coolant solution circulates to collect this heat and bring it inside the house. The manifold is also designed to prevent any water / snow ingression inside the evacuated tubes.
But seeing such a tube perform so well at -19c is highly encouraging.
And for those asking why not use photovoltaic, the reason is simple: For heating / hot water purposes, a collector is far more efficient than PV panels. Alternatively, a PV panel may be installed next to the evacuated tube collector to run a small pump to circulate the antifreeze / coolant thermal carrier.
In renewable energy, there are uses for both PV and thermal solar.
Grouta- is that a Solarmax tube?
so is there normally something there in place of the rag? very cool!
Yes, normally there is a high temp insulator there
Hi, can u tell me what its
brand, and from which
factory, thanks.
I just want to fill that tube with ants.
Aaawweeeeessooommeeeee!!!!!
Where did you obtain that tube ?
How does the heat travel from the rod to somewhere useful? The house for instance? Would you put a water tank on the top and super heat the tank?
That heat bulb would insert into a flowing water jacket and then into a floor heat system or hot water forced air
That's pretty impressive isn't it G1? What exactly are those tubes anyways? Hot stuff!!
These are solar hot water heaters, about 150 of them would nicely heat my shop
groutaone
I'll say they would! Probably be enough left over to heat mine too! lol
groutaone How much does one cost?
montez341 $25 but they are normally sold in sets
Why do you put the ambient temperature in celsius but the boiler thing in Fahrenheit, so confusing ....
Is it still working?
If you hook these up to sterling engines you might get better efficiency than PV.
Smokin HOT! lol so HOT! how long have u been doing? how long will they last? How cold can they get?
Too bad they don't hold up too well in cold weather like we have.
where did you get this stuff?
I found it by searching Ebay
good am Grouta,im from Sask. i am wondering if its possible to speak with you regarding your system privately?
Send me a private message on you tube
groutaone.... Not sure if this is your private line or not... Sorry not too big on you tube things... But yours got my attention.
I was trying to private message you also ----How do we message you ? i was on your account page and couldnt find a message link ??
Where do you buy these? mmmmm cheese
If you are thinking on solar heating your house I suggest solar PV panels they will be the least expensive option at the moment.
You just need the solar panels cables instead of pipes and resistive heat elements.
I will do the same for my house I made the calculation and they will get at around 2.7cent/kWh of heat over a 25 years amortization period.
Those solar evacuated tubes will be a few times more expensive than solar PV that was not the case just a few years back but now with under 1$/Watt solar panels it is.
so what can this be used to power or to heat ?
This works great with floor heating
that is cool
How do you use a thing like that?
This works great with floor heating but lots of them are needed to heat one building
surprising how well they work ,il be watching ,I heat with electric with no back up and even a small set up would help ,bet you could heat a 40 gallon tank in a short time at 360 degree heat in cold weather ,now figure how well it would do in milder weather .
So... Why cant you cover your house in solar vacuum panels and heat your house.
You don't even need to cover the house just put as much as needed to be warm don't cook yourself
Cool er I mean hot.
harness it use it and save lots of money I
Burt ur Hand eh?
At 1:17 Wind has no temperature effect, on any surface, other than skin..Planes fly at over 500 MPH in over -50..The aluminum skin, will still be the same temp as the ambient air...Other than that ..great video..
check your private messages. i messaged you about a visit. cheers!
mike dueck
FIRST! Ha
how gratifying it must be . lmao