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- From: gordon@tramp.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R)
- Subject: Re: Lorenz' Weather
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:43:23 GMT
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- rbw3q@rayleigh.mech.Virginia.EDU (Brad Whitehurst) writes:
- >>
- > Quite a lot of solar heating systems were/are set up that
- >way. They are not as high performance as forced circulation, but
- >then, they don't have all the hardware, either. The cooling systems
- >in some old engines were thermosyphon also. And any process where you
- >are heating a vessel from the bottom could exhibit this behavior,
- >couldn't they? (you'd have convection cells, rather than water
- >running in a pipe, though)
-
- >--
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- >Brad Whitehurst | Aerospace Research Lab
- >rbw3q@Virginia.EDU | We like it hot...and fast.
-
-
- A couple of fairly recent applications include some very inexpensive solar
- hot water systems, that circulate heated water from the collector to the
- storage tank by virtue of the convective effect.
-
- There is a device that uses heat from a wood stove to heat water in a coil
- that rises to a special condenser above the stove. The heated water then
- circulates around a closed heating loop and back to the coil in the stove.
-
- Its all 'passive'. Is not the old coffee percolator an example of this effect?
-
- allen
- --
- Allen Gordon *If the folly of but one of us was changed to*
- Research Associate *intelligence, and divided amongst a thousand*
- gordon@tramp.colorado.edu *toads, each would be more intelligent than *
- *Aristotle *
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