Solar Hot Water Heater Installation - Corbett Kroehler

[kyoclone02]

there's alotta ohs issue happening in this video :(

[lvennard]

I missed that website near the end.. could you repeat it please?

[MikeHawk4You]

North and south pole are switching. Global worming is BS!

[neno2010ist1]

the narrator sucks balls

[MB031]

Yes,I'm for green energy too.But Make it affordable for middle class or low income people.It's just another way to rip people off.There is no need to be greedy to go with green technology.Seems like a new thing but it's very old and it's possible to sell it at much lower cost!Make it wanted,not hated!

[twanaj88]

global warning is a fraud !!!!! but i love free energy !!

[lakesidewelder]

@twanaj88 bingo!!

[bisexualbuffthug]

This is all about that global warming nonsense!!!!! Global warming is the biggest world wide lie going around the globe!!! If global warming was true it dayum show would not be as cold as it's been getting here in texas!!! I hate nonsense!

[Brucey55]

To the negative comments...

1. As soon as 'turned on' quality solar systems start paying for themselves NO OTHER home applicance can do that.

2. Unlike cheap water heaters, solar collectors will last 30 years+

3. Home made equipment will not last = poor fittings, rotting wood, gawd awful attachment to home, lousy aesthetics, negative or zero added value to home.

4. Quality systems will add to the value and resale of the home, not to mention real displacement of greenhouse gasses.

[jwillbr]

all thay have to say is green, thats just what it say's green means its going to cost a lot of green to save a little in the end. all this green is out of hand make so working ppl can buy this and the earth will be green faster. if this water heater for 2 ppl cost 5,000.00 i can run down to the home store and get a 40 gal for 300.00 and cost me under 20.00 a month to run it so where's the insentive to go green

yes i'm a tree hugger but i can only hug what i can buy, good jobs are far and few.

[taraff1]

You can build a solar water heater very inexpensively using the plans at:

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[Escorpio40]

If your company cares so much about being GREEN, make it cheaper and affordable

[wangalishes]

get a better job then!

[shentaisolar]

solar water heater is green energy in our earth, I work for the manufactory of solar water heater in China. Our compnay exported many solar water heaters to others countries. currently, vacuum tube water heaters are welcome.

[Casey2570]

According to the US Department of Energy, Hot water heaters are the number one guzzler of energy. The number two guzzler is your clothes dryer. It is a lot cheaper and very easy to buy a clothesline which gives you a solar clothes dryer for just a few dollars. I am amazed at how few people make this simple change and instead yak about solar panels which are complicated and costly in materials and labor

[freedomwarrior43]

>>"t is a lot cheaper and very easy to buy a clothesline"

Then, when you wear your clothes, you will look like you spent the night in a bottle.

[steviebboy69]

that makes no sence spent the night in a bottle??

here in australia its a traditional fixture to have the old hills hoist aka clothes line.

[louswire]

yeppers, nothing like freeze dried clothes in january

if you don't mind, I'll just hang my clothes on the rack next to my coal stove.

[steviebboy69]

actually i dried my clothes in early july(your winter) and clothes dried mostly. but then i suppose here iot got to about 14.celcius is that mid 50f for our mid winter. in australia.

we use the clothes line unless its rainy.

even overcast but windy works

[YouAdamNazzkl0wn]

5 grand does sound high....

and why would it require the purchase of a new water heater??

[99cachorro]

Sure, no one likes the looks of poly pipe on a roof, but three hundred feet of one inch poly pipe can heat alot of water at once. My pipe has been making hot water for more than ten years and it only cost thirty dollars and was simple to install to the inlet of the electric hot water heater. I guess ive saved a few hundred already.. The roof i put the pipe on is in the back of the house, not noticable from the front and is facing south. The poly makes hot water six months of the year.

[trader0108]

Another method Two points of method: (1) Two waters, separated, zero pressure and house pressure, and (2) Use principle of heat-exchange to take heat from zero pressure to house pressure by running copper metal tubing with house pressure, inside the zero pressure water. The copper metal does a very good job of transferring the heat, and many times better than plastic or rubber. Mixing sand and water in the zero pressure water is probably better. Thin aluminum may contain the zero pressure water.

[Solaraficionado]

That is the worst solar installation I have ever seen!!

[Ooberskidd]

I'm sure there was an increase in air pollution due to the production of that solar unit.

[RovieB]

Only thing I know is those installers need something real low-tech- a rope. Before they drop $2000 on the ground.

[brianfranch]

5.000 dolars for some copper tubes under pexiglass ?? They're taking advantage of the situation.

I have a 12 dollar hose over my roof and works good enough.

[solarisfree]

to bad you didn't install evacuated tubes for 30% of the cost and something which actually works when its cold of cloudy. and they can be used for air conditioning to.

[Clydesdale2045]

Evacs collector areas are 35% smaller. FP's have some loss to the environment but it aint close to 35%! When it's cold, evacs get covered in dew/frost/ice/snow which doesn't evap off like FP's making them suffer in bad weather.

Evacs work better in cold weather when it's 10F or below (they collect 35% less only at 10F or below does their insulation overcome that loss). Evacs last 10-12 years FP's last 30-40 years.

Evacs have their place, usually heating water > 140F.

[DEL673]

Evacs are not at all good for freezing climates. Even the manufacturers admit to that in the fine print. Your looking to replace a few tubes a year at the least with them

[ultcall123]

this was really great to watch

[ultcall123]

hot water from the sun without a carbon footprint...FINALLY someone is showing us solutions!

[ultcall123]

this is really kool!

[chestermarket]

great to see people out there doing something!