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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,sci.environment,talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Request: info on desalination and solar energy
- Message-ID: <11419@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:56:12 GMT
- References: <BxoxI6.Jqv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov17.183658.29104@impmh.uucp> <1992Nov18.140710.8710@mlb.semi.harris.com> <1992Nov18.153706.7862@nmt.edu>
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- In <1992Nov18.153706.7862@nmt.edu> houle@nmt.edu (Paul Houle) writes:
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- |> The low-tech designs that I've seen for solar water desalination
- |>mostly use a tent-like structure made out of polyethylene sheet (which is a
- |>really good material if you want to play with solar thermal technology on the
- |>cheap. My father built a solar "greenhouse" addition to the house one year
- |>using wood and poly sheet that he had laying around, and with the addition
- |>of a fan, it could keep most of the house at 80 centigrade during the day.)
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- Are you sure about that temperature. At 80 degrees C, you would get heat stroke
- in just a couple of hours. Also what was the outside temperature?
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- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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