Popuptoaster
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I have been thinking about experimenting with water cooling my solar panels by running coolant pipes behind the panels, I reckon if I can lower the temperature enough tto increase the panels efficiency to cover the "cost" of powering a pump then i'm getting free warmed water and it might even be possible to get a net gain over that from the panels.
I don't really have the space to add separate solar water heating so thought this might be a good compromise? I wondered if anyone had seen anything done along these lines? I have seen some commercial applications where they spray the panels with water and cool by evaporation but that strikes me as just being wasteful.
I don't really have the space to add separate solar water heating so thought this might be a good compromise? I wondered if anyone had seen anything done along these lines? I have seen some commercial applications where they spray the panels with water and cool by evaporation but that strikes me as just being wasteful.
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