This Is Renewable Energy, Thermal kettle Style.
This photo turned up on a Russian site that my wife uses to keep in touch with her friends.
This Is Renewable Energy,Thermal kettle Style.
Wow, a Thermal Kettle.
This photo turned up on a Russian site that my wife uses to keep in touch with her friends.
It looks to be out in the Russian steppes, or maybe Uzbekistan, but certainly somewhere very remote, where the people probably have never heard about solar energy, but they do know that there is a lot of heat in that sun, and that that heat can certainly be used to boil a kettle. The kettle is essentially being used as a thermal oven to heat the water, what could be more simple than that?
If this guy had the materials, he could very possibly build a quite serviceable thermal heating system for his house, just by using the method he is using there, so long as the sun is shining.
So, 10/10 for initiative, that man.
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