So he invested $4,600 in a solar pool heating system.
A solar pool heating system usually... provides a payback of between 1.5 and 7 years, depending on your local fuel costs.
Take a pipe about 2 1⁄2 feet (0.8 m) long, 2 inches (5.1 cm) in diameter(something like the pipe left over from a swimming pool heating system, but any water-safe plastic pipe from your local plumbing shop will do).
There were 33,000 solar pool heating systems installed nationwide in 2006, compared to 24,000 in 2002.
The technology has remained essentially unchanged since 1976, said Don Harter, who started building solar pool heating systems that year at Harter Industries in Matawan, N.J.
Bob Griffin, owner of SolarSwim Pool Heating Systems in Somerset, N.J., said that when the panels are warmer than the pool water, the system, which is regulated by a thermostat, turns on automatically.
Subsequently, active systems are described, which include direct circulation systems, indirect water-heating systems, air water-heating systems, heat pump systems and pool heating systems, which include the analysis of various heat losses like evaporation, radiation, convection heat losses, make-up water load, and solar radiation-heat gain.
A Paris swimming pool has inaugurated a heating system using warmth recovered from sewers in an attempt to cut costs and reduce carbon emissions.
If the hotel has a pool and/or hot tub, install a solar water heating system and use pool and hot tub covers when the pool area is closed.
(Why isn't the new Siri Fort swimming pool open, anyway? Oh, the heating system failed. Whatever happened to the big Yamuna pool? Oh, it's been empty and completely unused for months).
A bill introduced in the New Jersey Legislature in January by Senator Robert W. Singer would require customers who use fossil fuels to heat a pool to also install a solar heating system with collector panels equal to 25percentt of the pool's surface area.
