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Solar Heating for Buildings and Water

Ways of using sunlight directly to heat water and buildings, including solar water heaters and the Trombe wall. A technology belongs here when its cited article describes solar heating of water or space. Both rely on sunlight alone, one through a collector that heats a stream of water and the other through a thick wall that absorbs and slowly releases the warmth of the sun. A technology is placed here by the solar heating method the cited article describes.

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Wikipedia: Solar water heating
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    Solar water heating (SWH) is heating water by sunlight, using a solar thermal collector.
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    Solar water heating (SWH) is heating water by sunlight, using a solar thermal collector.
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Wikipedia: Trombe wall
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A Trombe wall is a massive equator-facing wall that is painted a dark color in order to absorb thermal energy from incident sunlight and covered with a glass on the outside with an insulating air-gap between the wall and the glaze.
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Wikipedia: Solar chimney
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A solar chimney, often referred to as a thermal chimney, is a way of improving the natural ventilation of buildings by using convection of air heated by passive solar energy.
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