Gregory's Server@neauoire You know what would be really cool? Imagine having a heat pipe transporting the energy inside your boat and keeping the solar collector on top. 1 m2 of pipes could make about 0.5-1 kW so becoming, in principle, equal to a standard electric oven. Being 200-250C the maximum temperature you can reach with standard heat pipes, it's not totally impossible to build it! ;-)
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 @neauoire yeah, doing that kind of experiments on a boat is not ideal... I'm thinking about land-based solar collectors that are used just to heat water, but if you don't use enough water you lose a lot of energy. That alone makes me always prefer installing (more) PV panels that are not limited to heating. But in this case you could use the system to cook too and in some scenarios it could be advantageous, especially in areas with no electric grid. |
@zabow we were discussing something like it yesterday! Doing it safely is the tricky right, if we get capsized and then there's shards of glass everywhere it could get dicey