Active Solar Heating

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Active Solar Heating

• By Farhan Mahmood

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• What is it?
• Advantages of solar heating
• Active Solar Heating in Canada

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What is it?

• Amplifies solar power
• Utilizes specially designed mechanical systems
• Uses a solar collector as the main component
• Two types of systems
• Air or liquid

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Advantages of Solar Heating

• Environmentally friendly
• Cost effective
• Available everywhere!

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Active Solar Heating In Canada

• The Renewable Energy Deployment Initiative
  (REDI)
• announced by Natural Resources Canada in
  December 1997
• 9 year, 51 million program
• Supported the active solar thermal industry from
  2000-2002

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Sources

• http//www.eere.energy.gov/solar/sh_basics.html
• http//www2.nrcan.gc.ca/es/erb/erb/english/View.as
  p?x642oid828
• http//www.solarenergysociety.ca/2003/active.asp
• http//bathrooms.bobvila.com/Article/743.html