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DamonHD writes "Is it possible for a small urban (London, UK) home to be powered entirely by locally-collected Renewable Energy, both for electricity and for heating?
An important issue is that there is only ~20% of the solar energy per day in winter compared to summer, so one way to make the whole project more likely to work is to store energy from the summertime to the winter.
This article looks at storing enough heat energy out of the ~26GJ used by one house per year for water and space heating to last the winter, 'charged' by solar thermal panels year-round.
And yes somewhere between 1 and 3 dead water-filled milk tankers buried in the the ground could hold the required energy!"
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An important issue is that there is only ~20% of the solar energy per day in winter compared to summer, so one way to make the whole project more likely to work is to store energy from the summertime to the winter.
This article looks at storing enough heat energy out of the ~26GJ used by one house per year for water and space heating to last the winter, 'charged' by solar thermal panels year-round.
And yes somewhere between 1 and 3 dead water-filled milk tankers buried in the the ground could hold the required energy!"
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