-=> Quoting Terron Cornish to Jim Dunmyer <=-
TC> Yours is the best way to heat. But how about this take a aluminun
  > 3 inch angle frame lets say 6 foot by 3 feet. Sheet the bottom
  > inside with 10 gauge aluminum. Then serpintine it with as much
  > 3/4 inch copper pipe as you can fit in it. Cover this frame with
  > glass. Hook one side to your water supply the other side to your
  > domestic hot water tank and place on the roof of your house. This
  > unit will only make your ht water tank more efficent.
Barely.
Unless you circulate the water, very little heat will get stored. And,
in the winter, you will actually get a net loss!
TC> Me personly I have a Weil Macleans Gold condensating Boiler
  > heating the floor and I have a heat exchanger hooked to the
  > boiler heating the domestic.
Good deal.
TC> Heating the domestic is not as efficent as yours but it costs me
  > 25 dollars canadian to run the boiler because its so efficent.
  > Mind you the unit alone freighted cost me 3 grand but well worth
  > it. what a machine.
$3,000 canadian? Still, that's a lotta mulla. 
... Clinton and friends are men of convictions... and more to come.   
--- Maximus/2 3.01
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