Details are still rolling in but Toon, left me this interesting comment on my solar thermal panel project post.
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Hi,

Thanks for the nice idea of using a fridge radiator in a solar collector!

I am at the moment in a small city in Peru, Abancay, where I am helping to build a new school. We like to work as ecological as possible, but there is of course not much money.

Therefor, I used your idea to build a small demonstrator of a solar collector. The result can be seen in these pictures:

Here, everybody is used to taking showers with cold water, brrr! It would be ideal if we can include a simple solar collector in the school construction plans.

As you can see in the pictures, everything was build from costless material. Total bill: zero nuevos soles! The glass plate was a little small, but I found some bubble wrap to solve that.

In the future, I also would like to make it thermosyphoning. But I think the tubes are a bit narrow for that…

Greetings,
Toon

PS: Comments are welcome!

The best part, Pictures! It is looking pretty awesome!

more pictures below the fold.