Africa - Hot Water For All - No Electricity Needed

[Harvey]

I said that I would post my TIRED Hot Water System so here it is.

There's an interesting story how I built the first TIRED system. Back
in the 1980's I volunteered to go to Africa because they had a
Typhoid epidemic and they needed doctors to help out in the outlining
villages. One of the villages we went to had very little wood for
cooking, what little wood they did have they used for their huts. We
needed hot water for bathing and treating the sick but wood and other
fuel was hard to come by.

On the way to several other villages I noticed a lot of old tires
along side the road. I thought as a last resort we could cutup the
tires and use them for fuel. We stopped to load some of the tires on
our old truck we were using and I noticed that one of the tires had
some rain water in it from the night before. It doesn't rain that
much in that part of Africa so I was surprised when I found water in
a tire that was so hot it burned my hand. This gave me an idea so we
loaded all the tires we could on the truck and took them to the
village. We also found some old cars that had been striped and burned
so we took the hoods off two of the cars. That night we hammered and
chiseled two pieces of round sheet metal out of the two hoods to fit
inside one of the tires. We then melted one of the badly damaged
tires and used it to glue the piece of sheet metal in one of the
tires and to stack the tires on top of each other and glue them
together. We used the other hood to cover our home made water tank.
After the hot rubber cooled we had some of the men in the village
haul water and fill my new home made tank. I was surprised that we
had no leaks, one of our crew said that God must be looking after us.
Before the end of the next day we had plenty of hot water, in fact it
was too hot, we had to keep adding cool water. All together we built
four more TIRED systems before I left Africa and not one of them
leaked.

You must keep in mind that when you build your TIRED system it must
be able to hold water pressure but that shouldn't be a problem since
you have power tools and better building material. You will have to
use stainless or galvanized bolts, nuts, washers and good quality
rubber glue. The plate to seal the top and bottom is the hardest part
of the project. I used thin galvanized sheet metal and glued it to
some ¾ plywood that I had laying around.

When I got back to the Philippines I built my first pressurized TIRED
to preheat the water before going to the hot water tank and our
electric hot water heater almost never goes on. I also set the
thermostat to 100 and that helps save on power as well.

In over 20 years I only had one leak and I fixed it with a tubeless
tire patch.

Good luck, if you need help I'm just a post away. Don't be afraid to
use your own imagination and post the results, if it's better than
mine I'll build a new one.

Ben

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[Harvey]

Tired

The original post by Dr. Schwartz can be accessed by NARF members here:
Yahoo! Groups

And the original drawing found here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/noahsa...unt=20&dir=asc

The Acronym for TIRED has already been specified by Dr. Schwartz, as shown in the drawing - But it could be remembered as well by:
T hermal
I nfra
R ed
E nergy
D evice

Another variant of this design could use a coil of copper tubing unraveled in the cavity which could then be connected to a clean water source. The clean water would never come in contact with the TIRED water and energy would be exchanged through the copper.

Please keep in mind that Dr. Schwartz actually constructed these and put them into use, so it is a proven process. At the very least it can be used to preheat the water supply feeding a conventional heater or geyser.

As far as aesthetics go, the stack could be housed in a greenhouse type box that allows light in but does not let IR escape (car windshields are notorious for causing this transformation - trapping heat inside the car). With a little imagination, a person could transform typical things found at a junk yard into a usable energy saving device.

Cheers

[Stealth]

good idea

I built a solar heater that I found at Mother Earth News. It consists of a plywood bottom, and a 45% plywood riser.Altogether 4'long flat,4' long tilted.With plywood sides 12"" high, and same on ends.Covered all this with a waterproof sealer.Used copper tubing coiled up inside with ends exposed to attach to outside piping. Filled with water and tea(to darken the water), Covered with glass and faced toward the Southern sun. It will work summer or winter for heating and water heating. Good Luck. stealth

[bmlobo]

hello everybody, do you have a minute

Hi Everybody, Can you help me out and take a look at a blog site that I am working on. It is to do with Pulse motors and magnetic coils, Bedini Motors, and ideas on making systems work better. If you could take a moment and link to my site and comment I would greatly appreciate your input.



PULSE MOTOR, FREE ENERGY & OVER UNITY

Thank you all and take care.

Please comment

[Aromaz]

Similar system

In South Africa many farmers started to use PVC plastic tubes on their roofs since 1970's as solar water heater. Even in cold winter the water is still hot.
Lengths of black PVC pipe (same as used in underground irrigation) are connected (T-pieces) to a main line top and bottom, this whole contraption is placed on a slanting rooftop. Cooler water at bottom manifold connects to lower end of reservoir, hot water at top manifold to top of tank.

Works excellent through day, but not much hot water left in morning for early shower!

[Harvey]

Thermal Conductivity may play a role there.

This Chart shows PVC at about 0.19 W/mK while the chart at Wikipedia shows Rubber at about 0.16 W/mK so they are not that far apart actually. Some black plastic pipe is actually ABS pipe and this chart shows ABS to have a thermal conductivity at about 1.3 (Btu in /h ft2 °F))
1 Btu/(ft h °F) = 1.731 W/(m K)

At any rate, the point is that the more thermally conductive a material the easier it is for it to lose energy to the environment. Trapped air is one of the best thermal insulators we can use at 0.024 W/mK. So enclosing the material in a blanket of trapped air while still allowing the high energy UV to enter the chamber you get a good combination.

So the UV goes in, gets converted to IR and cannot get out so the energy is absorbed by the water where it is well insulated.

[everwiser]

Build-It-Solar Blog

BuildItSolar: Solar energy projects for Do It Yourselfers to save money and reduce pollution

[nvisser]

2L Coke bottles geyser

How to make a difference - Cliimate Change and energy - How to make a solar water heater from plastic bottles - The Ecologist

The Tired systems still look like the easiest one.

[Stealth]

These are some excellent sites that everyone could make use of. Solar is free, after the initial cost of material and labor. Using the sun,especially in the winter, when heat and electricity are at a premium is a wise energy saving and money saving project to build. Good Luck with all your projects. stealth

[Aromaz]

Complications

Off course there is a major complication in large parts of Africa:

To make hot water - you need to have water . . .
In most locations of Africa you always have either too much or nothing;
though the too much is seldom, short duration and only due to major floods.

[ashtweth]

Hi Aromaz, do you have 13GCM of absolute humidity in AFRICA? If you do we can make it rain there, if you dont have it in the drought area. We can set up stations to move the moisture around

Here is an Example. Here is the Murray river where there is Drought in Australia
New South Wales Weather Observation Stations
Look for IVANHOE on the map->then click on it to find the relative humidity and temperature readings.

Take BOTH FIGURES

Compare BOTH those figures here in this chart for the absolute humidity figure
Climate/humidity table

For example if its 20C and 80% or 90% relative humidity.
We can make it rain.
Drought relief
(refresh)

You need 13 GCM to move moisture around using the etheric or orgone technology, since its the primary energy, i doubt any other device will work under 13GCM, in fact all as you are doing is moving moisture if is not there to move, forget it. Hence why you can make it rain in a desert, you can move moisture into a desert tho, but need to START at the vapor trails (13GCM of absolute humidity)

Reich , McCullough(Reich assistant) and TJC said this. So we need to find where 13GCM is and move it around into the MURRAY/AFRICA area -Trevor constable did it that way.

Move it from one area with 3 OR MORE STATIONS.
PROVEN Pincer 2

BTW

THANKS HARVEY!

[Aromaz]

Hi Aromaz, do you have 13GCM of absolute humidity in AFRICA? [/U][/B]

Nope, I do not have any data; been out of Africa for exactly 10 years now. Should be available on web somewhere. UNISA in Pretoria did intense studies in Chad, Senegal, Ethiopia, Namibia and Botswana around 1990 to 1993 for purpose of rain making.

However, in Somaliland we traveled in very dry areas (Eastern Sahara) and at night we spread a plastic tarp over 4x4 meter with rock in middle, condensing water when night gets cold and next day will have some 500ml very sweet clean water. Cars were always damp in morning.

Clouds are there, almost all the time. Rainmaking can work; but who will pay? You are talking of about 22 million sq/km of dry continent (twice that of the total USA). With average population density of 90 people per sq/km the results does not justify the expenses.

Disturbing, sober, sad and a pity. YET; Africa is still the mineral richest continent in the world.

[nvisser]

I am sure that Trevor constable devices that Ash showed on the Panecea videos are not expensive and difficult to build.
What we need is some responsible persons to run and control the devices.

[Harvey]

Thanks to All

Yes - the need for water is an important factor.

I do have a project on the drawing board that I had hoped to begin this year along with the support of Noah's Ark Research Foundation that will present new ways to bring fluid water to arid and desert climate regions. Personally, I am yet to visit a dry climate region where water did not condense on the outside of my glass of Iced Tea. The fact is, even the very dry air still has some water vapor in it and my project intends to provide a means for extracting that in remote areas where no power is available.

The reality is that it is one thing to research a matter and quite another to develop it. Development almost always requires funding and this project is no exception. If all goes well, hopefully we will have some good news to share in 2011.

But for now, those areas that do have water available can possibly benefit from the posts here.

[Aromaz]

Personally, I am yet to visit a dry climate region where water did not condense on the outside of my glass of Iced Tea.

There I can point the direction to you. Try the Namib desert in South Western Africa. But not next to beach, go inland a few kilometers.

I have not been here, but I believe the TaklaMakan in Western China is same;
anyway there the temperature is so low you ice tea might freeze!

Namib:
At 25 deg 46 min South ; 17deg 04 East there are two very strange (espcially for the Namib) dense clouds;
For those interested, one of the most stunning meteor craters in the world is Brukkaros: 25:52S and 17:46 E