I just love this photo. It's from an inhabitat report on Rizhao, the Chinese city which claims that 99% of the households in the central district use solar water heating, as well as nearly a third of the outlying houses. What everybody does when it's cloudy, I don't know.
I was reminded of this while reading this good-news story about education in Tibet which mentions that solar cookers are apparently extremely popular in Tibet - and the list of benefits has a few unexpected items on it. Apparently, yaks produce more milk if they can drink warm water! How lovely.
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Reminds me there's a big mirror farm at the Pentagon. I guess, ostensibly for the same purpose
Great story. I tagged the Inhabitat site. Thanks.
Was that to heat their tea water or to increase the milk production of their yaks?
I kept expecting the story to read that the nearby Rizhao Aeroplane Manufacturing Company had recently gone out of business so enterprising ex-employees had absconded with enough unfinished airplane wings to fashion a lifetime supply of solar collectors and aluminum snow saucers.
Note the handily placed fire extinguisher in the photo, no doubt necessary in case one of the solar collectors gets out of alignment and sets the building on fire.
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