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<P>Nancy</P>
<P>Solar cell manufacturing is probably what you are referring to in terms of pollution. Solar cells are not used with solar hot water heaters, rather a grid of pipes in a black box with a glass cover which faces the sun. The sun heats the black box which in turn heats the pipes which in turn heats the water (water and antifreeze) in the pipes which is fed through a heat exchanger into your conventional hot water heater. This way the water is already heated when it enters the conventional hot water heater so no additional heating is necessary. On cloudy days you don't get much heat from the "black box" so the conventional hot water heater takes over.</P>
<P>Bruce<BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Nancy Mooney <NBMOONEY1@YAHOO.COM><BR>Sent: Dec 5, 2007 7:53 AM <BR>To: TownTalk@riverdale-park.org <BR>Subject: [RP TownTalk] Solar/Advertisements/Dogs <BR><BR>Howdy Neighbors:<BR><BR>I would like to chime in that I do not appreciate getting advertisements on this list serve. If everyone on this list advertised their kids recitals, car washes, bake sales, candy sales, etc. etc. it would be packed. There are many ways to find out what is going on. I don't believe that advertising yoga classes is the purpose of this forum. <BR><BR>I read a blurb somewhere, I think in Smithsonian, that solar panels are a very highly polluting industry. Does anyone know about that? I'd love to use solar for my water heater! But when I read that it gave me pause. Perhaps in the long run, the reduction in pollution caused by the production of energy is less than the pollution caused by the manufacture of the solar panel? I don't know....perhaps I just need to take cold showers - YIKES!! I'm curious about what other's know about this.<BR><BR>If someone signs an agreement that, once they adopt a dog they won't give it to another person but will instead return it, isn't that a binding agreement? Does anyone know the purpose of that clause? It doesn't seem reasonable at first glance. I know that, years ago when I worked for th SPCA we checked out homes before allowing them to adopt a dog. Perhaps this is the county's way of trying to be sure the dog doesn't get passed on to an unsuitable person? Didn't a celeb get into trouble recently over this issue? All that said, best of luck with the dog. I know when I was fostering a kitten in October, I had to keep believing that the right home was out there for it, somewhere. Took much longer than I ever wanted it to. But it did work out eventually. I know it will for this pooch, too.<BR><BR>Let it snow let it snow let it snow!!<BR><BR>Nancy Mooney<BR>
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