Global thermal heat requirements are often underappreciated, even though they comprise about 50% of energy needs – two to three times more than electrical.
According to the EU Commission, 50% of the EU’s annual energy consumption is for thermal energy.
From Buildings to industrial food processing; agriculture, manufacturing and production processes; all use energy to make heat. Solar can contribute to these Process Applications.
Not to mention, the opportunities for Solar Thermal applications to process polluted and salty water.
Having a Swimming Pool allows for a larger Solar Thermal Array to be installed.
If a Solar thermal Array is sized to provide Space Heating in winter, the Excess thermal Energy during non-Space Heating periods can be used to heat the Swimming pool.
There are significant advantages (Financial and ability to use RE Solutions) from using lower temperature Space heating, such as underfloor Radiant heating.
Fossil fuel Boilers burn at a high temperature, which is a waste of energy when EU wide Building Projects have improved Energy efficiency from better Façades and Thermal Insulation.
The use of Heat Pumps (Geothermal & Air Source) have become Mainstream. It is an Energy efficient Technology using electricity to power a refrigeration Compressor, to upgrade the temperature to enable transfer heat (and cooling) energy.
Solar thermal energy can provide additional thermal input to the Heat Pump Application, allowing a reduction of electricity usage, with the Utility Grid utilising Fossil Fuel Generation.
With the ambient temperature steadily getting warmer on average, Extreme weather events will start increasing due this increased thermal Energy. Which are dangerous when reaching above our body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius.
Solar Thermal Applications can provide different Cooling Solutions. Seems strange that Chilled temperature water (15C) can be produced from Solar heated water (90C).
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