In this study, the feasibility of installing low cost alternative solar heaters in the city of Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, was analyzed. Its main focus is on the heating of water for residential swimming pools, ...

The solar energy is a renewable source that has a great potential for conversion into thermal energy or for generation of electric power through photovoltaic panels in Brazil. Concerns about environmental impacts and the ...

This work is intended to encourage the use of solar heaters pet bottle, for it are presented the economic and environmental advantages generated by the use of this equipment. Currently the cost difference between the pet ...

Solar heaters are an appropriate technology in tropical and sub-tropical climates to heat bath water by solar energy. Low-cost solar heaters meet the demand of low-income rural communities which currently do not have access ...

This work presents a study how to spread a low-cost technology for water heating using solar energy, focusing on low-income communities. Discusses how the use of electric showers is a major consumer of electricity in a ...