thomps: The senior says the group at first planned to seek a state grant for the project but decided against it after learning that would require a significant amount of lost autonomy.

subby must be a purdue grad...

Dammit. Beat me to it.

RexTalionis: A glass box frame, pipes with aluminum fins and a gigantic mirror should just about cover it.

The rest of that $45K can be used for a fine glass of scotch to sip after a good day's work. Oh, wait, these are college students. A fine keg of Yuenling to chug, then.

College students only drink crap like Coors or Bud Light.

Reading comprehension fail.

bayoubruce: WTF My Dad was doing this with solar panels on the roof of the family home in the mid 70s.

Be patient; it's Indiana. If another $45k gets them as far as learning language, I'm all for it.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: College students only drink crap like Coors or Bud Light.

rebelyell2006: Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: College students only drink crap like Coors or Bud Light.

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I drink Sam Adams mainly. I dislike Coors and Bud Light

Cutting edge tech under development. This should make boiling bathwater on a coal fired cook stove obsolete in no time flat!

bayoubruce: WTF My Dad was doing this with solar panels on the roof of the family home in the mid 70s.

Did you read the article? Because it's to install a commercial system. (If they had gone forward seeking the funds). Not to do research on it.

And I doubt there is comparable drinking to say a college school given this:
Goshen College, (also known as Goshen or GC) is a private Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana, USA with an enrollment of around 1,000 students. The college is accredited by North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Goshen College was founded in 1894 as the Elkhart Institute, and is affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. Goshen College maintains a distinctive Christian Mennonite environment, but admits students regardless of race or religion. U.S. News and World Reports ranks Goshen as a third-tier liberal arts college.

/From NE Indiana
//Numerous teachers went to Goshen.

RexTalionis: A glass box frame, pipes with aluminum fins and a gigantic mirror should just about cover it.

The rest of that $45K can be used for a fine glass of scotch to sip after a good day's work. Oh, wait, these are college students. A fine keg of Yuenling to chug, then.

We did it with paired lines of copper water line, coiled in several loops in a 15' square frame then laid a rather expensive sheet of glass over that. The pipes were painted flat black, and the plywood was layered over with this shiny hard foam core insulation material and we made little standoff blocks out of Legos to keep the pipe about an inch off the foam. The whole thing sat on the roof and had enough capacity for about a 15 minute shower with water that was almost too hot. Reheat time took about half an hour after that.

Did this back in the early 80's. The copper line cost about $40, the frame and 1" plywood cost about $20, the foam core was about $4, and the glass cost about $400 at the time. You could make coffee with the water straight out of the tap. Worked pretty well, even in winter.

But that was in a little valley in Mendocino county. Sunshine all the time except for the late winter and spring when we didn't live there anyway. Three hours of direct sunlight would be enough.

thomps: The senior says the group at first planned to seek a state grant for the project but decided against it after learning that would require a significant amount of lost autonomy.

subby must be a purdue grad...

you mean a... (removes sun glasses dramatically)... boiler maker
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Donnchadha: CapnBlues: And did you guys mean Yuengling? I didn't know you could get it that far west.

You can buy it in Ohio now -- it's big news.

Yeah, I don't have to drive 45 mins and find a damn "distributor" in PA to get good "premium" beer, now I just have to go down to the gas station!.

CapnBlues: The most popular "beer" at Penn State is Natty Light. That and Vladimir Vodka are the two most popular alcohols in that town. That ought to tell you something about the state of beer in college towns.

Natty Light is the popular cheap beer at Ohio State as well, at least it was 5 years ago.

All this beer snob talk, was recently initiated into a business fraternity (less cool I know, but I don't really party). Well we were going to celebrate that night with around 300 of us, so I was like I'll pick up some beer.

Now, I'm not normally at parties. So I bought keystone as it was the cheapest per price point...

Yeah, got (lovingly) mocked about being back in High School ect ect.

The keystone was still there in the morning, untouched.

Crazy Mennonites.

sirgrim: RexTalionis: A glass box frame, pipes with aluminum fins and a gigantic mirror should just about cover it.

The rest of that $45K can be used for a fine glass of scotch to sip after a good day's work. Oh, wait, these are college students. A fine keg of Yuenling to chug, then.

I'm thinking some big black trash bags and $44.93k in beer. Make water and clean up after one epic shower party. Double-win.

Beer in the shower, a highly under rated activity. Goes well with something dark.

There are benefits to being a grad student in Montana, Butte especially. The bars are cheap an the breweries are plentiful. At $7 a refill, you could buy a lot of growlers at the Quarry. Then again, I am in Butte.

/Butt