Strictly speaking, SHW technology also referes to industrial applications where solar concentrators and parabolic reflectors are used (here, water is converted to steam).
However, the normal usage of "SHW" is firmly oriented towards the technology where water is not heated to steam and this is the household or light industrial context where water is heated some 20-50 degrees C. My proposal is that the page on THERMAL COLLECTOR is expanded to include and emphasise the commercial applications of thermal collectors (there are a few aspects that have not been dealt with adequately, e.g the commercial application of evacuated tubes and progress in the commercial application of flat panels), whereas the household usage of these collectors remain in the page with SOLAR HOT WATER.
The strongest argument to keep it separate is probably because the article on Solar water heating is becoming quite long (I expect about 90-100kbytes after I have added some parts I am working on).
Jojalozzo (talk) 22:40, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply] I removed the original text for this section which was copied verbatim from the ICAX web site.
Here are two links to web pages with info on this topic that someone might use to create a section with original text that does not mention particular commercial products or plagiarize copyrighted material: http://www.ooms.nl/english/pages/divisie_handel/road_energy_system.html http://www.icax.co.uk/asphalt_solar_collector.html Joja lozzo 20:16, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply] I copied the following discussion from User talk:Knowm (and indented it to improve readability): This technology is very interesting and deserves support (just not here at this point in time).
I don't know if I'm intruding on a religious war on evacuated-tube versus flat-panel, but I inserted the correct references for the source of that graph.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bseegmiller (talk • contribs) 17:03, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply] What are double-walled evacuated tubes called, that are open on both ends?
-- DMahalko (talk) 11:43, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply] New content on ICS and evacuated flat panels has no sources and appears to be OR.
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