Novel emission-free heating, CO2-free
Inventor runs a fully working emission-free heating system
For two years, a hobby inventor in Selbach in Saarland has been running a fully working heating system that can also be visited. The man is over 80 and nobody is interested in his invention – in principle it is a water tank with a heating element, surrounded by a second tank containing thermal oil.
The electricity comes from the photovoltaic system, which he wanted to supplement with a wind turbine in winter. Thanks to its very good insulation, the heating is quite economical. With old oil or gas heating systems, the pipework, radiators etc. could stay as they are – only the burner would have to be replaced by the “double boiler”. See the article on msn.com (German) and the patent specification (German).
Mr Thomé is very open and wants his invention to live on – I spoke to him only recently. I expressly stress that this is Mr Thomé’s invention and I only want to help him. In winter he has so far still needed additional electricity for heating (the wind turbine is missing).
Article on eFahrer.de / chip.de
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It would of course be good if this simple heating system could be coupled with a novel energy source. Innovations always have a hard time when a lot of money is being made with relatively old technology – the heating engineers Mr Thomé knows have all refused to add something like this to their range, and his “old” heating engineer has since retired and sold the business.
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