This article is part 1 of Conserve Energy and Heat Your Swimming Pool with Solar Energy.
Swimming pools provide a great way to exercise and beat the summer heat. Building and maintaining a pool, however, also means relatively high costs added to your household’s budget. There are several ways that you can reduce operating and [...]
This article is part 2 of Conserve Energy and Heat Your Swimming Pool with Solar Energy.
Almost all of a pool’s heat loss—about 95 percent—occurs at the surface, mostly through evaporation to the air and radiation to the sky. A pool cover is an effective means to keep heat (and water) in a pool by [...]
This article is part 3 of Conserve Energy and Heat Your Swimming Pool with Solar Energy.
If you are selecting a pool heater, ask for as energy-efficient model as you can afford. Several heat pump manufacturers make retrofit desuperheater coils for pool heating, and several make heat pumps for pool heating. These may be cost [...]
