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Objectives

By the end of the Solar Hot Water Installation and Design Principles module, students will understand:

  1. How to do a solar site assessment
  2. How a solar hot water system operates
  3. How to describe and use some of the tools of the trade
  4. How to solder copper fitting and plumbing components

Goals

The following are some of the main goals for the Solar Hot Water Installation and Design Principles module.

Concepts

By the end of the Solar Hot Water Installation and Design Principles module, students will understand the following concepts (among others):

Vocabulary and units

By the end of the Solar Hot Water Installation and Design Principles module, students will be able to confidently use the following vocabulary and/or units (among others):

Calculations

By the end of the Solar Hot Water Installation and Design Principles module, students will be able to do the following calculations (among others):

How to

By the end of the Solar Hot Water Installation and Design Principles module, students will be comfortable doing the following (among others):

Field trips

By the end of the Solar Hot Water Installation and Design Principles module, students will be have gone on the following field trips (possibly among others):

Page data
Part of Northern California Green Building Pre-Apprenticeship Program
Keywords solar hot water, solar energy, thermal energy
Authors Lonny
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Location Humboldt County, California
Language English (en)
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Created January 29, 2011 by Lonny Grafman
Last edit September 16, 2026 by Felipe Schenone
Cite as Lonny (2011–2026). "Green Building/Solar Hot Water Installation and Design Principles". Appropedia. Retrieved September 28, 2026.
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