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Glastonbury Solar Showers
2007
First
festival to provide solar powered showers for the masses!
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If
you would like to report on this Glastonbury Solar
Shower Project for TV or Newspaper, please feel free to
contact us and we will gladly help with
photos/background information etc. Please email ivan @
navitron.org.uk with your contact information for more
information. The Solar Shower Project will also be used
at the Big Green Gathering in August 2007
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Several
months ago, Steve Barson of Navitron Ltd approached Michael
Eavis, founder of Glastonbury offering to put on the world's
largest solar-powered shower facility ever attempted, at
Glastonbury. We are aiming to deliver 8000 litres of water per
day, giving a total of 40 000 litres of water, or at least 5000
showers over the course of the festival. The water will be
heated by 16 Navitron vacuum tube panels, consisting of 320
individual vacuum tubes, which should deliver over 1000kWh of
solar energy throughout the event.
This will be the largest
solar powered
mobile shower facility ever attempted, and is 100% funded by
Navitron Ltd. The showers will be unveiled at Glastonbury on
20th June 2007. The showers are expected to provide 8000litres
of hot water each day for showering, with an estimated solar
input of over 1000kWh of solar-powered heat - saving the emission
of over 500kg of CO2 (over 250 000 litres of CO2).
Even with the overcast conditions often experienced at
Glastonbury, we will still expect to
generate copious volumes of hot water, using the advanced vacuum
tube solar technology.
The Glastonbury solar powered showers
are currently being assembled at Navitron's warehouse in Oakham,
in preparation for the event. If you miss Glastonbury, you
should also be able to see the showers at the Big Green
Gathering later in the year.
Shower Cubicles
under construction alongside the giant articulated trailer which
will be used to house over 12 tons of hot water during the
event. The showers cubicles should provide some luxury to
festival showering - good quality cubicles, resin-bonded shower
trays and decking will give the feel of a real home shower. Of
course, the showers will be enclosed at Glastonbury, affording
privacy from all except the Press Helicopters!
Multiple 1000 litre storage vessels are located high up in the
trailer on strong steel supports, providing the water head
necessary for the showers. Solar panels being assembled ready
for installation - the plan is to have two banks of panels one
inside the trailer and the other on the ground alongside the
trailer.
More pictures, 14 June 07
All of the water tanks are now in place. The insulated tanks are
for hot water and the uninsulated tanks are for cold water. The
showers are fitted with mixers.
Close up picture of the shower cubicles being assembled
Solar panels being assembled and connected via stainless steel
high temperature pipework, so that they can be manoeuvred into
position to avoid the need for air-bleeding every time the
facility is assembled/disassembled
Shower units being set up ready for
use at Glastonbury
Glastonbury Links:
Glastonbury Website report on Solar Showers
Photos from the Police Helicopter 2007
Glastonbury 2007 Video Footage (soon...
A Greener
Festival - report on Glastonbury including Solar Showers
Navitron Solar Showers News Coverage:
Gas Installer (Corgi Magazine) July 07
'Solar Showers Star at Glastonbury'
The Independant - 24 June 07
Daily Mail - 2 June 07
ABS-CBN - 23 June 07
AAP (Australia)
- 23 June 07
The Independant - 23 June 07
Q Magazine
The West Australian - 23 June 07
Environmental News Network - 23 June 07
The Province (Canada) - 22 June 07
The Mirror - 22 June 07
RedOrbit - 22 June 07
Actress Archives (New York) - 22 June 07
TVNZ (New
Zealand) - 22 June 07
Stuff (New
Zealand) - 22 June 07
Reuters Canada - 22 June 07
ABC News - 22 June 07
Tiscali News - 22 June 07
Reuters - 22June 07
Yahoo News
- 22June 07
Washington Post - 22June 07
New
Scotsman -21 June 07
Reuters - 21June 07
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