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'''Levi Yissar''' was an [[Israel]]i [[engineer]] and [[entrepreneur]]. He built the first prototype Israeli [[solar water heater]].<ref name=CSC>[http://www.californiasolarcenter.org/history_solarthermal.html Solar Evolution - The History of Solar Energy], John Perlin, California Solar Center.</ref> In the 1950s there was a fuel and electricity shortage in the new Israeli state, and the government forbade heating water between 10 p.m. and 6 p.m. As the situation worsened, Yissar proposed that instead of building more electrical generators, homes should switch to solar water heaters. He built a prototype in his home, and in 1953 he started [[NerYah Company]], Israel's first commercial manufacturer of solar water heaters.<ref name=Bach>Petrotyranny by John C. Bacher, [[David Suzuki]], published by Dundurn Press Ltd., 2000; reference is at Page 70 [https://books.google.com/books?id=P7LPZk8NuBgC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=Levi+Yissar&source=web&ots=gvKMZgYqNZ&sig=DKXQT9_oPFwvQrUI8IqB1dBYRWQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA70,M1]</ref> By 1967 around one in twenty [[household]]s heated their water with the sun and 50,000 solar heaters had been sold.<ref name=Bach/> However, cheap oil from Iran and from oil fields captured in the [[Six-Day War]] made Israeli electricity cheaper and the demand for solar heaters to drop.<ref name=CSC/> Following the [[1973 oil crisis|energy crisis in the 1970s]], the Israeli [[Knesset]] passed a law requiring the installation of solar water heaters in all new homes (except high towers with insufficient roof area). |
'''Levi Yissar''' was an [[Israel]]i [[engineer]] and [[entrepreneur]]. He built the first prototype Israeli [[solar water heater]].<ref name=CSC>[http://www.californiasolarcenter.org/history_solarthermal.html Solar Evolution - The History of Solar Energy], John Perlin, California Solar Center.</ref> In the 1950s there was a fuel and electricity shortage in the new Israeli state, and the government forbade heating water between 10 p.m. and 6 p.m. As the situation worsened, Yissar proposed that instead of building more electrical generators, homes should switch to solar water heaters. He built a prototype in his home, and in 1953 he started [[NerYah Company]], Israel's first commercial manufacturer of solar water heaters.<ref name=Bach>Petrotyranny by John C. Bacher, [[David Suzuki]], published by Dundurn Press Ltd., 2000; reference is at Page 70 [https://books.google.com/books?id=P7LPZk8NuBgC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=Levi+Yissar&source=web&ots=gvKMZgYqNZ&sig=DKXQT9_oPFwvQrUI8IqB1dBYRWQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA70,M1]</ref> By 1967 around one in twenty [[household]]s heated their water with the sun and 50,000 solar heaters had been sold.<ref name=Bach/> However, cheap oil from Iran and from oil fields captured in the [[Six-Day War]] made Israeli electricity cheaper and the demand for solar heaters to drop.<ref name=CSC/> Following the [[1973 oil crisis|energy crisis in the 1970s]], the Israeli [[Knesset]] passed a law requiring the installation of solar water heaters in all new homes (except high towers with insufficient roof area). |
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Revision as of 19:56, 16 November 2021
Levi Yissar was an Israeli engineer and entrepreneur. He built the first prototype Israeli solar water heater.[1] In the 1950s there was a fuel and electricity shortage in the new Israeli state, and the government forbade heating water between 10 p.m. and 6 p.m. As the situation worsened, Yissar proposed that instead of building more electrical generators, homes should switch to solar water heaters. He built a prototype in his home, and in 1953 he started NerYah Company, Israel's first commercial manufacturer of solar water heaters.[2] By 1967 around one in twenty households heated their water with the sun and 50,000 solar heaters had been sold.[2] However, cheap oil from Iran and from oil fields captured in the Six-Day War made Israeli electricity cheaper and the demand for solar heaters to drop.[1] Following the energy crisis in the 1970s, the Israeli Knesset passed a law requiring the installation of solar water heaters in all new homes (except high towers with insufficient roof area).
References
- ^ a b Solar Evolution - The History of Solar Energy, John Perlin, California Solar Center.
- ^ a b Petrotyranny by John C. Bacher, David Suzuki, published by Dundurn Press Ltd., 2000; reference is at Page 70 [1]
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