Engine heat is often used in  yachts for heating shower and galley water.
I am surprised someone who's a Westie-gadget tinker er has not done one for
vans.  You could pull into camp and have a hot shower waiting, even on
cloudy days or just turn on the motor for maybe 10 minutes..
  Don Hanson

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> cool,
> is it baffled to prevent slosh inside ?
>
> next you start thinking of how to get more surface area  exposed to the sun
> etc.
>
> thinking of less sunny days ..
> I haven't seen much in the way of a heater circuit heat exchange for on
> board hot water.
>
> I also have a heat exchanger off a tdi engine ..
> it's an EGR cooler really,
> coolant runs through many tubes in it, and exhaust flows through it too
> ....
> cooling the exhaust before it's introduced into the engine for EGR.,
> so can't see why that can't be used to heat shower water.
>
> Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BenT Syncro" <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 5:14 PM
> Subject: Re: novel solar shower spotted
>
>
> Here's the unbroken link:
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>>
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>> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=431812&sid=4e2da8cfea50e637aed82cf668a0b313
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>> BenT
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>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>> On the samba
>>> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?
>>> t=431812&sid=4e2da8cfea50e637aed82cf668a0b313
>>>
>>> It has its merits.
>>>
>>> alistair
>>>
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