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just put the water under the sun? why would anyone use solar panels to heat water. you're losing like 90% the sun's energy in trying to capture it as electricity.
That's exactly what these solar panels were. They didn't produce electricity at all. They simply used the solar energy to heat liquid being ran through pipes.