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54 pages, grouped by section. Nothing here is more than two clicks from the homepage.

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The plain-text version of the whole site. If you are looking for something specific and the navigation is not helping, it is on this page.

Solar covers

What a solar cover really does to your water temperature, why the published figures range from 4 to 15 degrees, and which cover is worth buying.

Pool heating

Solar, heat pump, gas or propane, priced per million BTU delivered into the water at current US energy prices. The numbers are not close.

Cost to heat

Pool heating cost per degree, per month and per season, computed from current EIA fuel prices with the formula shown every time.

Temperature

Target temperatures from DOE, how much heat a pool loses overnight and what that costs, and the practical ways to stretch the season.

Calculators

Heating time, running cost and cover savings, computed for your pool with the formula and assumptions printed alongside the answer.

About this site

How the numbers are worked out, who writes them, how the site is funded, and the legal pages.

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