Solar Heating Tubes: The Ideal Solar Energy System
August 3, 2010
In the current financial and political environment, building owners are struggling to conform to the ever changing government regulations and the demands of tenants. Searching for more environmentally conscious ways of supplying energy to your buildings can present is not easy.
We’ve all heard about wind technology, and the great advances that are being made in that field, but you might not have heard about solar heating tubes: the alternative green energy source. There is no better, or more untapped, source of renewable energy than the sun. Every day, 365 days per year The sun gives us energy in the form of light and heat throughout the year. However most of the energy it supplies goes to waste, while we continue to burn our way through the planets limited supply of fossil fuels. The situation is only going to get worse for those who continue to use fossil fuels, so it’s time to embrace an environmentally favorable approach to supplying our energy needs, while the government is offering financial incentives.
Using solar heating tubes as an alternate form of green energy can have several advantages, for both property owners and their tenants. Even if solar power is used only to heat the buildings water the savings can be enormous, depending on how much hot water the building uses. Of course, buildings with differing purposes use different quantities of warm water, but hot water is used for one reason or another in more or less every building, whether it’s tenants taking showers, doing their laundry, washing dishes, or even just washing their hands. Numerous homes also employ central heating systems, which use coils of heated water beneath the flooring to heat the rooms. If your buildings are heated this way, you’ll be able to save a lot of money by cutting deep into your oil, gas, and electrical use for heating your buildings.
Solar heating tubes represent a new approach to solar energy and are much more efficient than standard solar panels. In places like New York solar energy is typically not the best way to harness green energy as the climate is so changeable. However, solar heating tubes will continue to be effective even in the winter months. The shape of the solar heating tubes allows the receiving unit to harvest the sun’s energy during all daylight hours, because the sun’s rays will reach the surface of the cylinder during all daylight hours, as opposed to flat solar panels, which only produce power when the sun is shining directly onto their flat surface. Coupled with the fact that the energy is then stored inside copper rods and surrounded by a vacuum sealed tube, which allows very little of the energy to escape. In fact the tubes are so well insulated that the outside of the tubes are usually cool while the temperature of the rods storing the solar power can reach well over 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The combination of these two factors enables landlords to use solar energy in climates where it was once though to be impractical, such as those with much cloudy weather and colder climates. If you are a landlord in New York green energy is now within your grasp.
Solar heating tubes are one green energy system that you would be a fool not to be on the cutting edge of. Using the alternative green technology, the solar heating tube, will not only reduce your carbon footprint and protect the o-zone, it also saves you a lot of money in the long run. When you look at it that way, it’s pretty hard to think of a good reason not to use solar heating tubes.
Craig Axelrod is a principal for Emmy Energy, a <A href=”http://www.emmyenergy.com/index.cfm”>NY solar energy</a> operation delivering <A href=”http://www.emmyenergy.com/green-energy-products/solar-heating-tubes.cfm”>solar heating tubes</a> <A href=”http://www.emmyenergy.com/green-energy-products/solar-electric-panels.cfm”>solar energy systems</a> & clean systems in the North East.
