subject: Solar Heating Tubes: The Other Green Energy [print this page] In the modern financial and political climate, landlords are struggling to adhere to government regulations and tenant demands. Searching for more environmentally conscious ways to heat our buildings can be is not easy.
There's been a lot of talk lately about the many benefits of wind technology, but permit me to introduce you to solar heating tubes: the alternative green energy source. There is no better, or more untapped, source of green energy than the sun. Every day, 365 days per year in most environments, the sun gives us several hours of ambient heat. But most of this energy goes unused, while we continue to use polluting and rapidly disappearing fossil fuels. The situation will only get worse for those who continue to burn fossil fuels, and the time to use solar energy to power our homes is now, while the governments of many states and countries are offering financial incentives.
Using solar heating tubes to heat a building offers several benefits, for both building owners and tenants. Depending on the amount of hot water is used in the building, the savings can be quite large, even if solar power is only used to heat the buildings water. Naturally, buildings with differing purposes use massively different amounts of hot water, but very few buildings use no hot water at all, whether it is for tenants taking baths, doing their laundry, washing dishes, or even just washing their hands. Most properties also use central heating systems, which use coils of heated water underneath the floor boards to heat the rooms. If this is the case with your buildings, 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 employ the latest green technology to make optimal use of the suns rays. The cylindrical shape of the receptors allows the receiving unit to collect the sun's energy during all daylight hours, as the suns rays will be striking the surface of the cylinder from almost any angle, as opposed to flat solar panels, which only produce power when the sun is shining directly on their flat surface. Coupled with the fact that the energy is then stored in copper rods and the tubes are vacuum-sealed, providing perfect insulation and allowing very little of the energy to escape. In fact the tubes are so well insulated that the outsides of the tubes are usually cool to the touch while the temperature of the rods storing the solar power can be well over three hundred degrees Fahrenheit. The combination of these two factors enables building owners to use solar energy even in climates where it was once though to be impractical, including those with much cloudy weather and colder climates. If you are a landlord in New York green energy is now a practical option.
This is one green energy source that you are going to want to make use of. Installing solar heating tubes in your premises will not only reduce your carbon footprint and help save the planet, but it also saves you a lot of money in the long run. When you put those two things together, its awfully difficult to come up with a good reason not to use solar heating tubes.
