Solar Heating Tubes: The Ideal Solar Energy System
Written by Craig Axelrod   
Saturday, 17 July 2010 07:28
In the modern business and political environment, building owners are struggling to conform to government and tenant demands. Getting hold of more environmentally conscious ways to heat your buildings can be a real challenge.
by CraigAxelrod


In the current business and political environment, intelligent landlords are looking for ways to adhere to government regulations and tenant demands. Finding more environment friendly ways to heat our buildings can present a challenge.

We're all familiar with the latest advances in wind technology and the great strides that are being made in that area, but you may not know about 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 The sun gives us energy in the form of light and heat throughout the year. Yet most of this energy goes unused, while we continue to burn polluting and rapidly disappearing fossil fuels. The situation is only going to get worse for those who continue to use fossil fuels, and the time to use solar energy to power our homes is now, while many world governments are offering financial incentives.

Employing solar heating tubes to heat a building has many benefits, for both landlords and their tenants. Even if solar power is only used to heat the buildings water the savings can be huge, depending on how much hot water the building uses. Needless to say, different buildings use vastly different quantities of warm water, but hot water is used in one way or another in nigh on every building, whether it's tenants taking showers, doing laundry, washing dishes, or using warm water for general cleaning purposes. A lot of properties also employ central heating systems, which use coils of heated water beneath the floor boards to heat the rooms. If this is the case with your buildings, you will be able to take even greater advantage of the energy cost savings 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 sun's rays. The shape of the solar heating tubes allows the receiving unit to collect solar energy during all daylight hours, because the sunlight will reach the surface of the cylinder from any angle, as opposed to flat solar panels, which require direct sunlight to work effectively. The energy collected is then kept in copper rods and the tubes are vacuum-sealed, providing perfect insulation and allowing almost none of the energy to escape. The tubes are so well insulated that the surface of the tubes are usually relatively cool even though inside the copper rods can reach over three hundred degrees Fahrenheit. The introduction of these two recent advances in solar technology allows landlords to use solar energy even in climates where it was once though to be impractical, like those with much cloudy weather and colder environments. If you are a landlord in New York green energy is now a practical alternative.

This really is one green energy source that you would be a fool not to take advantage of. Installing solar heating tubes in your premises won't just reduce your carbon footprint and protect the ozone, but it also has the potential to leave a lot of extra green in your bank account. When you look at it that way, it's awfully difficult to ignore the benefits of installing solar heating tubes.

About the Author:

Craig Axelrod is a principal for EmmyEnergy.com, a New York solar energy system business offering solar heating tube systems solar electric panels & clean products throughout the North East.
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