Solar Heating Tubes Can Heat Your Home
Posted by: Craig Axelrod / Category: Alternative EnergyIt Can be difficult to keep pace in today’s rental market. As we all know, there are only two ways to keep yourself ahead in the real-estate business. The first is to increase your earnings, which typically means raising the rent for your tenants; the other is to decrease your operating costs. In this competitive business, increasing your tenants’ rent can be a mistake, causing your tenants to go elsewhere. The market being what it is, they may have no difficulty finding others that are prepared to cut their rental rates. Consequently, the best way to increase your profits is to cut your costs. Solar heating tubes are inexpensive and simple to install, and can reduce your heating expenses considerably.
Whether you own industrial, residential or commercial buildings, your tenants are sure to use hot water. It’s likely that your water heating system presents one of your larger expenses. Using solar heating tubes to heat your water takes a large chunk out of the money you spend on the electricity you use to keep your tenants in hot water, thus shrinking your bills (and your bottom line) considerably. Unlike solar panels, solar heating tubes will operate whatever the weather and will save you money all year round.
Solar heating tubes are basically cylinders that take in and store the suns energy. So much of the tubes’ surface is exposed to the sun, and for such long periods of time, that solar energy has become a viable option in many locations where it would not have been very useful or cost effective before.
Heat from the sun is absorbed by the tubes and stored internally by an inner tube of fluid. The fluid super-heats to one hundred seventy degrees Fahrenheit and that heat energy is transferred into your heating system. What that means, to put it in the most basic terms, is that your solar heating tubes will be able to efficiently do the job they were intended to do, namely heat your building’s water. You could also reduce heating costs by connecting the solar heating tubes to your buildings central heating system and using the heated water to heat the whole building.
Whether or not you understand the science of how they work, the important thing is that solar heating tubes can help you reduce heating costs. Any expenses that you can reduce or eliminate will give you an advantage over your competition. As many of the world’s governments call for companies and individuals to convert from carbon based fossil fuels to green energy, you should seriously consider installing solar heating tubes to reduce your carbon emissions and reduce heating expenses. With a bit of research you may discover that the government will compensate you for some of the costs involved.
Of all of the benefits of solar heating tubes, conceivably the best reason to use solar heating tubes is so that your tenants will feel that you are doing everything in your power to keep their energy costs and carbon emissions down. Should you be advertising for new tenants you might also find that tenants are willing to pay more to rent buildings that are environmentally friendly.
Craig Axelrod is a partner for EmmyEnergy.com, a New York solar power company delivering solar heating tubes solar electric panels & clean energy products throughout the North East.
