Solar Panels – Help Decrease Utility Bills In Addition To Your Home’s CO2 Emissions
Posted on
August 1st, 2009 by
Grace
In one day, more water is produced by the melting of the Trotting Glacier than the population of New York City uses in one year; this glacier has receded 9 miles in just 5 years. The proof is the ice core records that reflect both CO2 and temperature levels going back 650,000 years. Each puff from a smoke stack and output from a combustion engine makes a contribution to the seventy million tons of CO2 that humans pump into the atmosphere each twenty-four hours. Reducing our CO2 levels is the only option for lowering the effect of releasing CO2 into our atmosphere.
Most households spend approximately 1/3 of their energy funds for heating water every day.
Heating water for showers, baths, cleaning clothes and a number of other stuff is done by electricity or gas supplied by utility companies. In any case, these resources used to make this gas or electricity are becoming increasingly harder to locate, as they cannot be replenished and more natural resources are used up. This can strain the average consumer’s budget as power and water bills continue to rise faster than the rate of inflation. As carbon-based fuels become more rare and difficult to extract, utility bills will continue to increase. For almost one hundred years, a solar panel has been used to heat water.
Solar electricity water heating is presumably the simplest application of solar energy that we have today. It merely requires using the principle behind the sun’s thermal rays to heat up water.
The solar panel is called the flat plate collector and batch collector systems. Flat plate collectors are just a chain of pipes that are positioned in an area of the house where they have access to direct daylight (often a southern exposure on the roof). Water comes through the pipes and the sun heats it up without any chemicals. The pipes are constructed to soak up the most heat from the sun.
A solar panel batch collector system is a water tank which has been modified to obtain the most from the sun’s energy. Surfaces of black that absorb thermal energy are included. Close to the home, and in an area that receives a lot of direct sunlight, is where the tank is located. It is possible for the water obtained from either of these systems to be utilized in the house’s regular plumbing system, for showers, dishwashing, cooking and watering the garden. The upkeep cost is minimal and the system will last about ten to twenty-five years, although the purchase and installation cost of each system is expensive.
Dependent on how much hot water you use and how effective your house is in storing hot water, you might get back the purchase and installation costs inside 5 to seven years. You would also be doing your bit in reducing the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. These are just some of the advantages and disadvantages of solar power.
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