A glacier, known as the Trotting Glacier, melts more water in a day than NY City uses in a year and has receded 9 miles in 5 years. The proof is the ice core records that reflect both CO2 and temperature levels going back 650,000 years. Each fume from a smoke stack and combustion engine output contributes to the seventy million tons of CO2 that people release into the air every day. Our only hope for reducing its impact is to make an effort to seriously cut our CO2 levels.
About one third of a family’s energy budget is used for heating water for normal use.
The utility companies supply the gas or electricity to heat the water for baths, showers, washing clothing, and many other things. In any case, these resources used to make this gas or electricity are becoming increasingly harder to locate, as they can’t be replenished and more natural resources are used up. This puts the pinch on the average household customer that is finding power and water bills continuously going up at above inflation figures. This can only continue as carbon-based fuels get harder to find and extract. Using a solar panel is a good way to heat water and has had success for close to a hundred years now.
It appears that the simplest application of solar energy that is currently available is solar electricity water heating. It is just a method of using the thermal rays from the sun and putting them in the water.
The solar panel is referred to as the flat plate collector and batch collector systems. Flat plate collectors are simply a chain of pipes that are put in part of the home where there’s direct daylight (sometimes a southward-facing and fitted to the roof). Water is passed through the pipes and is heated by the heat of the sun in contrast to any chemical chain reaction. The pipes are constructed to soak up the most heat from the sun.
A solar panel batch collector system is a tank of water that has been modified to use the most of the energy from the sun. 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 buy and installation cost of each system is expensive.
Considering the amount of hot water you use and how good your home is at keeping the water hot, you might see a return on the price of installing it in about five to seven years. You would also be doing your part in the reduction of the amount of greenhouse gases sent into the atmosphere. Just to mention a few of the advantages and disadvantages of solar power.
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