Solar Panels – Help Decrease Utility Bills As Well As Your Home’s CO2 Footprint
One glacier, the Trotting Glacier, liquefies more water in 24 hours than NY City consumes 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 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. However, the resources that are used to make this electricity or gas aren’t replenish-able and are increasingly harder to find as 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. 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.
Solar electricity water heating is presumably the simplest application of solar energy that we have today. It is just a matter of harnessing the thermal rays of the sun and applying it to water.
The solar panel is referred to as 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 home that receives direct sunlight (often a southern exposure 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 built to absorb the maximum heat from the sun.
A solar panel batch collector system is a tank of water that has been altered to use the most of the energy from the sun. Surfaces that are black, which absorb the thermal energy, are included. The tank is located in an area that has a lot of sunlight and it is close to the house. The water supplied by either of these systems can then be used in the regular plumbing system of the house where it may be employed for common-or-garden use like showers, washing up the dishes and cooking. 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 part in the reduction of the amount of greenhouse gases sent into the atmosphere. These are just some of the advantages and disadvantages of solar power.
