Saturday, February 1, 2014

How A Solar Heat Exchanger Can Help Save Money

By Linda Maynard


Throughout the year people end up spending a lot of money on natural gas expenses. The non renewable energy source is used to power heaters that heat up water for homes as well as to heat up the air to heat up the home during the winter months. Using a solar heat exchanger is a great way to save money and prevent yourself from going broke trying to keep up with your bills.

When trying to save money where your homes energy consumption is concerned there are a lot of places that you can look. In large part this is because over the last few years there have been many products that have come out in an attempt to do this very thing. First we need to realize where our heating and cooling comes from before we can figure out ways to save money with it.

So with all of us paying more and more money to heat and cool our homes or to make hot water we have to find ways to save money. The other alternative is for us to make our own energy and that is just not possible unless you are an engineer with tons of money. Since we are all regular people, we have to look at what we have available to us.

So we need natural gas for our hot water as well as our heating in the winter time. This gas costs money and a lot of it. It has also gone up considerably over the last few years. All of our energy costs have. So we can find ways to bring this cost down. One of the best ways and cheapest ways to do this is with a solar heat exchanger.

The first is a liquid to liquid method. With this method there is a chemical liquid that circulates through the pipes of the machine. As the solar panels gather sunlight and create heat in the coils where the chemical liquid is, that now hot liquid circulates around and makes its way to a tank that holds your water.

The units are not too large but the work with the other things that we already have installed in our homes so that the disruption is minimal. They start by collecting solar energy from the sunlight that hits our homes daily. They take that energy and heat a liquid chemical in some insulated pipes that run through the unit.

This method actually works to heat water throughout the day and whenever you need it. It also works in the winter to heat the air that goes through a blower just like the natural gas heater would work. They all work on the exact same principles except instead of natural gas it uses the solar power to do all of the work.

A solar heat exchanger is a great way to get into the solar power movement and to help with the planets need for renewable energy. We all need to do what we can and to do our part. In doing so we are at least doing something and we need to all put in something. If we do nothing then nothing will ever get done.




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