Solar Water Heaters

by Tod Clemens

by Markus Highland

These systems are able to heath water for various uses including industrial, business or home users. The most popular uses for solar water heaters are hot water heating for radiant heating in the floor and for .

The systems can efficiently heat the water to be used in many areas of a house, business, or industry. Radiant-floor heating and heating swimming-pool water are the most used ways for the solar hot water heaters.

As far as home water heating, you can choose from two kinds of systems. One is the compact system and the other one is the pumped system. Normally either one uses an extra energy source, that could be an electric element for heating or possible the basic central system for heating with gas or fuel oil, and these are activated only as the water held in the reservoir cools down under 50 degrees centigrade. Having this setup will guarantee you a steady supply of hot water. You could go as far as to combine the solar heating of the water with the wood-burning stoves, which will work well in cooler climates and not utilize any fossil fuels or electricity.

The collectors of your solar energy are mainly attached to either a wall which faces to the sun, a building, or the roof of your home. The collector can be free-standing but this is not the normal way it is used. The passive version of the systems pushes fluid the solar collector and the active version of the systems pumps the fluid along the workings of the system.

The collector can be made of a box that is insulated and topped off with a top that is glass. Then the solar collector has a flat shape and is made of copper piping, which are painted black and then connected to either sheet metal or tubes of metal, which are enclosed in a glass cylinder. At times the parabolic mirror focuses all the energy from the sun on that tube. Many of these systems totally covert the sun's light into heat and have no dependence upon an outside temperature.

Not only does a solar water heater make sense financially, it is a nice environmental choice. In the warmer climates the backup energy source will be used little and even in cooler climates the amount used is significantly lower than a traditional hot water heater.

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