In today’s financial and political environment, smart building owners are desperately seeking new ways to adhere to government and tenant demands. Finding more environment friendly ways of supplying energy to your buildings can present a big challenge.
You will no doubt have heard about the many benefits of wind power, but allow me to introduce you to solar heating tubes: the other green energy source. The sun is the most powerful source of natural energy we have. Every day, 365 days per year The sun gives us energy in the form of light and heat all year long. However most of the energy it supplies goes to waste, while we continue to use polluting and rapidly disappearing fossil fuels. Things are only going to get worse if we continue to burn fossil fuels, and it’s time to embrace an environmentally favorable approach to supplying our energy needs, while many world governments are offering financial incentives.
Using solar heating tubes as an alternate form of green energy has many benefits, for both landlords and tenants. Even if solar energy is only used to heat the buildings water the savings can be enormous, depending on the buildings hot water consumption. Obviously, different buildings use vastly different amounts of hot water, but hot water is used in one fashion or another in just about every building, whether it is for tenants taking showers, doing laundry, washing dishes, or even just washing their hands. Most properties also use radiant heat, using coils of heated water beneath the flooring to heat the rooms. If this is the case with your buildings, you’ll be able to cut your heating bills significantly, if not entirely.
In places like New York solar energy has always been regarded as ineffective as the weather is changeable and there is often not enough direct sunlight for solar panels to be effective. Solar heating tubes, on the other hand, work differently and are able to capture much more sunlight. The cylindrical shape of the receptors allows the receiving unit to harvest solar energy throughout the day, as they have a larger surface area than conventional solar panels, which only produce power when the sun is shining directly onto their flat surface. Coupled with the fact that the energy is then kept inside copper rods and surrounded by a vacuum sealed tube, which allows very little of the energy to escape. The tubes are so well insulated that the surface of the tubes will remain cool while the copper rods inside of them can reach over 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The introduction of these two design elements allows property owners to utilize solar energy even in cooler climates. If you are a landlord in New York green energy is now within your grasp.
Solar heating tubes are one green energy source that you would be a fool not to take advantage of. Installing solar heating tubes in your premises will not only reduce your carbon footprint and help save the planet, it has the potential to leave a lot of additional green in your bank account. If you put those two things together, it’s awfully difficult to think of a good reason not to use solar heating tubes.
Craig Axelrod is VP of Business Development for EmmyEnergy.com, a New York solar energy business delivering solar heating tube systems solar electric systems & green systems throughout the North East.
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