Friday, 31 January 2014

Using A Solar Heat Exchanger To Heat Your Home

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.

Everybody wants to save money. The amount of money that we all pay in our energy bills is way too high. You can look at your past 5 years of energy bills and you will see that all of the categories have gone up over the years. What this means is that everything is costing us all more money. The fees and costs are raising and there is no sign of any of it slowing down.

In the summer time we have to have air conditioning to cool the house down. This takes electricity to run the unit that cools the house down. In the winter we need to heat our homes and in most cases this is done with natural gas which runs the heater. We also need to heat our water so we can have hot water for our sinks and for bathing.

Of course it is just a small start, but one way to get things going is to start in our homes. Starting at home means looking for new ways to do things and new ways to save money. By doing so we will also be doing our part for the rest of the world. Renewable energy is the new way to do things and we can be the beginning of that movement.

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.

This heated liquid now runs past a large water tank that holds the water that will eventually be used in the sinks and in the showers. The heated liquid passes by this tank and heats the water instead of the natural gas running through and burning under the tank to heat it. This is obviously cheaper because you will be using less gas.

These heated pipes will in turn run through a tank that holds all the water used by the home that will be used for hot water. The pipes warm that water just like a water heater would warm it. It can then be used for whatever purposes you would need hot water for. This same process can be used to heat air just as well and therefore used to heat the house in the winter time.

a solar heat exchanger is a good way to do many things. You will save yourself money because you will not have to use as much gas to heat your water. If you use it to heat the air in your home in the winter you will save money there too. IN addition you will get a tax break and also feel much better because of what you are doing for you planet.




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