Solar Heating Tubes and Green Energy

March 22, 2010
By Craig Axelrod

With one decisive step, you can slash your heating costs and attract green tenants to your buildings. By employing the latest renewable energy technology, you can dramatically reduce your use of fuel oil and electricity for your heating needs. Solar heating tubes can help you achieve this. And building owners who use environmentally friendly, climate conscious heating technology will find themselves attracting an emerging clientele who are concerned with their carbon footprints, both for ideological and practical reasons. As government regulations concerning energy consumption tighten, industrial tenants will have little choice but to look for buildings to operate from that reduce emissions as much as possible. And even residential tenants are showing an increased interest in buildings which make use of renewable energy sources.

The amount of benefit you can derive from solar heating tubes depends largely on what kind of heating system your building employs. Virtually all buildings can benefit from the benefits of using the solar heating tubes to heat your building's water. Owners of buildings that employ radiant heat can further benefit by using the solar heating tubes to heat the building itself. In either case, however, the savings can be quite substantial, especially when factored over an extended period of time.

Solar heating tubes help you slash your heating costs even if your building is in a colder environment, or one that has fewer days of direct sunshine. The tubes, cylindrical in shape, are a fairly recent development, and represent a dramatic improvement over the flat solar panels that have been with us since the 1960s. The round shape of the tubes allows them to be positioned so as to be in constant contact with available sunlight, thus making best use of what solar energy is available. Additionally, vacuum tubes are used for optimal insulation purposes, which ensures that very little of the harvested energy is lost until it is used for heating purposes within your building. And less solar power lost means less electricity and gas used, which in the end effects your bottom line by slashing your heating costs.

So, while solar technology is nothing new, and environmentally conscious clients have long encouraged building owners to seek energy efficient, renewable sources for providing heat and electricity, the means for doing so has now been developed. If you want to slash your energy costs and attract green tenants, you should strongly consider installing the latest solar heating tubes at your earliest convenience. With many of the world's governments on board with renewable energy programs, and many of them offering sizable incentives for building owners to go green, there may never be a better time to upgrade your heating system with solar power than right now. So why wait?

One final word. Even if it were not for the fact that using solar power to heat your building's water will save you money, and even if it wasn't true that demonstrating that you are an ethical, environmentally conscious business person will open up an entirely new clientele of green tenants to you, it would still be the right thing to do. All steps towards renewable, non petroleum and coal dependant energy sources not only save you money, but help save the environment for all of us. And that, simply put, is just the right thing to do.