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Solar Heating Tubes: Generate Your Own Heat
Today’s rental market is very competitive and earning profits through the lease of building space is often fraught with difficulties. As you probably know, there are only two ways to keep yourself ahead in the real estate business. One is to increase your earnings, which usually means increasing your rent; the other is to cut your operating costs. In today’s competitive market, increasing your tenants’ rent may cost you your tenants, as tenants may simply choose to go elsewhere. With the market being what it is, it would be very easy for them to find buildings that have lower rental rates. For that reason, the best way to increase your profits is to reduce your expenses. Installing solar heating tubes will drastically lower your heating costs by supplying your building with free hot water.
Whether you own residential, commercial or industrial buildings, your tenants will need hot water. It’s likely that your water heating system is one of your larger expenses. Using solar heating tubes to heat your water will take a large bite out of the amounts of gas or electricity you use to keep your tenants in hot water, therefore shrinking your expenses (and increasing your profits) considerably. Unlike solar panels, solar heating tubes will work whatever the weather so you can keep on saving money throughout the year.
Solar heating tubes are basically cylinders which take in and store the suns heat. The shape of the tubes increases the efficiency of the technology as they will collect sunlight all day long. Solar panels, on the other hand, need direct sunlight and so can only collect energy for shorter periods when the sunlight is at its strongest.
Heat from the sun is absorbed by the tubes and stored in an inner tube of fluid. The liquid super-heats to 170 degrees Fahrenheit and is then introduced into your heating system. Put simply, this means that your building’s water is heated by the natural heat of the sun. Solar heating tubes also give you another way to reduce heating costs; by using that heated water to heat your building itself.
The most important thing is that solar heating tubes can help you reduce heating costs. This will give you an edge in a competitive market. With climate change experts calling for companies and individuals to switch to renewable energy, you should give some serious thought to investing in solar heating tubes as a way to reduce your heating costs and drive down your bottom line. Look into government programs that will defer some of the costs involved in installing solar heating rods and other environmentally friendly sources of energy production.
Of all the benefits of solar heating tubes, conceivably the best reason to use solar heating tubes is so that your tenants know that you are doing everything in your power to keep their carbon emissions and energy costs down. You may even find, should you be advertising for new tenants, that your cost cutting measures are helping you appeal to a growing number of potential environmentally conscious tenants.
Craig Axelrod is VP of Business Development for EmmyEnergy.com, a Long Island solar power operation installing solar heating tube systems solar pv systems & green products in the Northeast.
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