Home Solar Heating Is Environmentally Friendly

Home solar heating is not only an idea which is good for the environment by reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere but it is also a great way to reduce the everyday costs of living.

As the costs of energy increasingly go up, the cost of sunlight remains free. The costs of capturing and turning sunlight into useable energy are also slowly going down. If a person is willing to do their own fabrication and development of solar heating systems the prices can be reduced even more and faster. Even the prices, relative to cost of living increases, of store bought systems have slowly been coming down as the quality and capabilities have increased.

Although there is still plenty of room for improvement, solar energy systems have come a long way since first becoming available to the general public. Still, there are three basic ways to turn solar energy into heat for home solar heating. One method is by gathering it with properly facing windows and storing it in some sort of thermal mass such as concrete, stone, metal or water which then radiates it back out into the space within the glass or plastic the sunlight has passed through is one. Converting the light into electricity and then using it to run electric heaters is another.

A third way is storing a liquid such as water in black pipes exposed to the sun on the outside of a structure and then transferring that heated water within them to a place where the heat can radiate off inside the structure or even be used as heated water. Anyone who has left a hose full of water out on a hot day and then turned it on and felt the water inside the hose understands how hot it can get in even light colored hoses.

Ultimately, home solar heating, once installed, is close to a free energy source which affords savings in stress, costs and ecological impact.