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Chase Away The Cold Weather With A Solar Hot Water System

Chase Away The Cold Weather With A Solar Hot Water System

For around 4.7 billion years the sun has warmed the Earth, this giant ball of gas and fire has given us light and energy, the sun even supply's us humans with vitamin D. Thanks to electricity and solar power you can now use the sun to heat your home and power all your electrical appliances. Solar power enables home owners to not only save money, many also make money by selling excess energy that they generate but don't use.

The simplest set-up is a hot water system

No weather is cold enough when you install a solar hot water system in your house. This system is very reliable and useful for every season especially during the winter months and cold weather spells. No matter how cold the weather gets, you will always have hot water within your reach. You can have access to hot water any time you need it when you have your own solar hot water system. If you install a system like this cold weather will not affect you as much.

Benefits of hot water

I expect you aware that bathing using cold water can be very difficult. If it's cold enough you may even develop hypothermia which could result in a more serious medical condition, even death. In this day and age many of us are lucky enough to have hot water in our homes. This means that unlike your ancestors you can avoid feeling cold, maybe even getting hypothermia when bathing.

Hot water is especially helpful for the elderly, children and young ones. As you know, the younger the age, the more sensitive to temperature. Children will struggle to tolerate cold water especially during winter and any other cold season. In fact, they may not be able to take a bath at all due to extreme coldness of the water. In order to provide warmth to your children, it is essential that you have some form of hot water system in your house. Many of us in the west will have access to hot or warm water 24 hours a day and 7 days a week anyway but solar can save us money.

How a basic solar hot water system works

However, in order to identify areas for improvement, it’s important to monitor your energy consumption. Energy usage meters can provide crucial data, to help you visualise energy spikes and establish the consumption of individual machines and appliances.Solar water systems require solar panels, also know as collectors these panels are fitted to your roof. As the name suggests the collectors collect heat from the sun and use it to heat up water which is then stored in a hot water cylinder. A boiler or immersion heater can still be used as a back-up or to heat the water further until it reaches the temperature you want. In the summer months a hot water system will probably be able to supply enough hot water for all your needs but in the winter a backup source may also be required.

With a solar water heating system children and the elderly will be able to enjoy their bath despite the cold weather and you won't need to worry about your energy bill, depending on your set up you may even be able to supply energy to the grid and get paid by your electricity supplier.

This post was supplied by Mark Stubbles, Mark writes for Getsolarpanelquotes.com a UK site which connects home owners with solar energy installation companies.

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