Solar Water Heaters
If you’re trying to make your New Jersey home more energy efficient, Water Heaters NJ has several options for you. High efficiency water heaters can help out a lot, and tankless water heaters are even more efficient. But when it comes to energy efficient water heating, solar water heaters simply can’t be beat.
A solar water heater is typically used alongside a traditional water heater because weather can easily effect solar water heaters. Adding a solar water heater to can reduce your energy costs significantly, and it can take does your CO2 emissions by as much as 50%, or sometimes even more.
Sunlight is a free, limitless fuel, and converting into energy creates no emissions so whatsoever. So what’s the downside?
The problem with solar power is its efficiency: it’s difficult to transform sunlight into electricity, and it can be less efficient that harnessing wind for power, for instance. But converting sunlight into heat is much easier—which means that when it comes to solar water heater, there is no downside.
Solar Water Heating Systems
At its core, a solar water heater just uses sunlight to heat up water—it’s literally the most natural thing in the world. Of course, a home water heater needs to work faster than just leaving water out in the sun will, so the system is a bit more complicated.
The core of a solar water heater is its solar collector and storage tank. A solar collector is basically a box with a dark-colored interior and, usually, a bunch of tubes or passages for water flow. The solar collector turns the sun’s radiation into heat. A storage tank is simply where the water is stored.
Benefits of Solar Water Heaters
The first benefit that you’ll notice when you add a solar water heating system to your New Jersey home. But that’s not all that will happen!
- Most likely, the electricity or gas you use to heat water in your home will be drop by 50%.
- You’ll also see a 50% drop in the amount of pollution that your New Jersey home emits.
- At the same time, you’re conserving nonrenewable fuels for applications for which there are currently no easily available renewable energy sources.
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