In one day, more water is produced by the melting of the Trotting Glacier than the population of New York City uses in one year; this glacier has receded 9 miles in just 5 years. The proof is the ice core records that reflect both CO2 and temperature levels going back 650,000 years. Each fume from a smoke stack and combustion engine output contributes to the seventy million tons of CO2 that people release into the air every day. Reducing our CO2 levels is the only option for lowering the effect of releasing CO2 into our atmosphere.

Most family houses spend around a 3rd of their energy budget on heating water for daily uses.

Heating water for showers, baths, cleaning clothes and a number of other stuff is done by electricity or gas supplied by utility companies. But the resources utilized in providing electricity and gas are non-renewable, and as more natural resources are consumed they are increasingly more difficult to find. This makes it hard for the typical household client with electric and water bills that keep on increasing at very high figures. As carbon-based fuels get harder and harder to locate and extract, this will only continue. For almost 100 years, a solar panel has been used to successfully heat up water.

It appears that the simplest application of solar energy that is currently available is solar electricity water heating. It merely requires using the principle behind the sun’s thermal rays to heat up water.

The solar panel is called the flat plate collector and batch collector systems. Flat plate collectors are just a chain of pipes that are positioned in an area of the home that receives direct sunlight (often a southern exposure and fitted to the roof). Water is passed through the pipes and is heated by the heat of the sun in contrast to any chemical chain reaction. The pipes are built to absorb the maximum heat from the sun.

A solar panel batch collector system is a tank of water that has been altered to use the most of the energy from the sun. Surfaces that are black, which absorb the thermal energy, are included. The tank is located in an area that has a lot of sunlight and it is close to the house. The water given by either one of these systems can be used for the typical plumbing system of the home, where it can be used for regular uses like showers, dish washing and cooking. Buying and installing each system will cost a lot of money but the upkeep cost is low and the system will last anywhere from ten to twenty-five years.

Dependent on how much hot water you use and how effective your house is in storing hot water, you might get back the purchase and installation costs inside 5 to seven years. You would also be doing your part in the reduction of the amount of greenhouse gases sent into the atmosphere. Just to mention a few of the advantages and disadvantages of solar power.