Energy efficient home heating

Good news! We have at our disposition one of the smartest way to heat up our houses, and better yet we can do this really inexpensively. A solar panel installed outside that heats up air inside your home or other locations (garage, cottage, ice fishing hut, etc.) 10k Btu/hour for less than 3000$

Watching Daily Planet on Discovery channel I've crossed a clip of "one man's dreams to bring us solar power!" Jim Meany and his solar power air heating panel the "Model RA 240 SOLAR MAX"



Reduce - Reuse
His patent is simple but yet still pure genius. Assuring a place in my green devices blog since his product is reusing material. (Reusing is even better than recycling as it reduce energy consumption and pollution created while transformations are applied.)



Convection solar heating,
Sun heat transfer happen inside the panels as the sun radiate on a continuous tube made of thin aluminum. (In this case, reused soda cans and beer cans painted black) These are behind a special plastic to help increase efficiency.

Cheap - inexpensive
Cheapest and most inexpensive outdoor solar heat source by a mile. Comparing with heat exchanger and geothermal.

With a price of 2745$ Canadian. While heat exchanger and geothermal installation consume less energy than a regular baseboard heater, they are still requiring lots of energy to run. Plus their manufacturing and toxic products involved have a more negative impact to add to the bill.

The precious energy you accumulate in your solar energy system can be put at better use. The Idea of directly heating up your air from the sun instead of using the electrical system just make more sense.

To view the product and company complete details visit their site Cansolair
The clip on discovery channel can be found here Daily Planet #clip248653