| > | | | | Choosing a solar collector, you need also to take |
| | | | care of how much energy is needed for its |
| In this time of energetic saving, emission | | | | production, this way you can choose the more |
| containment, costs and bill reduction, people are | | | | appropriate technologies with really low impact on |
| looking everywhere for new solutions to decrease | | | | environment and energy waste. |
| energy waste but not lowering our living | | | | A standard panel of 2m length and 1m width can |
| standards. | | | | heat an interior environment of about 30mq of |
| Many companies are now studying new modern | | | | surface. To heat bigger areas it is clearly possible |
| and environmentally friendly solutions for home | | | | to install more panels. |
| heating. | | | | Another solution, especially in isolated places, is the |
| One of the last discoveries are heating wall panels, | | | | use of a wood-burning stove or pellet stove or |
| an innovative ecological heating system that | | | | biomass cook stove. They all have reached a |
| guarantee great economic benefits and an | | | | very good level of efficiency and reliability and in |
| efficient ecological heating. There are two | | | | addition they don’t produce any toxic |
| different formats, the wall picture format and the | | | | waste because they burn just natural fuels. |
| wall radiator format. Thanks to their innovative | | | | The infrared rays heating is another new system |
| technology, they can heat an apartment wasting | | | | that allows to heat a house but avoiding any heat |
| much less energy than traditional heating systems. | | | | outflows. |
| In a short time they will be also available as floor | | | | Traditional radiators heat the air and the air heats |
| heating systems, easy to install and very cheap, | | | | the surrounding environment, with the use of |
| both in the laying that for their handling. | | | | infrared rays one step is eliminated. Infrared rays |
| New heating technologies are also finding valid | | | | directly heat people and objects inside the |
| solutions in the floor heating systems using solar | | | | house. The radiant heating gives out heat as |
| energy at zero cost and since they can guarantee | | | | infrared radiations, similar to solar radiation heat, |
| pleasant temperature in full respect of the | | | | creating a thermal comfort directly on the body. |
| environment. | | | | This kind of heat is absolutely clean, ecologic and |
| There are obviously solar panels that often are | | | | even with a lot of benefits for the body. It also |
| used in heat-plant to produce hot sanitary water | | | | reduces energy waste and so costs fall down. |
| or for home heating and they are also called solar | | | | Actual heating systems, based on not renewable |
| collector. There are two types of solar collectors, | | | | and often not compatible with the environment |
| flat-plate solar collectors, more common and | | | | energy sources are no more sustainable in the |
| cheaper, that can be used even if the sky is | | | | long period. |
| cloudy, and evacuated-tube collectors that use | | | | Sooner or later in our houses we will have to |
| just the direct radiation and can reach higher | | | | cope with the problem of changing heating |
| temperature but they are much more expensive | | | | system in order to use just renewable energy |
| and more suitable for industrial use. | | | | sources in full respect of the environment. Petrol |
| Of great importance is to compare the old | | | | fuel won’t last forever, and also gas is |
| system boiler/radiators with new solar panels | | | | becoming more and more expensive every year, |
| convector and new generation radiators. Talking | | | | affected by both economic and political reasons. |
| about saving, it appears quite clear that a new | | | | These are just some new innovative methods to |
| generation radiant panels system decrease fuel | | | | heat our houses, a lot of enterprises are already |
| costs down to 50% and using even more careful | | | | looking for cheaper and more efficient solutions. |
| solutions, like using it just in living or working | | | | And especially environmentally friendly. |
| areas, costs fall down by 70%. | | | | |