Construction Informer

Most of us are familiar with solar as an electric generating option for our homes and businesses. Photovoltaic panels installed on rooftops, for example, generate electricity that can then be used on site, or fed back to the power company for credit. Solar technology though is advancing rapidly. Now there is a solar heater that can heat up to 750 square feet in any climate.

The idea is to supplement your existing heat with solar heat. The beauty of these things is they are easy enough for do-it-yourselfers to install, they are made of aluminum and glass so they last a long time, and they augment ANY type of heating system.

This Unit Helps to Heat the Home

Now, you do have to get a little prepared for the price…roughly $1700 per unit. Still, if I think about the need to heat a space 750 square feet in area for say 20 years…what will that cost me? Granted, this will only heat during the day but still, if I can provide half the heat for that area that means I could pay for the unit in savings pretty quickly and after that it’s all free.

You can also hook several units together so you can heat even larger spaces. I have a new project coming up and I’m going to consider these as one aspect of the energy package for the building. Here is one of the units on a home.

The Orangelist Spring 2008 Construction Blog Directory is the only human-compiled listing of construction blogs. This list contains just over 60 blogs that have been meticulously catalogued by a human being, not a ‘bot,’ spider or algorithmic directory generator. In the list you will have access to each blog’s:

• hyperlink;

• Google Page Rank;

• index of Consistency, Robustness and Originality;

• keyword list describing the blog’s content; and

• a complete list of the number of posts added each month for the duration of the blog’s existence.

ATTENTION: There are no home improvement or do-it-yourself blogs in this directory. This list is for those who are in construction businesses, or who offer products and services to construction businesses.

Here’s where you can get it.