With solar energy becoming more and more important in the scheme of things, both for nations and for individuals, various applications of solar power have been seen to arise, and among these is the inflatable solar system.
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Of course, nations as a whole are slow to move, and while governments have funded some research into alternative energy systems, such as wave-based or tidal-based power, for example, the even more impressive solar powered metal furnace (yes!) that France developed, yet as a rule, the governments of the world have moved too slowly on alternative energy. Governments seem to be content to rely upon depleting oil reserves, and prefer to leave the solutions to the energy crisis to ‘later governments’.
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The problem is that the issue of depleting energy reserves is not important enough to the voting public, because they haven’t exactly begun to feel the coming energy shortage yet, which allows the present governments to take the present comfortable, though not very wise approach to the situation, instead of investigating possible solutions such as (for example) the inflatable solar system.
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So what exactly is the inflatable solar system? I know the name makes it sound like a star and planets that can be inflated instantaneously, but while the reality may not be so dramatic, it is certainly useful. An inflatable solar system is a system of heating water that can be inflated. More solar system facts will be given below.
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Deflated, it folds and becomes extremely compact – actually compact enough to fit into, and be carried in a backpack. And I’m sure that knowing that, you can imagine all the useful possibilities this makes possible.
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But if the inflatable panel becomes that small folded, just how big and how effective is it inflated? Well, it inflates to a square each side of which measure two meters long, or about seven feet! And as for effectiveness, this inflatable solar system can heat enough water to fill three tanks.
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Best of all, the system is hardy and extremely weather resistant, which means that you can use it anywhere – on the roof of your house, on the roof of your mobile home when you stop somewhere. Why, if you have a big enough group when camping, this heating system could be carried along, to provide solar powered heated water just about anywhere, via your inflatable solar system.
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Solar power water heating systems have been around for a long, long time, of course, and are indeed in use all over the world. However, this is the first time anyone has tried to not only make such a system portable, but even better to keep the price within affordable norms.
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But just how affordable is affordable? Well, IDC, the UK based company that markets the inflatable solar system, claims that they will retail individual units at not more than a hundred pounds or about two hundred dollars at the most.
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And that is very affordable in an industry where the price of solar power systems or solar electric systems have been basically what has been keeping growth rates low. If the trend of low-prices solar power systems continues, we could be looking at a far cleaner solar powered world in a decade or two.
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Best regards,
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The Build Solar Team
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