Enter A $100AU Prize Draw To Win Handmade Vintage Fabric Bags And Homewares
Thanks for checking out our brand new blog page Thrift Recycle Handmade. Now is your last chance for our special offer – to enter our free eco-friendly $100 Bessie prize pack draw. Just comment here, on our website, or like/comment on the facebook page. We’ll add an extra entry for each!
We promised that for the prize we’d include a special new release handmade item – great for the environment for two reasons and you will be the first to have one. The first reason is like many of our other products, it is made of recycled and vintage fabric and notions. Secondly, if you use it – you will help save the planet. It is a set of three brand new Bessie produce bags.
What are produce bags? Perhaps you have heard it called something else. Simply, instead of your fruit and vege going into a plastic bag in the produce section of your supermarket or from the markets, you can use a lightweight, reusable fabric drawstring bag. You can even wash them every few weeks if you need to.
Over the last decade, we have seen a huge decrease in plastic bag consumption at the checkout. Like reusable grocery bags, our produce bags go one step further for sustainable living.
If you check out recent blogs or our Bessie website you will know that we have loads of fabric to choose from and for a short time will we will custom make your orders.
Inject some flair into your shopping, and salvage some of our precious resources for our planet. Naturally, they are perfect for vintage and retro lovers.
Plus, we have some other cool vintage items in the prize pack- and it includes postage to your country. So enter now – add your comment or like or subscribe away. The more you do the more chance to win.
Learn more about our selection of vintage and retro fabric available. Or stop by Michelle Gilmore’s blog where you can find out all about recycling vintage fabrics and what it can do for you.
Swimming Pool Water Heating By Means Of Solar Panels
The rising value of alternative energy may have something to do with the way individuals purchase gadgets and think of more ways to consume electricity. You may not notice the trivial alterations in your electricity bill, but believe me, those small expenditures pile up. Solar energy is free electricity. Regardless of how you look at it, it’s something that can benefit your family. Even if you just make use of it to power your laptop, that’s still a few dollars less on your electricity bill.
Solar energy can be harnessed several ways. Solar power is what we call the electrical energy produced by using daylight. This electricity can be stored in batteries. Solar thermal power is heat that is created from the sun’s rays. Solar thermal power has helped average homes and even some resorts heat up their pools.
The sun’s energy can heat up your swimming pool using paraphernalia like collectors. These low, medium and high collectors are responsible for transforming daylight into electrical energy strong enough to heat up your swimming pool. Solar panels used for heating a swimming swimming pool can be considered as low level collectors.
Water heating systems that use solar energy are also on hand. This new technology is a great way to store solar electrical power for use in water heating systems. The federal government supports this endeavor by consumers, as shown in the tax cut that they give to users that set up alternative power tools. The expenditures of installation will be made up by what is saved on energy bills.
High level collectors are typically for business use. You most likely know a few factories that use devices like steam turbines. The variant of this type of collector meant for home use is not much different. If you need more electrical power for things other than pool heating, you can simply upgrade your solar thermal energy unit appropriately to suit your needs. This means of power production in relevant to you if you live far from the grid.
Solar thermal power is a good way to heat water. Even if you don’t have a pool, you can use it to warm your bath water. You need not suffer anymore just because you want to save up on your electricity expenses. Moreover, you can rest assured that by setting up solar power collectors, you’re helping the environment.
You need not worry about expenditures if you have your unit installed and operating. Most of the time, the units come with a good manual you can refer to if you have to adjust or repair something. Factories have been using alternative energy for years, but now even home owners are wise enough to follow suit.
Learning how to harvest solar energy is just the start. You also need to discover other forms of alternative electrical energy resources and make use of them.
Want to find out more about pool panels, then stop by Roy Forchet’s site on how to choose the better pool solar panel to reduce your energy bill.
Solar Heating Tubes And Green Energy
Many landlords are finally starting to seriously think about climate change, and using solar heating tubes and green energy to supply your building’s water can do much to make an environmentally conscious tenant happier. If you own commercial property, an industrial building or residential apartments, your prospective clientele will appreciate the benefits of using green energy. Switching to green energy sources where possible will give prospective tenants one more reason to rent your building space.
Green credentials aside, there are lots of reasons to install solar panels. You can save significantly on your gas or electric expenses by lowering your dependence on outside energy sources to heat your water. You can use these savings to increase your profit margins, become more competitive by passing savings on to your tenants, or both.
Using solar energy to heat water is not a new idea, of course. Scientists are known to have experimented with the idea of using the sun’s energy to heat water since the mid 1800s. However, although the technology has come a long way since then, until recently solar energy was somewhat unreliable in cold or cloudy locations. And yet this is where people spend more money on heating and hot water. With the development of vacuum-sealed solar heating tubes, however, an increasing number of people are able to make use of a solar energy system.
The cylindrical shape of solar heating tubes allows them to be positioned in such a way that some of their surface continuously faces towards the sun, allowing them to absorb the suns rays for longer. As they are able to glean the sun’s rays more efficiently, they are able to harvest enough solar power to heat your building’s water even in colder climates. Being vacuum sealed further helps their efficiency because vacuums provide the best situation in which to insulate the heat source. This means that less heating power is wasted. The middle of the tube will get hot, but the outside of the tube, insulated by the vacuum, will remain cool to the touch. This results in an increase in the amount of the solar power being retained and used for its intended purpose, heating the water in your building.
Your building’s boiler system or hot water heater uses up a sizable chunk of the power your building uses. You can reduce your energy bills and those of your tenants significantly by installing solar heating tubes and letting green energy work for you. You will only have to buy and install the solar heating tubes once, but the savings can last a lifetime.
This is the ideal time to begin using green energy sources like solar heating tubes. Many governments now offer financial incentives for building owners to install solar heating tubes which makes use of sustainable, green energy sources. Several countries will even provide a grant towards the installation of your solar heating tubes or solar panels. Sooner or later, green energy is going to be the order of the day for all building owners. It is better to get on board now, while the government is willing to help you with the costs.
Craig Axelrod is VP of Business Development for EmmyEnergy.com, a New York solar power company installing solar heating tubes solar pv systems & clean systems in the Northeast.
