Decorating with Fabric is pleased to announce its’ newest addition to its’ Green and Sustainable products. This energy saving product is called SolarChoice Heaters.
SolarChoice Heaters are breakthrough passive solar heaters that masquerade as vertical window blinds. These innovative heaters can significantly reduce your heating bills and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. It’s a smart, simple way to generate clean, renewable heat with a solar heater that is the newest application of solar heating technology.
SolarChoice Heaters are easy to install and require no moving parts or connections. From the moment they’re put in place you start generating free heat from the sun and lowering your heating bills. And SolarChoice heaters are planet positive. You get all this from a SolarChoice vertical blind window treatment – the only window treatment that heats and insulates.
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How do SolarChoice Heaters work?
Appearing and operating as vertical window treatments, SolarChoice Heaters draw cool air into the bottom of each solar heating blind. As air travels up each vane and along the solar heated, aluminum core it exits the top and re-circulates into the room at temperatures up to 120 degrees. It’s a simple passive solar heater that generates heat to help reduce your heating bills.
An R-value of 1.73 helps SolarChoice Heaters retain the free heat they generate in your home or office. With the insulation equivalent of many double pane, gas-filled windows SolarChoice Heaters are designed to keep the heat in your home or office during the fall and winter and help insulate against air conditioning loss during warm weather months.
The value proposition is straight forward. Every square inch of the SolarChoice Blind, hung in a south facing window is capable of generating in excess of 5+ BTU’s for every 8 hours of sunlight. The savings a consumer can anticipate is a function of the surface area in square inches of the windows equipped with SolarChoice heaters times 5 BTU’s per sunny day. This is all accomplished on a completely renewable basis.
Here is what that means in energy savings of a standard 6 foot by 8 foot sliding glass door:
Square Inches: 6,912
BTU’s per Day: 38,016
BUT’s per Month: 1,140,480
Here is what that means in dollars and cents of a standard 6 foot by 8 foot sliding glass door:
BTU’s Per Month: 1,140,480
Average Cost per BTU : $0.00003224
Cost Savings per Month: $36.77
SolarChoice Heater Can be Mounted on An Existing Vertical Blind Head Rail.
Validation of Performance
SolarChoice sought and received the help of the University of Minnesota SKY TEAM of engineers to measure the efficacy and performance of the SolarChoice Heater. They measured the heat output of the product to quantify heat produced by the product under the prescribed conditions both in a home setting and in the laboratory. In addition they have measured the velocity of air circulated by convection for the individual slats to determine the circulatory properties of the heat generation. While SolarChoice financed the analytic work performed, it had no influence on the results. The SKY TEAM operated completely independently of SolarChoice in the measurement and analysis results. Additional analysis continues to be conducted to evaluate enhancements to the product.
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