Solar Swimming Pool Heating - Save energy and the environment

In general, I am not a very big environmentalist, but it doesn't hurt to pay attention to it. It is not that I don't care, it is simply that I have other priorities that take precedence over the environment these days. You see, I am a very busy guy. Every hour of my day is scheduled, and I don't have time to do things like install wind turbines or solar panels on the roof of my garage. Nonetheless, some technologies just makes sense. I recycle because it is easy, and I try to buy fewer disposable products with extra packaging. Most of all, I try to use energy saving technologies whenever I can. That is why I had someone install solar swimming pool heating.

Solar heating for swiming pools is remarkably easy to use and even the initial outlay of money is a little pricey, your return on investment is usually back in a couple of years in electricity cost savings, not to mention the saving of the environment. Also solar heating systems usually have about a ten year warranty. For a while, I stayed away from solar pool heaters, because I believed that they would involve installing solar panels. Solar panels, you see, involve a lot of work to put in. You have to install them on the roof, attach several circuits together, and check them to make sure that all of the solar heating cells are functioing properlyl.

Solar swimming pool heating, by contrast, is quite easy to install and use. Basically, the most simple way to have solar swimming pool heating is to get a special solar pool cover or blanket for above ground and in ground pools for efficency. Solar pool covers are a very simple improvement on the basic design. Basically, they have solar blankets or collectors built in to one side of them. These solar heaters work by trapping the suns rays underneath the pool and on the surface from the hot day sun. The sun can penetrate the top of the solar swimming pool heating cover, but cannot escape once it is in the pool. Although solar swimming pool heating only really increases the water temperature by a few degrees, this can translate to huge amounts of energy savings over the long term.

Of course, there are even more sophisticated kinds of solar heating systems for swimming pools. One of the best solar swimming pool heating designs that I have heard talked about is one that runs some of the water through a solar heating tank. The sun's rays are focused on this water when it is in the tank, and it is then slowly pumped back into the pool. This solar swimming pool heating uses convection currents to slowly rotate the water in and out of the system. Although I'm not sure if it is commercially available yet, I have heard that it has been extensively researched as a design. For now, however, I will keep it simple. I am very happy with the solar swimming pool heating that I have been using.