Free Hot Water Proposal For Whitefield
September 18, 2008 by Noel
Filed under Green Living
The costs of using fossil fuel can get pretty high. There is indeed a way to save on that as we all know. However, this is the first time that the Whitefield School Committee had learnt about it and they did through a proposal they got during a meeting. They were informed that hot water could be available free of charge if they had a solar power system in their school.
The proposal that the Whitefield School Committee had received was actually from C.M. McCormick and Sons, a company in the locality. This is headed by Steve McCormick and in a report, he had disclosed that they had already been installing solar power systems all across the area. They install heat pipe solar collectors and this is a group of vacuum tubes with a water manifold that is insulated. With that, the whole contraption is able to take in the radiation from the sun and that is then converted into heat. And that is then used to heat up the water. Nice, right?
It is good that schools are looking into this sort of thing. Not only does it put our tax dollars to a genuine good use, but it also puts the technology in front of the children. Even if its not first hand, it is there, visible, and becomes second nature to the children.
History has proven that growing up in a slum produces “slummy” citizens, while growing up in an effluent neighborhood produces more “effluent” citizens. Getting environmentally friendly concepts into schools is bound to produce adults who are more inclined to be green.