Solar Water Heating Is Rising In Popularity

China is having no problems with using solar energy for hot water heaters, as they now produce and use about 60 per cent of the world's solar hot water heaters. It is said the much of the solar water heating boom in China began about 20 years ago.

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Ming put together around 1,000 units, mostly selling them to friends and neighbors. The word got around and Huang scaled up his business until he set up his company, Himin. It was totally self-financed and is now the biggest solar water heater manufacturer in the world.

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One puzzling factor is that the rest of the world has not quite embraced the solar water heating quite like China has. One reason given is that China has basically zero building codes that regulate solar water heaters. In China, whole roofs of apartments have labyrinths of pipes, gadgets, and solar cells.

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Here in the US a homeowner will have to contend with bureaucratic nightmares of local requirements that can get expensive. These permits can vary from city to city and can run more than $2,000 in some cases.

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The technology is another issue where in the US the most common system is an indirect system with a pump. The thermosiphon system requires that the storage tank is kept on the roof, where in the US most people have storage tanks in their garage or basement.

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Nevertheless, the market in America is beginning to wake up. The market is still small, with only 8 million solar systems sold each year, but with a 30 percent federal tax credit, the rise in the installation of solar hot water units in on the increase.

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