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WHY USE SOLARBEAM?

The SolarBeam Concentrator is a solar hot water system that provides 44,000 BTU’s per/hour for your most demanding applications. That includes facility heating as well as process functions. One SolarBeam can provide more kW and BTUs per day than conventional hot water panels. You would need 15 flat panels to equal the energy generated by 1 SolarBeam.

The SolarBeam (solar hot water system) does not use glass for its reflector, it uses a durable, metallic reflective surface which requires very little cleaning and will withstand tough climates. This solar hot water system is highly affordable for the residential and commercial market. The SolarBeam costs between $20,500 US and $22,000 US depending on the application. In addition, it can collect 13kW of heat from a collector that is the size of 10″ x 10″. Other technologies, such as evacuated tube systems, need large amounts of space to produce 13kW of heat, because of their lower efficiency.

Due to SolarBeam’s innovative design, it requires 98-262% less space than conventional solar flat plate panels or solar evacuated tube panels. SolarBeam uses a patent-pending celestial tracking system to harvest the suns energy throughout the entire day. Traditional flat panels only reach their peak efficiency for about 2 hours a day, because they are stationary.

To see the benefits of sun tracking, check out the video showing the SolarBeam’s unique tracking system.

http://www.youtube.com/solartronenergy

SolarBeam can be used in facilities that use hot water for food and beverage processing, hotels that require hot water for laundry, and many more applications. The solar hot water system can easily bring up water temperature from 4 C to 90 C which dramatically reduces production costs. The SolarBeam can be used for air conditioning when used in conjunction with an absorption chiller. That gives the solar hot water system the opportunity to reduce climate control costs in both winter and summer. Imagine the annual savings! SolarBeam easily interfaces with existing hot water systems. This means that installing SolarBeam will not require major design changes – which would add significantly to your costs. Also, this compatibility ensures quick installation with minimal installation costs compared to solar hot water panels.

SOLARBEAM CONCENTRATOR VS. THE COMPETITION

Is there competition to the SolarBeam Concentrator? No. The facts below give enough evidence to prove that the SolarBeam hot water system is unmatched in efficiency and price and here’s why:

• SolarBeam tracks the sun continuously no matter the time or the season. This provides 100% direct perpendicular sun collection throughout the entire day, maximizing efficiency. An additional bonus is the solar radiation reflected off the snow in the winter.
• SolarBeam’s solar collector is smaller than those of other systems. As such, the heat loss is much lower due to the decreased surface area. Compare the sizes of SolarBeam’s collector (10” x 10”) to that of the evacuated tube design (110 ft2). But don’t think SolarBeam’s small size isn’t powerful; this efficient design collects 13kW or 44,000 BTUs per hour!
• Passive mounting systems miss much of the sun’s energy each day, even in their most optimal conditions. Stationary collectors only harvest at peak efficiencies during a short time in the day. If the sun is obscured by clouds during those short couple of hours, the day’s peak collection has been missed. That’s harvestable energy savings gone forever. SolarBeam uses a patent pending tracking system that follows the sun, so it is always in peak-efficiency position.
• SolarBeam does not suffer from stagnated heat conditions as flat panel and evacuated tube systems do.  Flat panels and evacuated tubes are, by their very nature, susceptible to heat stagnation.  This occurs when the heat collected cannot be extracted from the collectors because the application has all the heat it requires.  The tubes and panels cannot move out of the sun and as a result continue to collect energy, which can be damaging and dangerous.  The SolarBeam automatically turns the collector away from the sun until more energy is required, at that time it realigns to collect more energy.
• Due to the SolarBeam’s superior design, its cost is lower and its efficiency is higher.  That gives SolarBeam a shorter payback period than flat panel and evacuated tube systems.  It starts putting money back in your pockets as soon as it starts working, and will pay for itself in about 6 years, not including any government rebates available.  That’s much better than the 15-20 year payback of other systems.

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  PAYBACK / RETURN ON INVESTMENT

  One SolarBeam Concentrator can produce peak 13 kW/hour or 44,000 BTUs of heat each hour. If you were to factor an average year of 8 hours of sun per day, you would achieve 104 kW or 352,000 BTUs in a day. Compared to existing solar hot water systems such as evacuated tube or standard solar flat panel systems, theses systems have a payback of 15 – 20 years for compared to the SolarBeam Concentrator of 6 years.
  The SolarBeam becomes a winner since you would need double the amount of solar hot water panels to match the Solar Beam Concentrator because of the low efficiency of the panel due to the static position and lower efficiency.

  It is very easy to see the instant savings for the SolarBeam solar concentrator system. No other system in the world is as efficient and provides immediate savings as the SolarBeam. Solar hot water heating now can be used for home heating and for manufacturing facilities.