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Solar energy is a wonderful renewable energy resource that can be harnessed for your home right now!  Solar heating systems designed to heat your home as well as applications for lighting are already possible.  Using solar energy instead of conventional fossil fuels helps reduce the amount of pollution in the air and helps the earth in the long run.

Solar heating can be produced in many ways.  Most commonly, solar heating uses thermal masses to collect heat energy then distributed it to water or to your home.  This way you can provide heat for your water, home or both with the help of the sun.

Getting your home to use solar lighting is also a great way to decrease the electric costs of your home.  Harnessing sunlight and storing it for later use in special batteries allows you to light your home without having to use fossil fuels while saving valuable money.

The capacity of the material to hold heat is know as its Thermal Mass – in this case materials used for solar heating. Commonly cement, water, stone and oil are used.

In temperate and desert regions of  the planet, stone has been used since time immemorial for Solar Heating and solar lighting. During the day the stone absorbs the heat into itself, keeping the interiors cool and during the night they radiate this heat back into the atmosphere, the modern Solar Heating uses this principle for modern homes too.

What is exciting is that this same Solar Heating principle can be used to keep the homes warm in the colder countries. The placement, size and material used along with other factors like daylight, shade, etc; need to be applied properly for the Solar Heating to work to the optimum. When properly designed, the thermal mass maintains the ambient temperatures in a comfortable range..