The mighty center of our solar system

The Sun is the Earth's source of eco-positive, unlimited, free and safe atomic energy! And we now have great new products to collect that free gift from God's generous star!

 Advantages of solar energy:

• Eco-Friendly
• Unlimited supply
• Predictable
• Availible everywhere, year around
• Very low maintenance
• Fast system pay-back

Harvesting solar energy is relativally simple; expose an absorptive material towards the sun and find a way to transfer that energy to a storage or workload.However, though the concept is simple in principle, it has proven difficult and expensive in practice.  Until now!

Our panels use energy collection and transfer methods and is among the most effective and cost efficient designs availible using vaccum insulated, solar collector bulbs that are over 95% efficient in solar energy collection.

How does it work?

So now you're probably thinking: "Wow, thats cool but I don't understand it."

The light from the sun carries radiant energy. This radiant energy has no heat in itself but rather heats things it touches. If you have ever been near a radiant heater you might have noticed how the air in front of the element was barely warmer than the rest of the room, but the floor (and maybe your pant-leg) was quite hot to the touch. That is the principle these solar systems rely on and is why they work regardless of outside temperature. Using thermo-siphon, cold water is drawn into each bulb from the bottom of the boiler's water jacket and as is it heated, rises out the top of the header into top of the boiler's water jacket.

What are the applications for this type of solar collector?

Domestic hot water is the primary benefit of this technology. Recent innovations have enabled them to also be used very effectively as a supplimentary heat supply for outdoor water based solid-fuel furnaces.When used in series or parallel systems it is possible to provide a large portion of heating needs.

Who invented this? 

 1. In the Beginning...

Since the beginning of Creation humans have been using solar energy to dry or dehydrate things such as clothes, food and to make salt from the sea and salty lakes. Only as late as the last millennium was the first commercially produced solar heater invented and patented (US Patent # 4,084,578 ) in March 18, 1976 by Mr.Toshihiro Ishibashi of Kosai, Japan. This first generation heater was a single valve flat plate metal encased in glass panel connected to an insulated thermo-siphon water heater. Given this was the first generation solar water heater, inherent weaknesses are plenty, mainly its single valve bottleneck weakness: one cold in and one hot out. This inherent weakness meant that this solar water heater is only feasible where sunshine is plentiful all year round and also needs to incorporate an electrical immersion water heater as a back-up. Since this is a pressurized system the system is also susceptible to leaks and worse, tank explosion should the pressure release valve fail to work. In conclusion, the first Generation Flat Plate Single Valve Thermo-siphon Solar Heater, though still produced and sold today (royalty free) is both ineffective and therefore costly.

2. Evacuated Glass Tube Heater Tubes
In March 19, 1985, Mr. Billy Hunter of California, USA,  invented and patented (US Patent # 4,505,261) his metal heater tubes filled with a low boiling point liquid encased in evacuated glass tubes. His indirect heating system although effective even in temperate countries are however costly and complicated. High maintenance cost is a given and not being thermo-siphonic in design, water pumps also need to be installed to remove the hot water away from the heat exchanger.

3. Malaysia's Teoh Siang Teik "Microsolar"
On January 18, 2000, Mr Teoh Siang Teik, a Malaysian, patented his Tubular Multi-valve Direct Injection Infra-red Solar Heater (US Patent # 6,014,968). This 3rd generation thermo-siphon water heater's novelty is 16 inner cold water tubes in 16 outer heating tubes that delivers hotter and higher volumes of heated water, panel for panel, dollar for dollar. This breakthrough in solar water heating solved all the inherent weaknesses of Mr. Ishibashi's 1st Generation Solar Water Heater without the cost and maintenance penalty of Hunter's 2nd Generation's Vacuum Heating Tube Indirect Solar Water Heating System.

4. China's Tsinghua University by professor Yin Zhiqiang
In the late 1980's, Professor Yin Zhiqiang of China's Tsinghua University invented the all glass "Evacuated-Tube Solar Collector" (ETSC), China invention patent 851001424. The all-glass evacuated collector tubes being made of an abundant element (silica-glass) became an instant success due to their high efficiency, low cost, low heat loss and long life span. Because the heat loss coefficient of the water heater is less than 1.0 (Wm-20C-1), the solar water heater is able to be utilized year-round in cold climates. The tube's typical stagnation temperature is 200°C, Solar absorbance (AM1.5) is 0.93, emittance (80°C) 0.06 and Heat loss coefficient <0.85W/(m2°C). It was not until the turn of the new millennium that this 4th Generation ETSC Solar Water Heater was perfected for commercial sales and exports.

5. The First Hybrid Solar/Boiler System by American Inventors Mike and Dave Nyhof.

On November 20, 2010 Mike Nyhof of the USA invented the concept of combining solar and solid fuel by putting a firebox inside a solar water tank which eventualy led to the SunMor Solar System. Combining solar energy with solid fuel to heat water, the first hybrid system was born. The solar system takes advantage of the sun during non-heating months to heat domestic hot water and assists solid fuel burning for heating a structure in the remaining cold months.

Mike’s brother Dave, owner of Nature’s Comfort LLC, was already building wood and coal boilers which offered a perfect opportunity to work together to produce solar/solid fuel water heater hybrid. Their goal was to find the most cost effective and efficient results, giving customers endless hot water and cutting down the use of solid fuel.

Combining the two using thermo-siphon for circulation worked the best with several great advantages and also solved a number of other issues including eliminating the need for a pump, controls, overheating problems and low water issues.

Using the best triple coated evacuated collector tubes with our high efficiency boilers was an idea America was in need of. The SunMor SM-H60 (60 tube panel paired with a NCB-120 or NCB-175) hit the market July 12, 2011.