What In The World Is A SunPipe?
The Ultimate Home Improvement Resource Is Closer Than You May Think
(HIT) - Affordable, energy free, and offering endless decorating possibilities … natural sunlight tops the list of safe environmental products that can make a home really sparkle. The SunPipe® is how you harness and deliver this natural phenomena to the darkest spaces in your home.
By using daylight to illuminate interior spaces, environmentally conscious homeowners can not only reduce climate changing CO2 in indoors settings, but also the heat which they produce.
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The Sun Pipe is an extremely simple and effective "Daylighting" product. It collects and "pipes" sunshine down highly-polished, silver-lined tubes installed in your roof. SunPipe® will deliver every bit of light the sky has to offer … even on cloudy days, and with no moving parts, no wiring is needed, no electricity is used and there is nothing to wear out. |
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Using simple reflective hollow-pipe delivery systems known as Sun Pipes, homes and businesses harness and use free natural light without the summer heat and the winter heat loss which plague traditional skylights.
Instead of just putting a window on your roof and letting the sun shine in, the super-reflective pipe reflects daylight from above your roof, through your attic space to a ceiling mounted diffuser. SunPipe® helps keep homes and businesses cool in summer because only diffuse light enters rooms. The use of an airtight seal on ceiling diffusers, additionally helps room stay warm in the winter.
A Non-Polluting Light Source
While SunPipes up to 40 feet in length, surprisingly, have been helping people bring free natural light inside for nearly two decades, The Sun Pipe Company in Elgin, Illinois, pioneered the concept of using the sun as a safe, available and nonpolluting natural light source indoors.
Greg Miller introduced the SunPipe® design in the late 1990’s explaining that when daylight hits the diffuser, it glows with the equivalence of up to 900, 1500, or even 3000 watts worth of light depending on the diameter of the SunPipe (9", 13", and 21" respectively). Season, the time of day, and the type of day (i.e. sunny or overcast), naturally effect the SunPipe’s brightness.
The typical SunPipe® costs $400 to $600 installed and is estimated to prevent over 3 tons of CO2 from entering our air over the next 10 years. All this, according to the late founder, "while providing healthy, natural interior illumination superior to any electric light in color and intensity."
Besides the obvious benefits in energy efficiency and savings, natural light adds a unique dimension to every decorating scheme—opening up possibilities for using previously unusable space.
SunPipe® is sold through contractors, handymen and small independent retailers across the country. For additional information or to locate the nearest SunPipe retailer, visit http://www.sunpipe.com or call toll-free 1-800-844-4786.
Courtesy: Home Improvement News and Information Center
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