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(HIT) - Heightened energy prices mean searching out the brightest and best energy sources. Why not start by adding an element of sunshine to your home renovation and restoration projects?

Using reflective pipes up to 40 ft. in length, Greg Miller, owner of The SunPipe Company, Inc., in Elgin, Illinois, has been helping homes and business bring in free natural light for two decades. Newly enlightened homeowners benefit from brightened indoor settings without the summer heat and the winter heat loss which plague traditional skylights.

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	This once dungeon-like stairwell is now permanently bright with a SunLight Pipe that performs as well today as when it was originally installed in 1991.

SunPipe’s simple design blends healthy sunlight with any décor and in the case of the previously dismally dark stairway shown here, provides safe passage from dawn to dawn.

Sunshine brightens kitchens, shows off the finest dishware and culinary genius, and starts the day with a healthy dose of Vitamin D. New studies on the sunshine (Vitamin D) underscore the need for appropriate solar exposure as key to a longer and healthier life—even among those with previous sun-damaged skin.

By using daylight to illuminate interior spaces, it has been reported that we could eliminate a major amount of climate changing CO2 in indoor settings, and the heat which they introduce. Can there be any possible justification for not taking advantage of this safe, available, and nonpolluting natural light source?

The highly reflective hollow pipe reflects daylight through the roof and attic into sun-starved rooms. According to Miller, 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 type of day (i.e. sunny or overcast), naturally effect the SunPipe’s brightness.



Stairwells and windowless upstairs hallways, the most popular SunPiped locations in a 2-story home are equally well lighted.

Besides the obvious benefit in energy efficiency and savings, natural light adds a unique dimension to every decorating scheme–opening up possibilities for using previously unusable space. Approximately eighty percent of Greg Millers clients are homeowners, but don’t tell it to his industrial and institutional customer base–presently including offices, airports, a brewery, schools, warehouses, government buildings, and even a zoo and three wineries.

The typical SunPipe costs $400 to $600 installed and will prevent over 3 tons of CO2 from entering our air over the next 10 years. All this while providing healthy, natural interior illumination, far superior to any electric light in color and intensity. It just makes good common sense to implement such technology.

SunPipe customers are so happy, Miller believes SunPipe^® will become a standard component of residential and industrial construction. And since it reduces the need for electric lighting, it earns the distinctive role of being a truly earth friendly product. "You can make daylight a natural phenomenon in your home–while helping to cut the overall electrical load.

For further information call them toll free at 1-800-844-4786 or go to http://www.sunpipe.com.

Courtesy: Home Improvement News and Information Center

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