|
|
Article: Hot Water.
- Article from:
- Market Latin America
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Media Contact Resources, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
It has been known for some time that the sun can potentially provide our planet with a seemingly limitless supply of energy that can accomplish many of the tasks now given to fossil fuel energy. Popularly, solar energy means electricity generated from sunlight-still an expensive commodity.
Less well known are heating solutions. One in particular-generating hot water from the sun's radiation as opposed to electrically heating-has begun to take root in Latin America on a large scale.
According to a recent review of the solar water heater market distributed by the Inter Press Service International (IPS) and appearing as a recent posting on the World ...