SunPipe® is not
Energy Efficient...
SunPipe is Energy-Free!
Good News:
SunPipe offers unsurpassed lighting and HVAC energy savings to
housing and industry by supplementing or replacing daytime electric
lighting and skylights with a new breed of natural lighting product.
The combination of daylighting, energy-efficient electric lighting, and an electric light control system offers everyone the optimum illumination system, something we at SunPipe refer to as "Opti-LumeTM."
Electric lighting, together with its affect on HVAC, accounts for up to 60 percent of a commercial property's electric bill. Since electricity is the most expensive form of energy, this can equate to 80% of the property's total energy costs. Natural lighting saves the majority of this energy cost, not to mention natural resources and environmental contaminants, yielding a more substantial future for us all. We are wasting electricity, consuming fossil fuels and pouring pollutants into our atmosphere needlessly. Frankly, we should be smart enough to satisfy our need for electricity without causing any pollution what-so-ever.
Bad News:
It's already too late to avoid global warming problems, but we should
certainly stop adding fuel to the fire. There will soon be a global
wake-up call regarding our lack of environmental responsibility. As
global warming causes Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves to break away
(it's already happening), sea levels will rise, causing thousands of
square miles of coastal lands to be flooded. Florida would all but
disappear. Each month during 1998 set record high temperatures. Until
1998, 1975 saw more tornadoes than any year on record. 1998 saw twice
the tornadoes that 1975 saw. Extreme weather conditions (ie. super
intense hurricanes, severe drought and floods, etc.) are in store for
us all, but the sooner we start being personally responsible for our
impact on our ecosystem, the less bad it will be for our children.
For more information on global climate change see worldwatch.org.
More Good News - SunPipe Can Help... Significantly!:
Consider the retired residential couple who spend a considerable
amount of time at home with a SunPipe-13 lighting up their kitchen
(where 60% of SunPipe-13's go). This SunPipe® typically replaces
the burning of 200 to 500 watts of electric lights for 3 to 7 hours
per day. For this example we'll assume a 300 watt savings for 5 Hrs.
per day, 5 days per week. This would result in a reduction of the
following power plant emissions per year based on a 390 kWh yearly
energy savings:
Carbon Dioxide (Greenhouse Gas) - 702 Lbs.
Nitrogen Dioxide (Smog) - 1.95 Lbs.
Sulfur Dioxide (Acid Rain) - 2.34 Lbs
or
High-Level Nuclear Waste (Serious trouble for our great grand kids) -
0.468 oz.
Most people go to work in the morning and are not burning electric lights at home during the day. Fine! Have your employer install SunPipes at work. Office settings actually derive more benefits from SunPipes than do residential settings in the form of better visual acuity, higher levels of alertness, fewer sick days and overall more positive worker attitude... all of which yields higher personal productivity. And, since energy savings are even greater in an office setting, so too are environmental savings.
Simple Things are the Best Things:
The SunPipe is an extremely simple and effective "Daylighting"
product. It will deliver every bit of light the sky has to offer...
even on cloudy days (wait till you see the soft glow from the light
of a full moon!). We can tell you from our experience... you'll
appreciate your SunPipe more five years after installation than you
will during the first year. Unlike most other things we buy,
SunPipe's the type of purchase that gets better with time.
The Bottom Line:
SunPipe customers love the way this product fills dark rooms with
brilliant natural light... And SunPipe's unsurpassed quality means
continued high-output performance year after year with no leaks. But
don't take our word for it. Install one for yourself and see what we
mean. You will be amazed! Take a look at our
SunPipe Testimonials.
Thank You for your interest in SunPipe.
SunPipe Your Life!
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