<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/19d5ba3d-123a-4440-8c85-d2636d9d2cba/15882968-9510-4015-AC89-8E3EFB9E5EC2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://omachron.com/articles/2008/07/11/solar-pool-heating-free-energy-or-maybe-not/" href="http://omachron.com/articles/2008/07/11/solar-pool-heating-free-energy-or-maybe-not/" style="font-size: 11px;">omachron.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://omachron.com/articles/2008/07/11/solar-pool-heating-free-energy-or-maybe-not/"><H2><A href="http://omachron.com/articles/2008/07/11/solar-pool-heating-free-energy-or-maybe-not/">Solar Pool Heating. Free energy. Or maybe not …</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://omachron.com/articles/2008/07/11/solar-pool-heating-free-energy-or-maybe-not/"><P>Solar energy should be free…right?…maybe not. Depending on the system you chose solar energy can still cost you a lot of money and waste a lot of electricity!!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://omachron.com/articles/2008/07/11/solar-pool-heating-free-energy-or-maybe-not/"><P>Consider the capital cost of your solar energy system and the cost of operating your solar collection system when comparing different technologies.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://omachron.com/articles/2008/07/11/solar-pool-heating-free-energy-or-maybe-not/"><P>When you save money and energy, both you and the environment win.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://omachron.com/articles/2008/07/11/solar-pool-heating-free-energy-or-maybe-not/"><P>Solar energy collection systems such as solar swimming pool heaters typically require a pump to operate. This pump is driven by electricity. Therefore, electrical power (energy) is needed to collect the solar energy. This electricity use must be factored into your considerations when determining the REAL payback of a solar energy capture system.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/15882968-9510-4015-AC89-8E3EFB9E5EC2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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