For installing solar hot water heaters, it is hard to beat the convenience of those new fangled Gator Bites from Lowes Hardware or the Shark Bites from Home Depot. Yes those plumbing couplers are very expensive, but for the convenience, speed of assembly and pleasing cosmetic appearance ; I know of nothing better.

To install, you simply cut your PEX tubing to a suitable length place the white flanged tube provided with the coupler into the bare end of the PEX and then shove the PEX tube into the coupler. Leak … not a chance. The first connection I ever made was perfect. Need something to mate to the older thin wall PEX in houses built 20 years ago … no problem. Wanna mate PEX to copper pipe … no problem assemble same as PEX to PEX.

We at nuSun do not sell the Gator Bite or Shark Bite, but we do sell the solar hot water heaters that you can use to try out a DIY plumbing job and save some energy to boot.

I suspect that most everyone has now heard of T. Boone Pickens and his plan to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Here is the link to his web site.
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Join us at nuSun, inc. in trying to solve our huge, huge problem

Does not matter whether John McCain or Barack Obama wins the White House; we need a massive program on the order of the 1930s New Deal, the 1940s Manhattan Project or the 1960s Moon Landing Program to (1.) rebuild America’s infrastructure, (2.) to go all out to conserve petroleum/energy and (3.) do everything we can, as quickly as we can to eliminate the need for mid east oil.

Infrastructure rebuilding and development ought to include roads that make space for new smaller and unusual vehicles, bridge repair, mass transit design and build, and development of broad band internet service, which can help to reduce the need for travel.

There needs to be a federal mandate for teaching conservation in schools at all levels, at the workplace and massive TV and internet campaigns to educate the masses about the necessity for saving energy. It is time for America to get away from it’s wasteful roots. Gasoline should be further taxed to help pay for infrastructure development. Large SUVs and “play trucks” should be heavily taxed and discouraged if not eliminated altogether.

Finally we need to get serious about switching to nuclear power. We need to bury the waste until such a time as it is possible to recycle it or shoot it into space. We need to get serious about full electric and fuel/electric hybrid vehicles and nix the insanity of performance at all costs. We need to end the stupidity of food based ethanol because of its inefficiency and because of its horrendous impact on food prices and food shortages.

Doing these things will certainly snap the economy out of its disastrous slide into oblivion and will do much to help solve the climate change challenge.

I am convinced that the down economy and the mood of the nation is such that it will be relatively easy to get the country behind such an undertaking and the results can be dramatic and can happen relatively quickly.

Will they have the guts to do it or will they blow the opportunity just as Mr. Bush did in 2001? That is the question.

We are doing what we can at nuSun, inc. Go there and see.

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I hear it said that there is an oil bubble in the market place and I think the contrarians are correct. The speculators are running the show now just as they did when the mortgage bubble burst. Soon the faltering economy in the USA and it’s subsequent down draft that will be felt in China will reduce the demand for oil temporarily. The weak dollar will eventually rebound as the current rascals in Washington are sent packing in the coming election. That will further cause the price of oil to fall and the process will feed on itself and all will run for the doors at the same time and “viola’, we have a bursting bubble. The timing I don’t know, but I think it will be sooner than 18 months from today.

What does it mean for alternative energy, well it will not be good in the short run, but the smart money will pay no attention to this false run on peak oil and will go right on installing their solar hot water heaters and wind turbines, so that they will be ready when the next run on oil occurs in about 10 years.

nuSun, inc. will go right on selling hot water heaters, power monitors and other alternae energy devices.

There is more to installing a solar hot water heater than just connecting up the collector to the pump and tank and turning on the hot water sigot. You can easily damage the tubes, your home and even get hurt if you are not careful.

Then there are the horror stories from people who expected more performance from their heaters than they are getting.

nuSun, inc. has the water heater systems, and we have installed enough to see both the advantages and the perils of improper installation.