SOLARBEAM CONCENTRATOR VS. THE COMPETITION

Is there competition to the SolarBeam Concentrator? No. The facts below give enough evidence to prove that the SolarBeam hot water system is unmatched in efficiency and price and here’s why:

• SolarBeam tracks the sun continuously no matter the time or the season. This provides 100% direct perpendicular sun collection throughout the entire day, maximizing efficiency. An additional bonus is the solar radiation reflected off the snow in the winter.
• SolarBeam’s solar collector is smaller than those of other systems. As such, the heat loss is much lower due to the decreased surface area. Compare the sizes of SolarBeam’s collector (10” x 10”) to that of the evacuated tube design (110 ft2). But don’t think SolarBeam’s small size isn’t powerful; this efficient design collects 13kW or 44,000 BTUs per hour!
• Passive mounting systems miss much of the sun’s energy each day, even in their most optimal conditions. Stationary collectors only harvest at peak efficiencies during a short time in the day. If the sun is obscured by clouds during those short couple of hours, the day’s peak collection has been missed. That’s harvestable energy savings gone forever. SolarBeam uses a patent pending tracking system that follows the sun, so it is always in peak-efficiency position.
• SolarBeam does not suffer from stagnated heat conditions as flat panel and evacuated tube systems do.  Flat panels and evacuated tubes are, by their very nature, susceptible to heat stagnation.  This occurs when the heat collected cannot be extracted from the collectors because the application has all the heat it requires.  The tubes and panels cannot move out of the sun and as a result continue to collect energy, which can be damaging and dangerous.  The SolarBeam automatically turns the collector away from the sun until more energy is required, at that time it realigns to collect more energy.
• Due to the SolarBeam’s superior design, its cost is lower and its efficiency is higher.  That gives SolarBeam a shorter payback period than flat panel and evacuated tube systems.  It starts putting money back in your pockets as soon as it starts working, and will pay for itself in about 6 years, not including any government rebates available.  That’s much better than the 15-20 year payback of other systems.