It’s amazing how warm the sun can make you feel, even on a cold winter day such as today.
As long as the wind isn’t blowing too much you can feel pretty warmed up from the sun on a bright cloudless day. The radiative heating that the sun gives can warm things up quite well, and this is really noticeable when the sun goes behind a cloud for a bit. I was out on the beach yesterday trying to get a little sun and I noticed that each time the sun went behind a cloud I would feel much colder. The sun is really far from the earth but it still acts as a radiant heater, very similar to the portable space heaters you would buy at a local business. The sun is much more powerful than these heaters, but the fact that it is 93 million miles away makes it very similar to these types of radiant heaters found in many homes. I would love to get some solar heating panels installed on my rooftop to help cut the costs of heating in my flat. I need to go to the local contractor and ask them what it would cost to get solar installed on my roof. I live in a big building and the whole roof is exposed to the sun quite well and could serve as a good base for some solar panels. I could get rid of my hot water heater and also heat the rooms with the power of the sun. I wish every house had them.
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