Solar and Wind Power

It warms our faces and grows our food; solar energy is our life blood and gives us most of that we need to endure. Using its potential, however, has escaped the worlds populace, or at least until relatively recently. Exploiting the sun’s full potency may be a long way into the future, but until engineering shows us the true possibilities of solar power we can use what we have as a matter of necessity, economic need and personal responsibility.

Maybe we are fairly happy with the status quo of today. Maybe you feel all is fine and you don’t feel the need to change a system that’s worked for over a century. If you do, consider a few of these benefits to solar power and you may just recognize its potential in a somewhat more responsible, yet selfish, light.

But Maybe I don’t care about the environment? Maybe all in the world is o.k. as far as you are concerned. The last thing you care about are plants, fresh air and clean water. Heck, the water turns up every time you turn on the faucet, the furnace comes on when it’s cold, the light switch brings you a bright light. What is there to worry about? Consider that this is just the problem. If you don’t care for the your surroundings, the faucet may not bring you pure drinking water, the heat may not go on and the car certainly will not start. If the planet is kept immaculate and left to do what it was supposed to do, everything would continue to work fine. But get in its way and everything you thought was hunky-dory won’t be for long.

Financial savings – One of the most amazing things about caring for the suns ability to do its job is that it can really save you money in the long run. Once solar modules are purchased and installed, they cost very little, if anything to operate. In most instances, the government will even help to pay for the upfront costs of installing the system through tax incentives. Additionally, power companies in most regions are required to pay you for energy that you have generated and not used. Yes, you read correctly, the power company will pay you!

Profitable – In most instances, 70% of the northern hemisphere can produce more than enough solar electricity to run and heat their homes with existing solar systems. This means that whatever is left over goes back to the power grid if you so choose. Just think of your energy meter running backwards. The extra energy you need for that cloudy day is stored in ever more efficient batteries. Most current users claim that the use of solar power systems only takes a little thought in electricity management.

Take Yourself Right Off the power grid – Depending upon how you feel about the topic, one of the better reasons to use solar modules is that you can remove yourself from the ‘power grid’ so to speak. Many people don’t feel like being a part of the social collective that is interconnectivity. Going solar takes you away from this one aspect of community and puts you closer to self reliance which is a great thing.

Versatility – Even though the solar power industry has come a long way in providing electricity, heating and a whole array of other services there is a really long way to go. This is not to indicate, however, that solar power is not currently versatile in form and function. Solar panels can currently be formed into thin sheets for vehicle top electric powered cars. They can cover rooftops and not really be noticed, unlike those 1990s units. Costs are also coming down, almost as fast as the flat screen TVs of today.

Personal responsibility – Looking Past the cost benefits and environmental benefits that solar electricity brings you should consider using it because you are part of a larger social order that will procreate. The human species has not been around for all that long and is doing its best to end its run in one way or another. If you would like to give your children’s children a far better shot at continuing the species’ run on this planet, solar electricity is one small contribution that you can make all by your self.

One way to effectuate the goal of maintain all the creature comforts of home working satisfactorily is by using other sources of power generation like solar, and not generating nasty things that get in the way of the earth doing its job. Most present-day sources of power include carbon based fossil fuels such as heating oil which are derived from fossilized plants. Environmentally responsible energy, heat and daily transport come from living or energised sources like h2O and O2 molecules. The Sun’s rays can be turned directly into electricity and used to power your suv, heat your home and generate your light. But to make the process work, you need to be able to be in the direct path of the sun, which means caring for the environment and not getting in its way.