Solar Energy Basics
Understanding Solar Energy Basics
Solar energy technology is ready to appear on your rooftop. Buildings with integrated solar electric (or photovoltaic “PV) technologies can be attractive and affordable.
The alternative energies that most money has been invested in so far are solar energy and wind energy. One of the reasons that these energy sources are so popular is because of the availability of the fuels and the amount of research already conducted into their viability and possible uses.
Solar power is probably the most effective and available energy that homeowners can use to help do their bit for the renewable energy cause,and save a lot of money in the process.
Photovoltaic Tiles are easily and quickly installed on the roof, in the garden, on the shed or just about anywhere that you have a little spare room; and they aren't the eye sores that they once were.
Solar panels can be used to heat water, your house, your pool or for providing your entire house with electricity. They are without a doubt the easiest way for you to help protect the environment, save money, and even make a profit.
The United States currently relies heavily on coal, oil, and natural gas for its energy. Fossil fuels are nonrenewable, that is, they draw on finite resources that will eventually dwindle, becoming too expensive or too environmentally damaging to retrieve. In contrast, renewable energy resources- such as solar energy and wind power- are constantly replenished and will never run out.
Most renewable energy comes either directly or indirectly from the sun. Sunlight, or solar energy, can be used directly for heating and lighting homes, for generating electricity, and for hot water heating, and solar cooling.
The sun’s heat also drives the winds, whose energy is captured with wind turbines. Then, the winds and the sun’s heat cause water to evaporate. When this water vapor turns into rain or snow and flows downhill into rivers or streams, its energy can be captured using hydropower.Renewable energy provides many important benefits including:
Environmental benefits
• Energy for the future
• Jobs and the economy
• Energy security
• Low or eliminated electric and gas bills
• Lower fuel costs
Over the past century the combustion process, the process of fossil fuels, has been retained because it provided great profits to Big Oil, Big Energy, Big Banking and Big Government, through fuel taxes; a very big conspiracy to rip off global consumers.
Fast burn technology, developed by Canadian, Charles Pogue, in the late nineteen forties, bought and suppressed by automakers, is a fifty five year old solution to the extortion of Big Oil Companies.
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