Renewable Energy Is Now an Economically Viable Alternative
The foundation for all life on Earth is the life-giving light from the sun. This light not only keeps the planet warmed up, it also powers the photosynthetic process of the green plants. And the plants, directly or indirectly, provide us with the food we eat.
By contrast, human technology has come to rely on an abundant supply of fossil energy – coal and oil – which derives from the remnants of plants and other organisms that lived on the Earth many eons ago. The stored supply of such material is now used up at a tremendous rate, and known oil reserves will be depleted in a near future.
Also, there are severe environmental consequences tied to the usage of fossil fuels. The chief problem is that it causes a global warming, known as the “greenhouse effect”.
We must therefore return to directly using the abundantly flowing energy from the sun – more about that at www.SunWindNow.com. The problem with this approach has been the lack of efficient methods for collecting sunlight into a usable form – besides chopping down trees and burning them.
Photovoltaic cells, which directly convert sunlight into electric power, have been around for decades, but have been much too expensive to be widely used.
In recent years, however, technology has advanced to the point where cheap solar panels are now becoming a reality. For example, there is a California-based company called Nanosolar which has patented a process for making thin-film solar panels that roll off an assembly line, kind of a printing press.
You could for instance use this material to make solar shingles for the roof of your own house, and become your own utility company! Indeed, solar power (along with other forms of renewable energy like wind generators) is the future of our world. We need to phase out the shortsighted use of coal and oil as soon as possible – and it can be done.
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