Our Energy Future Comes From The Sun

When you look at the difficulties faced in Japan following the huge earthquake which was itself followed by an enormous tsunami which knocked out several nuclear powerplants and their support services you have to wonder if nuclear power is such a good idea. Yes it is technically very clever and the facilities have been substantially undamaged by the actual earthquake but the tsunami apparently caused failures in the support systems that have led to the scary prospect of nuclear meltdown and the potential hazards of nuclear radioactivity leaks.

Do we really want to have such a potentially dangerous system sitting anywhere near human habitation?

The long term costs of nuclear energy have always been seriously underestimated. When we were first aware of the potential for nuclear power we were told the electricity would be almost free. The most expensive cost of this electricity would be the cost of printing out the bill. Ah, the lies told to justify things are quite shocking.

The cost of building and maintaining the nuclear facilities is huge but the cost of disposing of and managing the waste products for, perhaps a thousand years or more is incalculable. How can anybody have any idea what it will cost in a thousand years to even employ a security guard at the entrance to any disposal site. Let alone know how much the cost of ensuring the site remains safe and secure.

Solar energy is free. The only costs are in designing, manufacturing and maintaining the solar energy panels. They last for years and there are no waste products apart from the panels when they do reach the end of their life.

Solar farms may be expensive to set up initially but they will produce power at low cost for many years afterwards. They offer no threat to the local community and you can install solar panels on every roof in a city. There are limitations since power can only be produced during daylight hours but that could be overcome by suitable storage systems which can generate power overnight.

Solar power is the future. We just have to change focus from short term profits to long term sustainability and invest for the futrue. For us and for our children.

The Future Of Solar Energy

Solar energy has many advantages and will without question be a significant part of our energy supplies in the future. We need new energy sources if we are not to run out of power and solar energy can supply that need for free.

The whole of the planet Earth is bathed in solar energy every day and you can argue that almost all the energy we use comes originally from solar energy. The oil and gas we use was produced thanks to plants growing and dying in sunlight millions of years ago. The rain collected behind hydro electric dams was in the clouds thanks to solar energy from the sun. Just about the only energy we use that didn't come from the sun is nuclear energy and goodness only knows where that came from.

Solar power.has many advantages to offer, not least because it is available everywhere and is relatively straightforward for anyone to use. No doubt one day there will be a tax on it but for now free solar energy can be collected by anyone who has the appropriate solar panels and solar energy collecting equipment.

Solar energy is the energy from the sun that arrives on the surface of the earth as both thermal energy or heat, and light energy. This energy can be captured and converted into thermal energy we can use in our homes or the light energy can be converted to electrical energy used to power your home. You would need a lot of solar panels to power your entire home but many of us have garden lights powered by solar panels built in to them and we know solar panels work well.

The greatest benefits of solar energy are that it is free and it is environmentally friendly. Solar energy arrives on our planet every day so we might as well make use of it.There is no risk that we might run out of energy anytime soon as the sun is a free energy source that will always be there. Coal, oil and gas have to be extracted with great difficulty from the ground which makes them expensive to buy and some of these energy resources are becoming more difficult to find and extract.

Global warming is an issue we must consider when looking forward to the future generations who we will take over from us. If we want our children to have good lives we must be aware of the environmental issues facing us all.

The big disadvantage of solar power is the fact that the sun disappears at night so we are only able to harness the energy of the sun during daylight hours but properly designed solar energy systems will take the energy of the sun through the day and store it in some form or another to be available for use during the night.

Using solar energy is very cost effective since you install solar panels once and they continue to supply you with free energy for many years to come.The world needs to find a new direction because we have been plundering the Earth's resources for hundreds of years and simply cannot continue to do so. There is a limit to how much more of everything on the planet and we one day there will be nothing left for our children.

People do worry about the cost of installing solar energy panels but the fact that the energy they provide comes free means that in the long term the solar panels will pay for themselves. We may need government assistance in the form of cheap loans that are repaid as the savings in energy costs are made. However the solar panels installations are paid for, they will save us all money and help protect the air that we breathe from pollution produced by regular energy production facilities.

We will all be benefiting from the lower costs of using solar energy and there are other advantages to. There will be thousands of extra jobs available in this whole new industry to provide the solar energy systems needed for customers all over the world.