5 Great Reasons To
Build Solar Power
To put it simply, when people talk about "solar energy",
they are referring to the  energy that is derived from the sun. The
sun is an infinite souce of energy from which you can
build solar
power and provides us with heat
and light. Past civilizations have revered the sun and
worshipped it as a God.
That
degree of reverence was inspired by the sun's
abundant and limitless energy. It will be around for billions
of years to come. The advantages for you to build solar power
are plentiful.
It doesn't cost you a
penny.
There are few things in life that are free and solar energy
is one of them. With each morning sunrise, the solar energy
released on the earth comes filtered through the atmosphere to
provide us with light and heat. Although it's been doing this
for millions of years, it has only been in recent times that
mankind has begun to capitalize on this incredibly steady and
endless power source. Now more than ever, a trend has emerge
where individuals are starting to build solar power for their
homes.
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Although the it's easier than ever to build solar power
today, even the Greeks and Egyptians have left traces of their
civilization's ability to harness solar energy whenever they
needed to by concentrating the radiation.
Solar energy is
pollution-free.
Unlike energy sources like fossil fuels, solar energy is
free of any pollutants. Residues and harmful gases are often
the by-products of petroleum or organic fuels.
It is the most reliable source
of energy.
For about four and a half billion years, the sun has been
providing sunlight to our solar system and it still has roughly
five billion more years of energy left. For all practical
purposes it is infinite in supply for our generation a millions
of generations to come.
Every morning, the sun shows up at dawn and lights up
another part of the world at sunset. Depending on your
geographic location, you can build solar power using the sun's
energy to either store away for future consumption or sell back
to the electric company.
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Solar energy has endless
supply.
There isn't a cap on how much energy we can use from the
sun. In fact, if we could build solar power advanced enough in
technology, we could actually power the entire United States
for a whole year from the amount of energy that comes from the
sun every few minutes.
If technology were advanced enough to build build solar
power that can capture the immense energy of the sun, there
would be no more energy crisis.
Why doesn't everyone just
build solar power?
If it's so great, why isn't everyone doing the solar power
thing? Why can't we just capture all this free energy and solve
alot of the world's problems at the same time like global
warming and the energy crisis? How is it that such a tremendous
source of clean free energy is getting wasted while we further
pollute the fragile atmosphere?
Well one of the problems that we face when we try to build
solar power is that the tremendous amount of energy is so
thinly dissipated across the earth that it is very difficult to
capture enough to be useful. In order to actually harness solar
power, we need the ability to manipulate, focus, and store the
energy. It sounds so simple and yet it is a lot easier than it
sounds. To date, scientists have only managed to develop three
partially successful ways of capturing the sun's power.
Mirrors / Parabola - The
Reflection Method
The reflection method
works by concentrating the sun's rays through a single or
a set of mirrors onto one point. The concentrated heat
can then be used for out need. A concave parabolic mirror
shaped like a satellite dish can be used to capture the
sun's rays and focus then on a single
point.
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The Radiation
Method
This principle
is the technology that powers solar water heaters. Water is
contained in pipes that are painted black and sandwiched
between two layers of glass. The water is heated only by the
rays of the sun.
Solar
panels
The solar panel is a more recent invention. Solar panels are
made up of solar cells. Each solar cell is composed of treated
silicon crystals. When sunlight hits the crystals, they knock
electrons out of their orbits and create a charge imbalance.
The electrons from the neighboring crystal moves over to try
and correct the imbalance thereby creating a flow of current.
This flow of current is usable electricity that can be either
stored in a battery for future consumption or used
immediately.
The innovation
and research on solar energy is paving the way to much more
efficient solar cells that are smaller in size and produce much
more power. The future has arrived and now thanks to education
and innovation, a dream to build solar power and harness free
energy is coming into fruition one household at a
time.
~Ralph
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