Solar Power Systems, Profitable And Practical?
Solar power systems are in the news these days because of the going green mentality. Also, there is ongoing debate about dependence on foreign oil. But solar power is a complicated issue and if it was easy to use solar energy to power our homes, our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, our country, and then we would already be doing so.
Solar energy is a simple idea, but is still not as practical or profitable as the electrical turbine based power grid system we now use as our energy supply source.
But why not use the sun to power our homes and neighborhoods? After all the sun provides all the energy everyone and everything on earth needs to survive. We should at least be able to use the sun to watch TV.
Some do watch TV with solar energy. They have built a solar power grid in their home to power their appliances and even to light their home. Not everyone has the ability or the know how to install a solar power grid in their home, but those who have build systems that work and this demonstrates what individuals with ideas can do.
Their system begins with solar panels on their roof that take in sun rays that heat copper tubes that creates electrical energy that is changed into electric current and put through a twelve volt battery attached to a condenser that provides the power for the home.
This kind of set up still needs a traditional power grid because it has to be recharged every three months because solar power cannot always be stored effectively.
This system will save the homeowner money on his electric bill, but the system costs about a thousand dollars if you plan to install it yourself. You will pay more of course if you have someone install it for you. But this is the ingenuity that is creating new and practical ideas and inventions.
Up until recently solar power has been a novel idea. The solar panel provides a creative means for university students to research a class project. But now energy is in the news as the effects it has on our environment.
Solar energy at this time can power your TV, microwave oven, and coffee maker. But solar panels cannot be used to run your clothes washer, dryer, or refrigerator. Technology is not available yet to run these larger appliances.
If you have an opinion about issues like global warming, and whatever your opinion is, you have to agree that no matter what, burning oil and coal is simply not good for the air we all breathe.
But if the technology is to be created it will only occur if private companies will be able to profit from solar power systems they build. Solar power has to be made into a profitable business. Perhaps in the next few years we see more and more homes powered by the rays of the sun.
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