In case you are new to the field of energy, solar energy, also called photovoltaic, is simply capturing the light energy sent from our sun. The sun's rays are collected in solar collectors and converted into electricity. The very same electricity you use to power your radio or refrigerator.
Isn't Photovoltaics Just A Neat Hobby?
This is a far different world from the solar products of even a dozen years ago. For many, many years this was a respected and interesting hobby for a lot of really industrious individuals. Those days are over. Now it is a serious business with serious people wanting the sun to give them energy for their lives.
One advantage of even a couple of decades ago is is the technological improvements which have made solar products more cost effective than ever. I remember in the eighties the cost in the United States for solar electricity was about ninety-five cents. According to the American Solar Energy Society, the price has now dropped down to about twenty cents. Absolutely astonishing.
Let me quickly add that the new price does not make solar electricity less expensive than the grid. that rate, according to the U.S. Department of Energy'sAnnual Energy Review, is now a little over eight cents (per kilowatt-hour).
I hope you've been reading about the new "thin film" photovoltaic technology. It is a coating that seems to convert any surface that happens to be covered with the film into an electric power source. A solar power source. Astonishing.
I have read that recreational vehicles and boats are beginning to be covered with the substance.
I know what you're thinking now! If that really works, why not my roof. Right! Some innovative engineers have developed a material to be used as a roof coating that will transform your roof into a solar electricity power source. Now that's astonishing!
This material will withstand wild and wooly weather. Imagine, your roof tapping the sun's rays for electricity that you can have your family use during sunny weather.
True, this is not available inexpensively today, but it is all coming.
I mentioned earlier that the price of solar electricity is more than you will pay if you buy on the grid. It's true. It's also true that generating solar electricity for your own use saves pollution as well as conserving our remaining levels of fossil fuel.
So why should this matter to you. What I am saying is that if you engage in producing your electricity by solar, and this makes you feel a little special, a little like you are a very responsible person, that's because it's true. You are a special and responsible person. Because wind and solar and biofuels and all the other alternatives are not only good for your family, they are good for the environment. And that makes you a very special person indeed.
Why? Because that makes you an integral and elemental part of the solution. Integral and elemental, for sure. In every sense of the words.
The future is coming.
The future of us!
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