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I have come across some energy facts that I would like to share with you from the United States government. The US uses 20,680,000 barrels of oil per day. We are ranked number one. The next closest country is China, they are using 7,578,000 barrels of oil per day. Even though these figures are from a report from 2007, the use of petroleum continues to grow. We also lead in gasoline consumption to.
We have natural resources available right here in our country and other country,s around the world, that we could be putting to good use. We only use less than 1% of our total energy consumption for wind and solar. And the totals of all renewable energy which includes: bio-fuels, waste, wood and coal fuels, geothermal, and hydroelectric which includes wind and solar only amounts to a little over 7%. It’s amazing that we have any petroleum left. Finding new petroleum is only going to get harder and more expensive to extract from the earth!
We need to concentrate on our natural energy sources Now. Solar Energy for instance needs to be researched more than ever. I don’t believe we will ever run out of the sun’s energy, Do You? No, I don’t think so, but we could run out of petroleum someday and it’s only going to get more expensive. Why should we give all of our money to other country’s for oil, that gives them leverage over us for the energy we need, and costs we can’t control. Bad Ideal!
Technology exist today to build your own renewable energy system, it could be a solar hot water system, wind generator system, or a photovoltaic energy system, any of these systems would help us financially. Our children are facing tremendous energy challenges in the near future. Real possibilities exist like Home Solar Power
Energy to take your home Off-grid were all your utilities are self sufficient. Just think of the ideal of not owing the power company any money on a utility bill.
You’ll have an advantage with Solar Panels
These days more and more home builders in the United States, especially the largest builders, are including green features in their standard packages as buyers demand energy efficiency for a new home they may purchase. One particular builder, Miami-based Lennar announced plans to offer it’s new Power Smart SM Homes in all 16 states where it builds, beginning in Minnesota. These homes, designed to cut energy use 40%, will include efficient heating, cooling, lighting, appliances and windows. They’ll come with the government’s Energy Star label and the Department of Energy’s efficiency score. People are diffidently looking for ideals to save money, even when they are spending money, smart investment.
Bill Burgess, president of Lennar’s Minnesota region, said in a statement. “Prospective buyers are eco-conscious and truly embrace energy-efficient products even in this current economic climate.”
What is clear is that green home building has gone mainstream, as architects and investors alike recognize it’s value in cost efficiency. Whether you are building a new home or renovating your old home or just upgrading appliances, heating, cooling, windows, lighting or utilities, it is an excellent ideal to incorporate some form of renewable energy into the design.
Like converting the use of Solar Panels
for electric energy. That ideal will save you money, be a good investment, raise the value of your home, and will give your home an advantage when comes time to sell. Who doesn’t want a energy efficient home. Everybody!
Solar Power System – 5 Factors
Want to invest in and your family’s future? Ask yourself this question: “If I have a sum of money to invest today, can I expect a higher return with traditional investments or with an investment in a supplemental solar-electric system”? There is analysis shows that generating your own solar-electric energy is often the better investment. The factors of this analysis comes from five areas- natural resource assessment, technology, energy consumption, economics, policy.
The first factor- to consider is the energy that the sun provides us. You can perform an accurate analysis for each month of the year, The National Solar Radiation Database ( NSRDB ) can be found at the Renewable Resource Data Center ( RReDC ). For this analysis the data is found in, The Solar Radiation Data Manual for Flat-Plate and Concentrating Collectors.
The second factor- is to consider which Solar Power System to invest in, Their are two different types, “Grid-Tied” or ( “utility-tied”) and ” Off-Grid ” systems. Obviously the “Grid-Tied” system is the one that is connected to your homes electric panel box, and with a true net meter ( your electric meter spins in both directions) to consume the electricity your household uses or sell to the utility company. Either way, an investment in a Solar Power energy system of any size can then earn a maximum return, up to the amount of energy that is produced. Most Solar Panels are warranted for 25 years.
Third factor- Energy Consumption, with the use of a System Meter you can monitor your systems performance, it is better to produce more electricity than your household is consuming. That way you are not paying for kilowatts.
Fourth factor- Economics, even if your making good percentage off your stocks, and the interest is compounded and reinvested back into stocks, That’s Great, but something is missing? “Taxes” saving on utility bills are like post-tax income. You pay taxes on interest income, you don’t pay taxes on money you save.
Fifth factor- Policy, dramatically affects the return on investment in solar-electric energy. Exiting policies provide some important incentives for solar-electric energy and other forms of renewable energy. An excellent resource that lists renewable energy incentives is the Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE).
Results are- Immediate personal reward is that there is money to be made with an on site Solar Power Electric Generating System. And is considered a low-risk investment into your future.
Harvesting the Suns Power for Solar Energy!
A Home Owner that is enthusiastic about the environment and saving money, one good choice is harvesting the power of the sun for making Solar Energy. Solar Power Energy is a form of renewable energy that does not pollute the earth no matter how much you use. Harvesting more of this kind of energy will not in any way decrease the supply of solar energy on earth. It is a endless supply of a natural energy just waiting to be used in an environmentally friendly way, and can not be used to pollute or hurt our earth as for their is no left over waste that can be dumped into our soil or water system to pollute anything.
With your own set of Solar Panels, you can maintain the cost per watt of energy as long as the photovoltaic panels work for you. With conventional sources of energy, you are expected to pay more and more every year due to inflation and the ever depleting source of fuel, even as the costs for it just keeps rising.
Can you recall how much we had to pay on our energy bills 10 to 15 years ago? It absolutely hurts us today to see how much more were paying for it now. And can you honestly say that the price for energy may decline. I don’t believe so. That’s why if any time would be to start thinking about an alternative energy source then, NOW is the right time to start. Just taking baby steps toward the process of changing the way we think about harvesting energy could save us all a ton of money, I am sure we would like to use for the money for other necessary things.
Their are
many other amazing facts about Solar Energy that makes it the worlds preferred source of renewable energy. But how can we take advantages of harvesting the marvelous source of never ending power? There are many ways will talk about in later posts, but for now a good place to start is with Solar Panels for electricity.
There are many diy solar energy guides out their to help people understand that if your willing to learn and get your hands a little dirty you can build your own Solar Power Energy System at a fraction of the cost, as to hiring a solar energy company to install the whole system, which they would be more than happy to do so.
Solar Power System Component # 4
Setting up a Solar Power System.
This component is a must have.
System Meter is the fourth component we can talk about in the series of components you’ll need to have to build
a Solar Power Energy System. A system meter measures and displays several different aspects of your solar-electric system’s performance and status, tracking how full your battery bank is, how much electricity is being used. Operating your solar-electric system without metering is like running your car without any gauges hooked up to track the performance of the engine, even though you could leave it out, but that would be unwise, you need to keep track of how much energy is being made, how much energy is being stored, and how much energy is being used.
Think of the component like this, it is your fuel gauge and you need to know how much energy is coming from your panels and how much energy is being used up. Some inverter manufacturing company’s now provide wireless meters to allow system monitoring from any room in your house, so you can keep an eye on the monitoring of the system at any time.
How could you know if your system was working to it’s full potential, or if you was making effective energy usage decisions?
Real Time Solar Monitoring. You can gain access to energy data to gain an understanding of how you could optimize your solar energy system. You can get connected to one of the web-based systems. Here’s how it works. Data from sensors at the inverter and the main electrical panel is sent to a communications gateway. The information is then sent out to the internet broadband, modem, or wireless, where it’s processed into data and is present on web pages for access. You can keep track of real time data on your home computer.
Solar Power: Efficient and Affordable
In the past, residential solar power was reserved for homes that were far off the beaten track. These were often ranch homes in the American Southwest where sunlight is plentiful and civilization relatively scarce. When you’re miles from the nearest access to the power grid, it just makes sense to become self-reliant. More recently, everyday Americans in cities, towns and rural settings are exploring the potential of photovoltaic cells.
Technology has improved over the last few years, and just as computers drop in price once they’ve been around a while, solar power systems are becoming less expensive and more tantalizing to the average homeowner. Once solar panels are set up and fully operational, they can reduce energy bills and provide real peace of mind. It’s nice to know that in providing energy for your home you’re not also leaving a carbon footprint.
Solar Power TO GO!
My son Trevor and I decided to go hiking, And we needed to put together a check lists of items we should take with us on our trip.
The list started something like this:
* Clothing items—
* Hiking Boots
* Wool Socks
* Long Underwear
* Brier tough trouser
*Equipment—
* 2 favorite hiking staffs
* 2 Backpacks
* 4 flashlights, extra batteries
* 4 MRE’s meals, trail mix
* small first aid kit
* Compass
* waterproof matches
* pocket saw, hatchet
That’s a good start, Trevor and I were going over the list of items, We were siting in the garage thinking about what other items we needed or something else we should take, after a few minutes Trevor say’s, Dad we have to take our cell phones in case we have any trouble on the trail. Yes I replied, we sure do. And Dad, I hope you don’t mind if I bring my ipod to just to use if I get bored. I said that was OK, Because I knew he didn’t want to hear me talking all the time as we walked. I knew we would be gone for about 3 days for a good hike, I thought about that for a minute and said,
“What are we going to do if our cell phone batteries go dead on us, or your ipod battery, that could be trouble couldn’t it”
Next Trevor said, Dad, just the other day I was on the internet looking at hiking supplies and I just happen to come across a Solar Power
Back Pack that charges hand held electronics,
“Really” I said “Yeah” Trevor said, and it wasn’t that expensive either. I looked at Trevor and said, let’s go get online a find us one of those back packs, Trevor said that sounds like a good ideal, LET’S GO
The Versatility of Solar Panels
A lot of people are looking for new ways to produce energy. Solar energy is one of the energy sources that are free, clean and renewable. Solar panels are used to harness the energy from the sun. The solar panels are arrays of photovoltaic cells that collect the sun’s energy.
Much research is still being done on building more efficient and cost effective solar panels for domestic and industrial use. You can save so much on your electricity bill when you can rely on the sun for heating your home. But you can see smaller applications that can be used in campsites. Since there is no access to electrical outputs in the outdoors, solar panels are used to supply some electricity in the site.
Solar Powered Attic Fans
Have you ever had to go up into the attic on a Hot summer day and the temperature is around 90 to 95 degrees outside that day. Well I have had to, I had to go up into the attic on a Hot summer day to get something out of a box I had stored up there or I have had to go up there and place more boxes of stuff we had to store, you know try to stay organized.
Well let me tell you, when you have to go up in the attic on a day like that, I think you will agree with me it’s so Hot up here it will take your breath away. If you was to place a thermometer in the attic to read the temperature it would read between 120 to 140 degrees, that temperature is unbearable for any amount of time, you can’t stand it for very long.
Don’t you think there’s got to be a way to remove this heat in the attic, and to think how this kind of heat is pressing down on your living space inside of the house. Now wonder why your air conditioning unit is running all the time fighting against the temperature outside, let alone the temperature in the attic.
There is a solution:
You could install or have installed Solar Powered Attic Fans to pull the Hot temperature out of the attic. It works like an exhaust fan, and runs by a Solar Cell to power the motor for the fan that pulls the heat out of the attic, and has a temperature switch that turns the fan on & off, and you don’t have to hook the unit up to a electrical outlet ether. Your one time price could just possible save you quiet a bit of money from your electric bill.
Now that makes sense to me, How about you!
Solar Power to go!
“Gadgets” Don’t we just love them.
Many people these days have a lot of gadgets, we have cellphones, i pods, pda’s, laptops, and what do they all have in common: weak or dead batteries. The batteries have to start to die out when we are in the middle of a project or in the middle of a call or waiting for our favorite songs to come up in the play lists our battery starts to die.
You know what a problem it is carrying your charger with you and running around trying to find an outlet somewhere to charge them back up.
Their is a solution, a new gadget, and it’s called a Solar Power Pack it is the latest new gadget people on the move need to have with them to keep your gadgets operable. The Packs come in different variety’s of sizes and they unfold like a book, just lay your Solar Pack outside in the sun and your charging pack is powering up your gadgets.
In no time you have powered up and your back on track and ready to go.
Finally we have portable Solar Power on the go, when we need it, and sooner or later your going to need it. Power up!