BY: Cornelius Thomas
Solar
energy is the answer, more specifically harnessing that energy by taking
advantage of the ever improving technological advancements like solar
photovoltaic, solar photosynthesis, solar architecture, and solar thermal
electricity. Is the solution. All these are great advancements in the field,
yet I grown very found of the developments of Solar Photovoltaics so I’ll go
more in depth about this particular design. These inventions fall under the
category of “Sustainable energy”, if their use is developed and spread
worldwide the earth will be a healthier, safer, but more importantly to the
majority of the planet a more affordable place to live in.
As we move forward in time, we as humans continue to
do what we do best, consume things. The recurring theme in the scientific
community, and slowly but surely spreading to the rest of the world is that
planet earth isn’t going to be here forever. Unfortunately unlike the solution to a lot of world’s
problems we can’t just go out and buy another earth. What’s even more disheartening
is we as humans are doing a great amount to destroy planet earth everyday. We
do this by driving cars and trucks whose emissions constantly destroy the earth’s
atmosphere, tearing holes in the ozone layer. We also won’t stop tearing down
our natural rain forests, whose trees serve as our last line of defense of
absorbing those toxic chemicals. Of course not to be outdone our incessant need
to “drill baby drill”, won’t be going anywhere soon. After all this, what seems
to constantly take a back seat to these issues is the fact that humans use
gigantic amounts of electricity daily, the main source to power that electric
energy is from harmful fossil fuels, like coal, oil and gas.
Commonly referred to as the PV system, solar
photovoltaic is a display of solar panels designed to supply usable electric
power for different purposes, with the sun as its main power source. The number of modules in the system determines the total DC
watts capable of being generated by the solar display. A PV arraignment can
power a single home or an isolated device that uses AC or DC electric. Satellites
used by the military streetlights, electric cars and solar powered tents can
all incorporate this system to power the device. The advancements in this field
seem limitless. With little effort it’s easy for one to begin to think of the
possibilities.
Imagine
bicycles that operate on their own, after fully charged, what about a solar
operated plane, no more Gas operated vehicles, fully charged businesses of
operations, sports arenas, simply amazing. All this of course needs the right
founding along with patience and the ability to battle the big oil and Gas
companies. In Arizona alone more than 15 rooftops are installed everyday.
Already users have grown from 4,770 to 14,424 from 2010 to 2012 alone. With the
advancement of the Solar panels, energy providers have been in an up roar
spending millions of dollars on smear campaigns describing users of this system
as freeloaders, thief’s, and unpatriotic. At the moment Solar PV’S powers less
than one percent of homes in America, for one because installation costs are
set at $25,000. Gas and Energy companies concerns are understandable though,
because as we’ve seen in the past, and will see in the future, price to
manufacture and install these new innovations will fall, making them less
expensive, equating to more buyers and who knows maybe these gigantic energy
companies might become obsolete.
At
this point it seems like a no brainer to have these panels installed at your
home, especially if you can afford it, and live in a state that’s visited by
the sun the majority of the year i.e. Texas, Georgia, Arizona and Parts of California.
Continuing to tap into the ability the sun seems to be a recurring, trend,
where it’s powers will take us in the future one can only consider, as we make
sure all the lights are off before leaving our house.
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Seeing as I live in Southern California, these solar panels are making an impact in the community and are saving people a lot of money everyday. But I have heard certain stories where people say it does cost a large amount of money and takes a while to work on. But, a newer, cleaner, way of energy for the world is always a good a start.
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