| The Great Points of Using Renewable Energy in Your Home |
| Written by Zach Angelo | |
| Saturday, 10 April 2010 | |
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If you contemplate the benefits of using renewable energy for your home, are you thinking about yourself, or of the spaceship you live on, called Earth? There are gains to be made on both levels.
If you contemplate the benefits of using renewable energy for your home, are you thinking about yourself, or of the spaceship you live on, called Earth? There are gains to be made on both levels. In terms of your individual view point, the first thing you think of is the cash bonus you make from supplying much or most of your own energy. Sometimes you can even sell your extra energy to your local power company. On a global perspective you can't help but think of wars brought on by the dire need for gasoline. Amazingly, national security hangs in the balance of this addiction for fossil fuels. Solar based energy powering our homes could prevent or curtail wars. If there is a bigger benefit than that, it is difficult to imagine. The reduction in air pollution would be massive. Millions of cancer cases and other diseases would simply be prevented. Life quality would soar with better health for so many. Future generations would also reap the rewards. In addition to the quality of life improvements would come a staggeringly large fiscal benefit on the personal and national levels. It costs a lot of money to take care of patients. The savings created from the lowering cancer and illness rates would boost the economies of every nation. Of all the ways to create power, nuclear energy is the most insane. If aliens exist they must be laughing at our stupidity. The danger nuclear power plants pose, and the taxpayer subsidies they require, make them a mistake beyond belief. Yet for the first time in decades, the United States is planning on building more. Solar based energy powering our homes would make it obvious that more nuclear plants should never be built. Try to remember your physics class. Do you recall the 1st law of thermodynamics? It said the amount of energy is a constant. Then the second law, the entropy law said energy changes forms by how we use it, and the natural tendency is to wind down and be less able to be used. Well, when you look at how humans have decided to use our energy, it seems like we went out of the way to make the worse possible use of entropy; or that we even tried to speed it up. Green energy, though, is almost like a respite, or pause in the entropy law. At the very least, it is an extremely low entropy energy policy that we really need to transition to. Solar based energy can be direct from the sun, derived from the motion of water, or from geothermal activity or wind. No matter what method you choose, the benefits of using renewable energy for your home are felt in your community and your planet, currently and later in time. They affect your well being and your finances. They are easy to understand, yet very deep. The Article Author: Ready to slash your energy bill in half? The Green DIY Energy guide shows you step-by-step how to create your own solar energy system for less than $200! Get a SNEAK PEEK inside the Green DIY Energy Guide now! |
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