Solar Power; The Untapped Resource For Abundant Clean Energy By Alireza Aleali At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Solar power is a fantastic way to get energy. If we used solar energy from the sun, there actually is enough energy in one hour of the sun that would supply the Earth’s energy for an entire year. This is truly amazing.

Solar energy is clean and renewable versus fossil fuels. Therefore, it is extremely good and healthy for our environment.

We probably do not see a massive amount of solar power plants due to the cost of solar power plants being much more expensive than other power plants. Due to the high cost, consumers would have to pay the difference. Although the good news is that technology is improving and solar plant costs are decreasing.

In order to use solar power plants, massive land and sun is needed. The desert would be the perfect place to put solar power plants, but that is not reasonable due to the fact that the majority of the population does not live in the desert. Since the population is so far away, this would lead to yet another cost of running high voltage power lines. Running high voltage power lines would have to be run through regulatory processes and may fail environmental issues.

By using solar power from solar power plants, at this time it is only useful during the daylight hours. More development is needed on electricity storage so that solar power can be used in the evening hours as well.

Ways that a solar power plant can be of use is to produce smaller size solar plants. By building smaller solar power plants they can be within the community of humans. Giving rebates and other promotions to get people interested and using solar power plants would be of help. Most people are into “going green” and would welcome saving our Earth for ourselves and future generations. Lately, people are realizing more and more that we need to protect our world. Once one country takes the plunge to help solve the energy solution, other countries should follow for maximum effect.

Another positive in using solar power plants versus current fossil fuels and windmill solar energy is that the solar power plant is not dangerous to birds. The solar windmills may catch a bird’s wing, therefore, causing the bird to become injured and/or die. Fossil fuels continually pollute our world. Some folks argue that the pollution is causing many allergies in people as more and more people are diagnosed with asthma than in the years past.

Knowing that the United States of America uses over 25% of global energy but accounts for only 5% of the global population is a huge amount of consumption. If you think about it, some third world countries do not even have electricity which accounts for two billion people.

The large corporation, Shell, has predicted that by the year 2040 half of the world’s electrical energy will come from much more Earth friendly resources. Hopefully in the near future we will see more and more solar power plants all over the world. This will help to keep our planet healthy and preserve our resources in the long run.

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