Electricity Conservation Solar Power
Energy Generation Guide
Electricity Conservation Ideas Reduce Power Bills
By Gerard J Howson
Electricity conservation can be improved by taking
action to reduce the rising cost of your power bills.
You can take the difficult route, by reducing the amount
of times you use your appliances. For example, reducing
the use of air conditioners in the summers and heaters
on cold winter nights.
An easier route is to generate your own electricity,
without creating emissions, using free sun energy to
create free electricity with a solar power system in
your home.
Initial Costs For A Solar Power System
There is an an initial cost for the solar power system,
but once your pay for the system and installation fees,
you may not need to pay for electricity again. There
are no moving parts, and the warranty is between ten
to twenty five years, depending on the installation
company.
There are a number of options with a solar power system.
Solar panels can be installed on your roof, or in a
sunny area of your yard. Another options is a solar
thermal system. You can find out all your options, when
you contact a number of solar power installers and manufacturers
to confirm your options and costs.
Using these options will help your efforts to reduce
your power bills and improve electricity conservation.
A Solar Power System In Your Home
Much of the focus on the energy crisis in America has
been upon the cars we drive, and with good reason. Cars
burn fossil fuels, creating smog consisting of greenhouse
gasses, which then traps the heat of the sun and warms
the environment. This causes global warming, which is
a very real threat to our continued well-being as a
species.
But you shouldn’t just focus on your car. Electricity
conservation at home can help play a part in the energy
crisis, and electricity conservation can also put a
few bucks in your pocket at the end of every month.
Lowering Your Electricity Bill
Here in New York, we’ve told the simple fact that,
for each degree you lower your heat during the winter,
your electricity bill will be three percent less (assuming,
of course, that you have electric heat).
This applies in the summer as well, with the preponderance
of air conditioners going full blast morning, noon and
night. When it comes to electricity conservation, it’s
a year-round concern.
Greenhouse Gasses Contributing To Global Warming
Why? Well, as I mentioned before, global warming is
a real threat that could have devastating consequences.
The following is from wikipedia.org’s entry on the subject:
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature
of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the
mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global
surface temperature increased during the last century.
Human Activity Including Burning Fossil Fuels and
Deforestation
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
concludes that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations
resulting from human activity such as fossil fuel burning
and deforestation caused most of the observed temperature
increase since the middle of the 20th century.
The IPCC also concludes that variations in natural
phenomena such as solar radiation and volcanoes produced
most of the warming from pre-industrial times to 1950
and had a small cooling effect afterward.
Global Surface Temperature May Continue To Rise
These basic conclusions have been endorsed by more
than 40 scientific societies and academies of science,
including all of the national academies of science of
the major industrialized countries. A small number of
scientists dispute the consensus view.
Climate model projections summarized in the latest
IPCC report indicate that the global surface temperature
will probably rise further during the twenty-first century.
The uncertainty in this estimate arises from the use
of models with differing sensitivity to greenhouse gas
concentrations and the use of differing estimates of
future greenhouse gas emissions.
Sea Levels May Rise
Some other uncertainties include how warming and related
changes will vary from region to region around the globe.
Most studies focus on the period up to the year 2100.
However, warming is expected to continue beyond 2100
even if emissions stop, because of the large heat capacity
of the oceans and the long lifetime of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere.
An increase in global temperature will cause sea levels
to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation,
probably including expansion of subtropical deserts.
The continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea
ice is expected, with warming being strongest in the
Arctic.
Other likely effects include increases in the intensity
of extreme weather events, species extinctions, and
changes in agricultural yields.
Reducing Emissions With New Technologies
There are ways we can slow down the effects of global
warming by taking action and reducing emissions. Starting
with current technology that does not create emissions.
Old technology like burning fossil fuels, will need
to be replaced by new technology, where there are no
emissions.
Replacing old technologies may be expensive and may
take time, but we can start using new technology now.
For example, generating electricity with solar panels
on your roof, does not create emissions. The source
of energy, the sun is free. Once you pay for the installation
of a solar power system in your home, you may never
have to pay for electricity again, as you are generating
your own electricity from a free source.
Meet Your Power Needs With Solar Power
Electricity from solar power can be used to power all
your appliances, turn on your lights and heat the water
in your home. Solar hot water is a popular option these
days, because people see a reduction in their electricity
bills, as they do not depend on power from the electricity
grid, when using a solar power system to heat their
water.
You can save on your power bills, just by switching
your power system to a solar power system and improve
your electricity conservation.
About the Author:
Gerard J Howson has written a number of articles on
solar power and renewable energy including
Portable Solar Power,
Solar Technology,
Solar Hot Water,
Solar Electric.
Gerard is working on more articles. Look out for new
articles as they become available on this site.
Little Known Solar Facts.....
What is the initial cost of switching over to
using alternate energy?
Switching over depends on
what exactly you are switching.
Houses that have to be retrofitted using solar
panels to generate electricity can be quite costly.
Vehicles are cheaper to retrofit but require work.
The costs can vary for anything switched over.
The best way to get an estimated idea is to seek
out a contractor or mechanic that is for using
alternate energy sources.
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