Renewable Sources of Energy: Soloar Energy

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In our world today we have many problems such as an ever-growing issue we are faced with that is the use of electricity, in that matter we are faced with many problems locally and globally. If electricity is not used sparingly/wisely locally, the bill price would be very expensive and families would have to use their hard earned money to pay the bills of high electricity consumption. And thus, families would have to spend lots of money every year just for paying the bills alone. The problems that people face globally is that as more money is spent and with the problem of inflation, the bill prices would only increase and thus become more expensive.

Solar power is energy efficient, what is meant by that is that solar power cannot ever run out as long as it is installed properly. Solar power cells is a source of electrical energy that converts a powerful source of energy such as the sun into electricity, using it’s energy to create electrical currents within the solar panel. Solar panels produce electricity using technology called “Solar Photovoltaic (PV)”.

Diagram of how solar panels generally work in a household.
URL: http://www.energyfarm.com.au/why-solar-energy-perth/how-does-it-work-solar-power/

A more specific breakdown diagram of how solar panels work
URL: http://www.mysolarshop.co.uk/Solar-panel-diagrams-i-95.html

After the solar panels absorb a certain amount of the sun’s energy. The solar panels transfers the energy through an inverter, to the power board and then back to the power grid. Without the inverter, none of this would be possible as the energy collected by the panels are DC electricity and thus cannot be used. Inverters convert DC electricity into AC electricity so they can actually be usable.

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...e of system you need. And with those options there are choices to be made, whether or not a person prefers quality but at a price or cheap and decent at best. Although installing the solar panels can be expensive (around $3000 depending on the company), the long term savings a person can save outweighs the thought of paying quite a lot of money for installing the solar panels.

Solar panels/ solar panels are environmentally friendly. They are the very essence of the definition “eco-friendly”. Typical electricity uses fossil fuels, which are NOT renewable, which also means that resources from the earth lessens/depletes, normally using fossil fuels would require burning it and as a result releases harmful emissions into the environment. Solar panels use energy from the sun, which is a very dependable source, which is renewable and therefore environmentally friendly.

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