With Solar Energy the Future is Bright

Solar energy is our future. There is no denying it. Many people already live in environmentally affected areas and they need an alternative, and with solar energy they will get it. In fact, “Every hour the sun beams onto Earth more than enough energy to satisfy global energy needs for an entire year” (“Solar Energy,” n.d.). This energy is also getting increasingly cheaper, is producing massive amounts of power while being efficient and having great quality, and is very clean and good for the environment.

Cheap is the name of the game with the big energy corporations, and solar energy is most definitely that. Amazingly, “Experts predict the cost of solar power will drop below retail electricity rates in many parts of the country between 2013 and 2018” (“Solar Energy,” #2, n.d.). In addition, solar panels have become much more cheap to install due to better technology, “Thin-film solar systems,” according to writer James M. Higgins, “are cheaper to manufacture than flat-panel systems, require fewer scarce materials, are much easier to install, and require less physical vertical space per installation since they are flat. Thin-film solar materials can deliver virtually the same efficiencies as most flat-panel systems but at about 20% of the cost.” One company, Nanosolar, has achieved a 14% conversion efficiency rate in its now-marketed products” (Van Coppenolle, para. 21, n.d.). Furthermore, the cost to transport the solar energy from it’s source to where it is captured is absolutely nothing. Since the source (the Sun) produces solar energy without cost and transports it to Earth through light freely therefore, having the transportation cost be nothing and the speed it comes here be very fast, only eight minutes! In conclusion, the...

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...eved March 26, 2014, from National Geographic website: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/solar-power-profile/

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