Aug
12
In our series on Love the earth, we look for ways to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, which increase carbon emissions, ways to decrease pollution and ways to reduce harm to nature, by reducing open mining, deforestation.
Many of these methods are now technologically possible, although often there is a cost to be paid, or a lifestyle change to be made.
In terms of power consumption, alternatives include solar power, wind power, hydro power. Nuclear power is capable of producing a huge amount of energy from a small amount of material, but the potential harm that nuclear waste can do to an environment still renders it as undesirable compared to other forms of energy generation.
Solar power, for one, is easily available. If factored into the design of a house, a few solar panels costing a few thousand dollars may built into the roof, where sun is readily available, or to shade a pavilion. Remember that it connected to a battery array which can store power for the house, these panels can be continuously generating power, clean power that will not create carbon emissions.
These panels can be obtained from places like Home Depot. Or if you are looking for much larger arrays to generate more electricity, google solar power for specialist companies which will be able to supply arrays that will be able to generate 10kW/h or more.
Remember, sunlight is ubiquitous. And with improving technology, solar power can be generated even in low light conditions. All the more reason to do your part to save the environment.
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