Wind power is a non fuel energy that will not harm the environment with pollutants. The resources used to construct a wind farm are restored within a couple of months of operation. A wind farm converts wind into useable energy by using wind turbines to produce electricity for houses. Wind mills and wind pumps are used for mechanical power and to pump water or drainage respectively.
Solar energy can help save the world economy because it is efficient, renewable and cheap to use. Solar energy uses a photovoltaic collector that converts the suns energy into usable electricity. This type of energy requires an initial investment that the average consumer cannot afford because of the minimal competition and government regulations on good ideas like this. I like what Daniel G. Nocera, a professor of energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, points out at the Aspen environmental forum on the topic of solar energy.
"How committed to this are we?" he asks. "The ratio of spending on health research and basic research and development on energy is 30 to 1," he adds. "Right now the choice to fund science to solve this problem is pathetic. That's how we've decided to invest your money, while there's a chronic disease the Earth is experiencing," he concludes.
Solar energy is becoming more popular today, but only to people who have the money to use it.
Passive solar heating is a straightforward way to address some current economic issues. This design works off the suns daily and annual cycles throughout the year. We can build houses with windows that face southward to allow the energy from the sun to help heat the house. Using stone instead of vinyl siding is another method to conserve energy. The stone is a natural insulator, which reduces the amount of fuel needed to regulate the temperature of a house.
I think we should examine what Scott Jorgensen, President and CEO of Solarsa says about renewable energy. Solarsa provides reduced and predictable energy prices to customers for heating, cooling and hot water. Jorgensen has operated his own businesses for the past twenty-five years and understands how rising and unpredictable energy costs impact a business and our Nation's economy.
In a brief article on www.renewableenergyworld.com Scott says, "I believe you can turn this economic crisis into an extraordinary opportunity to achieve far-reaching benefits for our country. ... The Senate bills, S. 3233 and S. 2730, create a federal funding entity (Clean Energy Bank) whose purpose is to invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies that can put people to work immediately - engineers, contractors, plumbers, electricians and solar installers to work in every community throughout America. Investments that can help ameliorate the financial crisis with real assets as collateral for the loans."
"Loan guarantees, energy-efficiency mortgages and secondary market support for energy efficiency improvements, solar thermal applications and other similar technologies provide the greatest short and long-term societal benefit for our tax dollars. These "unsexy" improvements and technologies can be made more attractive by encouraging the aggregation of such projects for resale to a government-sponsored secondary market. A Clean Energy Bank will build sustainable financial markets that can eventually stand on their own and keep generations of Americans working."
What Scott has put together is a plan that asks the American people to work hard and ‘pay the price' for "Energy Independence". He also wants the government to provide immediate emergency funding of $10 billion for a Clean Energy Bank (as identified in Senate bills S. 3233 and S. 2730) and provide loan guarantees for large and small energy efficiency and solar thermal projects. Lastly, he wants to create a government-sponsored secondary market to aggregate residential and commercial scale energy efficiency and solar thermal projects so that Americans can invest in our homes, businesses and communities.
Eco-friendly resources and solutions are available, but the questions are...
- Will the government, large corporations, and politics work together to help make it easy for the consumer to integrate these into their everyday life?
- Will government and large corporations keep using non-renewable resources that slowly devastate the Earth just to gain a insatiable profit?
- Will we take action and start using resources like wind power, solar energy, and passive solar heating to save the world and our economy.
With this information, I hope consumers have the guts to make the smart choice to begin the process of not only making their homes more environmentally and economically friendly, but also the Earth.
Michael Hahn
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