Solar Electricity - For Your House!

For years and years, people have long since assumed that there is power to be gained by the sun. Long ago, the sun was worshiped by some cultures, and the heating and light properties discovered and analyzed. Finally, in the last couple of decades, humans were able to convert some of the sun's rays into energy - solar electricity. Solar electricity has gone under some extremely radical advancements. Some say that it could be the solution for a number of problems in the United States and elsewhere.

What's so great about solar electricity? Solar electricity uses panels that convert the sun's rays into energy. This is nothing new, speaking strictly from an ecological standpoint. Trees and green plants have long been converting the sun's energy into fuel for themselves. With cell panels, we can finally match their production and exceed it.

Why should we use solar electricity? The great thing about using solar electricity is that it creates no waste. Unlike coal or gas power plants, solar electricity is clean, no smoke or carbon emissions. Solar electricity is also renewable. This simply means that we'll never run out of solar electricity, because we'll never run out of the sun. Or, if we did, we'd have much bigger problems than trying to power a house or town.

Solar electricity power plants or "farms" are popping up all over. There's a solar electricity farm in Spain that is capable of powering the whole city of Seville! Similar developments are taking place across the US, especially in the Southwest. These large complexes look like towers surrounded by mirrors. The mirrors reflect sun beams up to the top of the tower, which heats a turbine, creating solar electricity.

But you can install panels and benefit from solar electricity now! A couple of solar panels on your roof can be installed and linked up to your house AND your power grid. You can even install a battery to store up energy on sunny days to use when clouds appear. On the days where you generate more solar electricity than you use, many power companies will buy back your electricity. That's right, a utility invoice, not bill. Not only can solar electricity help save you money, it might even mean a check or two from the electric company.

Solar electricity is here to stay and as it develops it will only become more efficient, affordable and powerful. Solar electricity could be the very solution to the world's energy problems.