When you think about the benefits of using renewable energy for your home, are you focusing on yourself, or on the entire planet? There are advantages on a personal level as well as a planetary one.
In terms of your individual view point, the first thing you think of is the cash bonus you make from supplying much or most of your own energy. Sometimes you can even sell your extra energy to your local power company.
Pondering on a planetary scale, it’s impossible not to consider the wars, related to oil, despite what politicians may tell us. The insanity of the mightiest countries in the world, risking their stability to quench their obsessive thirst for the thick black liquid, boggles the mind. If renewable energy could meet our home energy requirements, wars could end, or just not start. That must be the biggest impetus to getting serious about solar power.
The reduction in air pollution would be massive. Millions of cancer cases and other diseases would simply be prevented. Life quality would soar with better health for so many. Future generations would also reap the rewards. In addition to the quality of life improvements would come a staggeringly large fiscal benefit on the personal and national levels. It costs a lot of money to take care of patients. The savings created from the lowering cancer and illness rates would boost the economies of every nation.
Nuclear power plants release radiation even when they are working properly and there is always the risk of catastrophe as well as dangers of storing the waste. The first nuclear plants in years are being discussed. If we could power our homes, the green way, it would assure that there would never be anyone who could say with a straight face that we need to build more nuclear facilities.
Try to remember your physics class. Do you recall the 1st law of thermodynamics? It said the amount of energy is a constant. Then the second law, the entropy law said energy changes forms by how we use it, and the natural tendency is to wind down and be less able to be used. Well, when you look at how humans have decided to use our energy, it seems like we went out of the way to make the worse possible use of entropy; or that we even tried to speed it up.
But then you look at solar based, green, renewable energy, and you feel like the entropy law took a vacation. We can actually go with the natural flow of energy and use it over and over without much in the way of cost or harm. Whether it’s geothermal or wind or straight from sunlight, or even from the flow of water; the benefits of using renewable energy in our home are for individuals right here and billions of neighbors on the planet. They are felt now and generations from now. They influence our bodies and our financial affairs. The benefits are direct, as well as complex.
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