by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), a national nonprofit trade association, aims to spread awareness about how solar energy is working for America today and how it can work for you too.
So what is solar energy exactly? Solar energy is the cleanest, most abundant, renewable energy source available! Unlike other energy sources, solar is abundant in all 50 states, meaning that solar energy can work for every community, neighborhood and consumer by powering our homes, businesses, public buildings and vehicles.
Thinking about going solar? Putting solar on your home or commercial property is a great way to save on your utility bills, guarantee a fixed energy rate for more than 20 years, cut harmful pollution and become more energy independent.
Want to find out more about the Solar Generation?
Go and watch a three-part online webisode series documenting the Solar Generation USA Road Trip, which follows Alan Blake, award-winning director and owner of Blake + Company, as he travels cross-country from Cape Cod, Mass. to Los Angeles. Head to www.solargenerationusa.org to watch the videos and meet today’s solar generation. See residential, commercial and utility applications from a fire station, New York City rooftop, and Crayola Crayon manufacturing plant to a Midwest Zoo (with ‘solar bears’), Denver International Airport, the ballpark of the 2010 World Series champions, the San Francisco Giants, and a Napa Valley vineyard.
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Solar power is, as said, the cleanest and most abundant renewable energy source available. However, having said that, it does have its limitations in northern regions where sunlight is not always at its best.
On the other hand, the so-called solar panels are, in fact, photo-voltaic panels and are not so much dependent on the light of the sun but simply on light, as in daylight, though they work also when you shine, like your solar panel on your solar-powered calculator, some other, artificial, light at it.
Solar energy, together with wind, tidal and a few others of that nature, plus energy produced from the use of methane gas, as well as using the latter for cooking, is the way that we have to go for, as by now most will know, we are running out of cheap, abundant oil, and that a lot faster than what the powers-that-be want you and me to know.
I am just wondering though what solar bears look like.
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