Understanding The Benefits Of Using Renewable Energy For Your Home
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.
On a global perspective you can’t help but think of wars brought on by the dire need for gasoline. Amazingly, national security hangs in the balance of this addiction for fossil fuels. Solar based energy powering our homes could prevent or curtail wars. If there is a bigger benefit than that, it is difficult to imagine.
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 energy poses immense danger, both in terms of accidents as well as storage of the radioactive waste, lasting many thousands of years. It’s a ridiculous way to generate electricity, not entirely unlike shooting a missile to kill a fly. It’s that inappropriate. If we were able to power our homes with green energy, there would be no excuses anyone could make to build more nuclear power plants, ever.
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.
Renewable energy, on the other hand, seems almost like a reprieve from entropy, an escape from the law, almost. It allows us to tap into the energy flow and make use of it, without running out of usable energy. Whether we power our houses, directly from the sun, the flow and movement of water, wind, or geothermal forces, the benefits of using renewable energy for your home are local and global, immediate and future, health and wealth, simple and profound.
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