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The Home Solar Energy Learning Curve
By Solar energy | October 7, 2008
The Home Solar Energy Learning Curve
Worried about home energy costs? Concerned about your impact on the environment? Perhaps you are one of the many Americans who are considering using solar energy for your home.
Everywhere you go these days people are gathering to learn about solar energy.
Going solar for your home energy needs poses quite a learning curve. Accustomed to thoughtlessly flipping switches off and on, the average American homeowner does not understand the how and why of electrical energy.
Once upon a time, a greater understanding of electricity was necessary. Today, enables us to access electrical energy without a second thought. We take this seemingly endless electrical energy supply for granted. That is, until we began to notice our home energy bills increase.
Using solar energy for your home requires some knowledge of how solar energy works. The ways solar energy can be adapted depends on variables such as climate, house orientation, and amount of energy required.
Solar technology improves constantly. One day we will access solar as easily as we access the internet from our home computers. Now is the time to educate ourselves about solar energy and learn how we can use solar in our home energy equation.
Here are some interesting solar facts:
- The solar energy that falls on the Earth’s surface in 40 minutes is equal to the total energy consumed by the population of the planet in one year.
- One day’s worth of solar energy striking the Earth equals the total worldwide energy consumed in 27 years.
- Twenty days of incident solar energy is equal to all the energy in the Earth’s reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas.
Thanks to SolarSanAntonio.org for these solar facts!
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