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Solar Power Systems Can They Be Profitable And Practical?

Solar power systems are a hot item today because of all the talk about green energy and because of the ongoing political debate about foreign oil dependence. However, solar energy is not a simple issue scientifically. If it was simple, the sun would be providing energy to power our homes and our communities.

Solar energy is a simple idea, but is still not as practical or profitable as the electrical turbine based power grid system we now use as our energy supply source.

But why not use the sun to power our homes and neighborhoods? After all the sun provides all the energy everyone and everything on earth needs to survive. We should at least be able to use the sun to watch TV.

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Some do watch TV with solar energy. They have built a solar power grid in their home to power their appliances and even to light their home. Not everyone has the ability or the know how to install a solar power grid in their home, but those who have build systems that work and this demonstrates what individuals with ideas can do.

Their system has solar panels on their roofs that collect sun rays that heat copper tubing which produces electrical energy that is converted into electrical current and channeled through twelve volt batteries and condensers which then provide power.

Their system must be connected to a traditional energy power grid because it needs recharging three to four times a year because solar power, which can be stored, does not always remain available in current power systems.

This system saves the homeowner money on his electric bill, but the system will cost up to a thousand dollars to install yourself and will cost more if you pay someone to install it for you so you have to take that initial pay out into consideration. But this type of ingenuity is what drives new ideas and new inventions.

Up until recently a solar panel has been a novel idea, a creative means for university students to research a class project. But now energy is in the news as the effects it has on our environment.

Solar energy at this time can power your TV, microwave oven, and coffee maker. But solar panels cannot be used to run your clothes washer, dryer, or refrigerator. Technology is not available yet to run these larger appliances.

If you have an opinion about issues like global warming, and whatever your opinion is, you have to agree that no matter what, burning oil and coal is simply not good for the air we all breathe.

But if the technology is to be created it will only occur if private companies will be able to profit from solar power systems they build. Solar power has to be made into a profitable business. Perhaps in the next few years we see more and more homes powered by the rays of the sun.

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