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The Sun Should be The Future Energy Standard

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There is a house in my neighborhood whose roof is completely covered by solar panels, and is owned by someone who is apparently selling them. Just yesterday I noticed they brought up a huge new surface in their yard covered with solar panels, as if trying to tell the passerby’s (of which there are many) that the time for solar energy has come.

There are more than a few good arguments for making solar energy the primary new energy source. The sun is a fundamental source of energy in our solar system. Even fossil fuels, which still dominate as the source of energy, wouldn’t exist without the sun. Scientists believe they are produced over millions of years of decaying organic life forms which could originally exist and grow only due to the sun’s energy.

Then we have plants which couldn’t grow without the sun, and in fact act as little solar collectors themselves. Without plants animals and by extension humans wouldn’t have anything to eat. Looking at plants, in fact, we can get a glimpse of what might be the ideal solar energy ecosystem, one in which almost every surface is a solar collector.

Source: TopBits.com