Four Renewable Energy Advantages
In today's day and age, there are many renewable energy advantages to be had if we turn our energy consumption habits to those which draw from sustainable energy sources.
What's more is that all of the advantages can be experienced in a two-fold manner - locally and globally.
Anyone today can create their own free energy for comparative pocket change amounts of set up cost, and more and more people are running their homes on free energy.
Let's take a look at four of these advantages here...
#1 - Renewable Energy Advantages; Cost Effectiveness The average home owner spends about $2,500 or so, yearly, on electricity bills alone.
Generating your own free electricity saves you all the money you would otherwise pay out to the electric companies.
What's more is that if you stay connected to the grid, most State laws mandate that the local electric company must buy back from you all surplus electricity that you generate - it's pretty darned wild watching your kilowatt-hour meter running backwards, as you look on and realize that it represents money coming back to you, paid by the same electric company that sapped cash from you on a monthly basis! #2 - Renewable Energy Advantages; Property Value If your home can sustain itself on the energy you generate enough to be completely off grid, the value of your property increases quite a bit.
If you plan on selling your home in the future, generating electricity by way of solar panels, wind-powered generators or both can make your property value soar, as more and more people are looking to live in "green homes".
Sustainable technology working to power your home helps the environment as well as the bank account, and this is a hugely desirable feature to have if your home goes on the market.
With this option in play, property values go through the roof.
#3 - Renewable Energy Advantages; Clean Energy A single wind-powered generator can produce enough electricity for a small home - the same amount of energy produced the conventional way through the burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity also produces over 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.
The same goes for a small solar panel array.
Using the sun and wind, or other means such as geothermal power, you are utilizing energy sources which are already naturally active - they don't need to be burned to release their energy, it's already flowing in motion.
Using these resources to create your own electricity or other energy does nothing to the environment, and neither does putting the produced energy to use.
Also, nothing is depleted.
For example, you could hypothetically have a hundred-trillion solar panels using the sun's energy, and it would still not tax the sun in the least.
#4 - Renewable Energy Advantages; Creating a Better Future In order to save our world, we need to stop scorching it with the carbon footprint we have been emblazoning upon it.
Moving to cleaner, non-environmentally affecting energy sources will do this.
With solar-geothermal heating, wind and sun generated electricity and so on, we can completely eliminate the need and use of power plants that use the burning of fossil fuels (such as oil - from whatever country), radioactive materials (nuclear power plants), etc.
, and allow the Earth and the environment to heal itself while we keep ourselves from affecting it further.
Remember the old Native American Indian saying; "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors - we borrow it from the many generations of our future offspring".
What's more is that all of the advantages can be experienced in a two-fold manner - locally and globally.
Anyone today can create their own free energy for comparative pocket change amounts of set up cost, and more and more people are running their homes on free energy.
Let's take a look at four of these advantages here...
#1 - Renewable Energy Advantages; Cost Effectiveness The average home owner spends about $2,500 or so, yearly, on electricity bills alone.
Generating your own free electricity saves you all the money you would otherwise pay out to the electric companies.
What's more is that if you stay connected to the grid, most State laws mandate that the local electric company must buy back from you all surplus electricity that you generate - it's pretty darned wild watching your kilowatt-hour meter running backwards, as you look on and realize that it represents money coming back to you, paid by the same electric company that sapped cash from you on a monthly basis! #2 - Renewable Energy Advantages; Property Value If your home can sustain itself on the energy you generate enough to be completely off grid, the value of your property increases quite a bit.
If you plan on selling your home in the future, generating electricity by way of solar panels, wind-powered generators or both can make your property value soar, as more and more people are looking to live in "green homes".
Sustainable technology working to power your home helps the environment as well as the bank account, and this is a hugely desirable feature to have if your home goes on the market.
With this option in play, property values go through the roof.
#3 - Renewable Energy Advantages; Clean Energy A single wind-powered generator can produce enough electricity for a small home - the same amount of energy produced the conventional way through the burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity also produces over 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.
The same goes for a small solar panel array.
Using the sun and wind, or other means such as geothermal power, you are utilizing energy sources which are already naturally active - they don't need to be burned to release their energy, it's already flowing in motion.
Using these resources to create your own electricity or other energy does nothing to the environment, and neither does putting the produced energy to use.
Also, nothing is depleted.
For example, you could hypothetically have a hundred-trillion solar panels using the sun's energy, and it would still not tax the sun in the least.
#4 - Renewable Energy Advantages; Creating a Better Future In order to save our world, we need to stop scorching it with the carbon footprint we have been emblazoning upon it.
Moving to cleaner, non-environmentally affecting energy sources will do this.
With solar-geothermal heating, wind and sun generated electricity and so on, we can completely eliminate the need and use of power plants that use the burning of fossil fuels (such as oil - from whatever country), radioactive materials (nuclear power plants), etc.
, and allow the Earth and the environment to heal itself while we keep ourselves from affecting it further.
Remember the old Native American Indian saying; "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors - we borrow it from the many generations of our future offspring".
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