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| Today solar energy is a clean way to utilize all of the | | | | their hands and start lowering costs and cleaning the |
| things that you would need to work properly while | | | | air we breathe ever day. |
| using electricity. Knowing that your traditional fossil fuels | | | | - By the year 2025 we solar energy will more than |
| will not last forever, the world needed to come up with | | | | likely be creating over 2.5% percent of the world |
| some other source to create electricity and have | | | | electricity, and then growing every year. |
| enough power to do so. Since it is created from the | | | | - Currently because of it capabilities to put money |
| Sun, we know that it comes from a very dependable | | | | back into a consumers hands, solar energy is one of |
| source that we can count on every day to rise from | | | | the fastest growing technologies. |
| the east until it sets in the west. | | | | Usage: Solar Energy Facts |
| Some scientist have predicated that we have well | | | | - Solar energy is measured by using a kilowatt hour. |
| over 4.5 billion years left to see the sun in the sky; | | | | So. 1 kilowatt would be equal to 100 watts. |
| much longer than fossil fuels will last and it much | | | | - If you were wanting to burn a 100 watt lightbulb for |
| cleaner and better for our earth. Of course some | | | | ten hours, you would want to make sure that had |
| days it may be covered my clouds causing solar | | | | created at least 1 kilowatt of solar energy. |
| energy to slow, but there are other sources that make | | | | - The average home in the world uses about 866 (kw) |
| up for that like solar wind power. | | | | or kilowatt hours ever month. Or, that would measure |
| Now that we know we can pretty much count on the | | | | out to be about 86,600 watt hours. |
| sun to keep shinning for many more years to come, | | | | - My energy bill has never been this high, but the |
| lets talk about some of the solar energy facts that | | | | RECS (Residential Energy Consumption Survey) |
| perhaps you need to know about. | | | | estimated that in 2001 the average monthly electricity |
| General Facts | | | | bill in America was about $2,000 per month. |
| - When you are using solar energy, you can be pretty | | | | - With the growth of solar energy, these numbers |
| sure that it is a clean and pure way to produce | | | | have since dropped and has given solar energy a |
| energy on a daily basis. It is a great way to protect the | | | | great potential to become the number one source of |
| environment for the next generation by not adding any | | | | clean energy in America. |
| more unnecessary pollutant’s. | | | | - Since 2000, solar energy has grown to become a |
| - It has been a slow but steady growth in the amount | | | | force of it own here in the USA, as it has shown to |
| of people switching over to solar energy. The growth | | | | grow at an average of 40% every single year since. |
| every year for the last 20 years has been at an | | | | This could be the sing of new times as more and |
| average of 20-25%, which is very good. | | | | more Americans take advantage of the sun to |
| - If you were not sure, using solar power has the | | | | produce electricity for their personal and professional |
| capabilities of powering a complete households | | | | needs. When it come down to it, we just need to look |
| appliances, hot water and lighting. | | | | at all the solar energy facts and we can see that this |
| - Over the last 20 years, the cost of solar power | | | | is the way we need to be heading for the future of |
| panels have decreased due to the fact that they are | | | | the planet and our pocket books. |
| figuring out ways to create these panels at a more | | | | |