| Solar power information is all over the place these | | | | plummeted to being a few hundred to one or two |
| days, and not due to anything new in the field, but | | | | thousand to do the same. |
| more as a result of the dragging economy. The fact is | | | | This is how far advanced today it is for solar power. |
| that solar energy has drastically improved as a | | | | Information on making your own panels is also all over |
| technology over the past four decades since its initial | | | | the internet, as people everywhere are building their |
| boom of popularity way back in the seventies - | | | | own arrays right out of the garage. Using simple and |
| remember those days? Well, before I go dating my | | | | inexpensive components, people are putting together |
| age here, let me just say that there are three major | | | | panels measuring about three by five feet, single ones, |
| ways this technology has leaped ahead since way | | | | for less than a hundred dollars, that can power a small |
| back then in "the old days". Basically, advancements | | | | fridge, a personal computer, and a small stereo |
| have been made in production of photovoltaic cells | | | | entertainment system all on the same single panel. This |
| ("solar panels"), bringing their prices way down for | | | | type of thing is usually done over a weekend as an |
| anyone to afford, materials used have made | | | | activity to get into with the family for a fun filled project |
| advancements as well, making them much more | | | | that's inexpensive, enjoyable... and pays. |
| compact and lightweight, and there have been soaring | | | | The more solar power information you look into, the |
| advancements in their energy output - the amount of | | | | more that it seems senseless not to tap into this green |
| electricity that they can produce. Let's examine all of | | | | technology using this free sustainable energy resource. |
| this more closely... | | | | It's free - there is no "sun bill" that comes in the mail |
| As for the advancements in solar power, information | | | | every month. It's inexhaustible - if you had a hundred |
| on their power ratings can be seen wherever they | | | | billion solar panels faced towards the sun and collecting |
| can be purchased, even online - there are a few | | | | the rays, it would never deplete the supply of energy |
| different types and kinds of solar cells out there, and | | | | that the sun whips out into the universe by the gigaton |
| each has their out power output rating... but if you | | | | every passing second. It's clean - there is nothing |
| remember the way things were at all, you'll find that | | | | burned, no exhaust, no fumes, no byproducts, and no |
| the power outputs of those from the seventies are | | | | negative effects on the environment at all whatsoever, |
| quite ridiculously laughable when you compare them to | | | | in any way, shape, form or fashion. There's utterly no |
| those of today. For example, back then in order to | | | | excuse not to be using this free energy, and a world |
| provide enough electricity to power an entire home, it | | | | of reasons to get into implementing it in our homes and |
| would cost in the general neighborhood of ten | | | | our lives. |
| thousand dollars or more. Today, this cost has | | | | |