Solar power for homes
Comparison study with other power sources
Solar energy is the cleaner and greener renewable source of energy that the nature can
provide us with. The importance of solar power and the fact that it is a non pollutant has made people consider
solar energy as the most important renewable energy source and hence more and more people are reaping the benefits
of brining in solar energy to their lives and to their day to day activities.
In fact, solar energy is considered to be more useful than the other renewable sources of energy like the wind
energy. The federal government and the state governments have also started promoting of solar energy by giving a
lot of incentives to people who use and wish to use solar powers for their homes and offices.
"To ease the financial burden of new solar power systems
costs, the federal government as well as state government now provides tax rebates and incentives to people
ready to go for solar power."
 The comparison of solar energy is done against the electricity, generator
system and the oil. More people are interested in knowing the benefits of the solar energy over electricity in
order to fully understand and take a final decision before installing the solar power systems in their homes
replacing the electricity. The first and the foremost point to be noted is that the energetic potential of
solar power is great and there are several priorities of transformation of solar energy to other kinds of
energy and the usage of solar energy.
The first such transformation is to convert the solar energy into heat energy and using it for heating
buildings, heating water or air conditioning. Here, the plane solar collector is used to transform solar energy
into heat energy, which looks like a plain metallic box which lets air, water and special liquids to pass through
and is collected in an insulated vessel. This is the solar water heater and depending on the solar panels used the
size of the collector tank can be varied. Here, the benefit that the solar energy has over electricity is that the
cost of production of hot water through these solar heaters is much cheaper than water being produced by electrical
heater or boiler or gas boiler. The solar energy does not require any fuel and hence will not be polluting the
environment and this explains why more and more people are installing solar water heaters in their homes these
days.
"The solar collector is used to transform solar energy
into heat which looks like a metallic box, which lets air water and liquids pass through it and is collected
in an insulated vessel."
 The next important transformation of the solar energy is into electricity
which is the major concern among many homeowners, who feel that, the rise in their electricity bills are being
sky rocketing year after year. Here, the process is simple wherein solar panels placed on the roof tops of the
homes collect the sun rays and then converts this into electric energy which is collected in the battery
attached to the panel through the wires. This battery will then pass on the collected DC current to the
inverter which converts the DC power into AC power that will light up the electrical appliances in homes. The
electric energy produced this way can be increased by increasing the number of solar panels and it also
possible to activate all the electric appliances in a house using solar energy and its systems. The initial
cost of the solar power systems and its installation is slightly on the expensive side and this is what is
putting people in double minds whether to go for the solar power systems or be satisfied with the present
electricity that is supplied by the state governments.
To ease the people over the financial burden of installing new solar power systems, the federal government as well
as the state government is now providing tax rebates and incentives to people ready to go for solar power in their
homes. The governments are now well aware of the numerous benefits of the solar energy that they even are willing
to pay to the homeowners who are ready to supply them with the excess solar energy that is generated in their
homes. With these rebates and incentives, the government has also advised the mortgagers to issue loans to people
wishing to install the solar power systems in their homes. So, the cost of installing a solar power system has now
considerably reduced and every homeowner installing the system can be assured that he will not be required to
anymore pay the huge electricity bills as long as the sun shines over his home. So, in the long run one can see a
huge savings on the electricity bills.
The transformation of solar energy into electrical energy is also totally free of air pollution as well as the
system will be silent and hence there will be noise pollution either. The other methods of production of electrical
energy has high pollution factor like burning up of fuel. The use of solar power will provide substantial reduction
in the consumption of fossil fuels and gases and hence the environment will be protected from polluting. But for
all this to happen, a sunny weather is most essential and as long as sun is there it will not be a difficult task
to generate solar energy. The main advantage that solar energy has over the other energy forms is that its primary
source is sun, and that it is freely available.
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