The sun has an incredible role in this realm, delivering the world light, warmth, power, and essentially the foundation for life. Solar energy is a completely free source of energy and it is found in abundance. Though the sun is 90 million miles from the earth, it takes less than 10 minutes for light to travel from that much of distance. In a day and age where gasoline prices are sometimes well over $4.00 a gallon, and the ever growing high concentration in pollution, does it not make sense to implore the utilization of the sun to power our electronics?
The technology for solar panels has been around for over thirty years, essentially being derived from photosynthesis. In one second, our sun produces enough energy to meet the current needs of the entire earth for 500,000 years. The sun can power 4 trillion 100 watt light bulbs every second. One square mile of sunlight under solar power for one year produces over 4 million barrels of oil, saving over 200 million dollars’ worth of energy per year.
As of 2006, U.S solar installers have been putting up a system every 80 minutes. This year, solar installations for households is installed every four minutes. By 2016, there could be a solar system every 80 seconds. One square mile of sunlight under solar power for one year produces over 4 million barrels of oil, saving over 200 million dollars’ worth of energy per year. Unfortunately, the U.S only produces 1% of the entire energy used in 2013. Can you imagine the amount of money saved if there was more of a focus on solar powered fields/plants? Or better yet, the amount of money you can save by simply using one Kudo case for your iPad?
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