Greenhouse emissions and solar

Climate experts agree that solar energy generation is a technology that has multiple benefits for humanity. One of the main reasons that people want to look at installing solar panels is to save money. For others, a big reason is that it will have a positive impact on the environment, and the future generations of the planet.

Environmental and financial benefits of solar power

It is true that solar panels have both financial and environmental benefits, and here are some significant ways that solar panels are having a positive impact on the environment. When burned, fossil fuels are used to produce electricity. However, they simultaneously produce substantial amounts of greenhouse gasses. These are gasses that get released into the atmosphere and trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere. The most prominent of these gasses is carbon dioxide.

The search for fossil fuels is also dangerously polluting

In addition to these extraction processes, searching for oil can have its own negative effects. Seismic techniques for searching for oil beneath the ocean floor can do serious harm to fish and marine life, not to mention when there are oil leaks, such as the Gulf Oil Spill in 2010. By contrast, the benefits of solar panels do the reverse to the environment. Solar panels provide clean, efficient energy, utilizing a resource that is not depleting the resources of the planet.

Here are three significant environmental benefits of solar panels:

Solar panel technology reduces air pollution
Generating electric power with solar panels produces no greenhouse gasses. The current solar capacity currently installed across the United States offsets as much as 16.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. This is a significant step toward managing the human impact of climate change.

Solar energy reduces water pollution

Many power plants today need a significant amount of water to produce steam to spin turbines and cool down the system afterward. The amount of water used in the process makes up almost half of all freshwater withdrawals in the United States, which adds up to billions of gallons every day. Solar energy makes no pollution of local water sources and does not strain domestic supplies through competition with agriculture, drinking systems, and other vital water needs of each community.

Solar technology reduces the need for finite resources

The sun is the world’s most dominant energy source, creating an incredible 173,000 terawatts of solar energy every second. That is more than 10,000 times the world’s total combined energy use! Fortunately, this resource is renewable, meaning it doesn’t deplete after one use. In contrast, all fossil fuels are non-renewable, meaning once they are used, they can’t be reused a second time. While fossil fuels seem in abundance today, it’s a fact that they will deplete and eventually run out. Experts expect this supply to last another fifty years, which is a very short time of time geologically. The cost of finding and extracting fossil fuels is proving very expensive. Solar energy available now and in the future., 

There has never been a better time to install a solar energy system!

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