| The rising price of power has hit everyone in recent | | | | Unfortunately, most people don't know that they can |
| years, and especially recent months. Homeowners | | | | now afford to run their houses on solar power or |
| everywhere have seen their power bills increase and | | | | wind power. |
| often have had to cut back spending on other things | | | | There's even profit to be made with alternative |
| because power isn't very affordable. The answer is | | | | energy sources. Did you know that the power |
| affordable solar and wind energy systems. | | | | company will buy your extra power, if you are |
| The power that you use at home comes from | | | | creating more than you can use? Of course, many |
| burning nonrenewable energy sources, such as coal | | | | people who adopt serious solar and wind energy |
| and natural gas, or by exploiting the dangerous | | | | systems choose to go 'off the grid' and not be |
| nuclear power of uranium, which is also nonrenewable. | | | | hooked up to a power company's network at all. |
| While they are polluting the environment, the | | | | Lots of people are doing this now that the materials |
| resources that power our houses and our lives are | | | | for solar and wind energy systems are becoming |
| dwindling down, and experts don't know how much | | | | truly affordable by almost all homeowners. |
| longer they'll last. | | | | So how does one obtain these affordable solar and |
| Alternative power sources like solar and wind energy | | | | wind energy systems? The prices for these systems |
| systems promise to change all of that by providing | | | | are coming down every year, but they're still out of |
| clean and affordable energy by harnessing the power | | | | the range of most people for residential use. For truly |
| that is all around us all of the time. But so far, the | | | | affordable alternative energy systems you can build |
| "affordable" part has been very difficult to come by. | | | | them yourself. Before you get scared off, know that |
| In the last few decades the prices of solar and wind | | | | it's a simple process that can be done by people at all |
| energy systems have kept them out of most | | | | skill levels, and thanks to recent advances in |
| residential applications like powering houses. Now, as | | | | technology all of the necessary parts are easily |
| we work our way into the twenty-first century, the | | | | obtained. Right now home made energy sources are |
| materials to build these alternative energy sources | | | | the only solution to the problem of affordable solar |
| are within the reach of most homeowners. | | | | and wind energy systems. |