| "> | | | | those using wind. Solar technology has all ready |
| Less than fifty years ago it would have been hard to | | | | allowed for the creation for entire power plants that |
| imagine a home that was powered by the sun. It | | | | use fields of collectors and concentrated beams of |
| would have been even less possible to imagine a | | | | sunlight to produce enough electricity to power entire |
| backpacker who used a slim and collapsible solar panel | | | | towns. We have also witnessed the creation of solar |
| mounted to their backpack to power a GPS unit. | | | | panels that are installed in the same fashion as |
| Today, we are all ready at that point. We have been | | | | traditional roofing shingles and which can offer |
| rapidly assessing the alternative energy sources that | | | | homeowners electrical services throughout the entire |
| will eventually free us from the use of coal, nuclear, | | | | day and well into the night. This is all a far cry from |
| oil and gas energies and we have been implementing | | | | the enormous roof-mounted panels of thirty years |
| them in a staggering number of ways. | | | | ago, which provided hot water and some electrical |
| Among the most popular and well-developed of the | | | | service. |
| alternative energies are those using the sun and | | | | |