| What is solar power? It is energy from the sun that | | | | also using special glass panels that harness the heat |
| we can harness and use for electricity and heat for | | | | of the sun to produce heat for our homes and water |
| our homes and businesses. It has many benefits, but | | | | heaters. Special solar units are being used to take the |
| the greatest of these are that it is clean, | | | | heat of the sun and concentrate it into a very small |
| environmentally friendly, and best of all renewable. As | | | | point. This creates a massive amount of heat which |
| long as we have a sun, we will have options for solar | | | | industries that need large amounts of heat, such as |
| power. We can never run out of it, unless our sun | | | | melting materials, can harness and use as an |
| dies. It is quite literal, in this case, to say that | | | | alternative to the previous method of obtaining high |
| knowledge is power. The more we research and | | | | temperatures, which were highly pollutant. One of the |
| study about the power of the sun, the more | | | | most creative uses for solar power is that it is being |
| amazing it seems to be. | | | | used to provide electricity to areas of the world that |
| Many might wonder why that is so important for us. | | | | previously had no other power alternatives. This is a |
| Energy comes off the sun and hits the Earth every | | | | big step forward for mankind without harming the |
| day with about 400 trillion watts of power. So much | | | | environment. |
| research is going in to solar power because if we can | | | | Why shouldn't we use the power of the sun to our |
| find ways to harness even a little bit of that energy, | | | | advantage for a cost effective and environmentally |
| it would provide enough power to run our world | | | | friendly alternative energy source? The Earth will |
| about 8,500 times over. Think of the possibilities. | | | | always be bombarded with the immense power of |
| Some of the ways that we are already utilizing the | | | | the sun, whether we decide to use it or not. It is a |
| sun's massive amounts of energy are with solar | | | | clean source of power without harmful environmental |
| panels to provide electricity for our homes. We are | | | | side effects and best of all, it is free. |