| Is solar power for homes the answer to our energy | | | | However, what definitely IS the solution is the |
| problems? Everybody knows there is mounting | | | | consistent use of solar power for homes together |
| concerns over the state of our ever-diminishing | | | | with the wide range of other alternative renewable |
| energy resources. News articles have told us that | | | | energy sources such as hydro electricity and wind |
| maybe there is only enough petrol to last us another | | | | power. |
| 50 years. Our use of traditional energy is excessive, | | | | There is no question that alternative energy is the |
| unsustainable and we are running out fast. So, what | | | | answer to our energy problems. Maybe not today, |
| can we do about it? | | | | but soon, these will be the resources that are driving |
| As ever our media sources have a handy solution. Be | | | | our homes and industries forward. |
| afraid! At every corner they spread fear. It is not | | | | It is not whether this will happen, but when. How long |
| just in the area of energy that they insist that we | | | | before we start to impose this institutionally? How |
| should be afraid. Be very afraid. | | | | many more years must we watch China's massive |
| What they have learned is that fear sells. So, | | | | coal mining industry rip into huge swathes of land? |
| newspapers, TV news, you name it, they are all | | | | How many more nuclear reactor centers are to be |
| singing from one song sheet. Everyone should be | | | | built in the West? Where will we store all the |
| afraid. If you don't believe me, check out the | | | | radioactive surplus once the plants are closed down? |
| headlines of your newspaper today. Then tune into | | | | Can we assume that our nations will continue to be |
| your TV news and see which story lines do they | | | | able to afford the exorbitant upkeep costs of our |
| choose to follow? | | | | nuclear plants? Already, Russian nuclear power plants |
| They do like to throw in a jokey-smiley piece at the | | | | are being left uncared for and their unmaintained |
| end about someone's grandmother's cat that got | | | | nuclear submarines are leaking their cargo into the |
| stuck up a tree and how the fire service got it down | | | | Baltic Sea. How long will the powers that be use their |
| in one piece. They do that to imply that 'even though | | | | economic clout to continue to pollute our planet and |
| the world is a dangerous place', there is still | | | | poison our minds with this fear?' |
| something to smile about. | | | | I believe that solar power for homes must play a |
| The world's media has an intention of spreading fear | | | | major part in solving humanity's biggest problem, the |
| to sell their products and they don't care if they ruin | | | | problem of survival. |
| your day to get their point across. | | | | You want some good news? Well, here's some. |
| Why they do this has not what this article is about. | | | | Already progress is being made. Those looking to |
| My intention in writing this is to start you thinking | | | | install solar power for homes are already enjoying |
| about this agenda of fear, to ask you to consider | | | | good rebates and grants from many local |
| that your future is not all doom and gloom as they | | | | governments. The sooner everyone gets behind solar |
| suggest. | | | | power for homes on a national scale the better. |
| I am here to tell you that the world is not a | | | | We could institute a state-wide solar ready house |
| dangerous place. Far from it. In fact, we could instead | | | | building program. The cost of installing solar power for |
| have newspapers and TV news hours filled with | | | | homes would fall dramatically. What about introducing |
| nothing but positive news - real genuine essentially | | | | solar power plants? In certain states, such plants |
| important news articles that are entirely based in | | | | could supply enough energy to support the needs of |
| reality, and all positive news. | | | | whole towns, even cities. |
| Now, before your cynicism kicks in (if it hasn't | | | | By setting up acres of solar energy panels in |
| already!), I will say clearly that being positive, on its | | | | untouched areas of desert lands, we could not only |
| own does not make the difference. Saying there are | | | | tap into their natural resources, but we could also |
| no weeds in your garden does nothing. Weeds | | | | radically alter the economic hardship that up to now |
| continue to grow regardless of positive declarations. | | | | has seemed unalterable. Already the wealthy nation |
| If you want a weed-free garden, get down on your | | | | of Israel is looking into this solution in the Negev |
| hands and knees and pull them up once a week. That | | | | Desert. What about cash-poor countries like Ethiopia |
| is how you get what you want in the area of weeds | | | | and the whole area of the sub-Sahara? I mean the |
| and gardens! | | | | possibilities are endless here! |
| The same applies when we talk about energy. We | | | | As increasingly more technologically advanced solar |
| are running out of traditional energy resources. There | | | | panels feed into ever more efficient battery |
| is no point in denying that. Instead, there is every | | | | systems, such solar power plants would pull in |
| reason to get it, to embrace what is so. Soon there | | | | enormous amounts of clean, renewable, safe and |
| will be no more petrol and gas to speak of. We can't | | | | transferable energy. |
| hope to steal from our planet for ever without there | | | | So, the future is bright. With solar power for homes |
| being a cost to pay somewhere down the line. | | | | playing its part in this alternative energy revolution, |
| Here's the thing to get though. If history teaches us | | | | literally anything is possible. We could be seeing whole |
| anything, it is that we, as humans, have always used | | | | populations getting all their energy resources for free. |
| our superior intellect to overcome whatever grave | | | | Why not! |
| dangers faced us as a species. | | | | The time is now for governments to make the huge |
| So, we ask ourselves, "Is solar power for homes the | | | | investments needed for solar power for homes. The |
| answer to our energy problems?" | | | | sooner we roll up our sleeves and start pulling up the |
| You want to know my answer? Well, my answer is a | | | | proverbial weeds, the sooner we can stop living in |
| resounding, No! There is no doubt in my mind that | | | | fear and start enjoying a world full of positive news |
| solar power for homes is not the solution. | | | | instead. |