Advantages of Renewable Energy - No Pollution

23 June 2010
Posted in Alternative Energy

The consequences of our consumption of carbon based fuels are becoming increasingly worrying so perhaps it is now that we as individual home owners started to look at the promise for clean renewable energy. The unvarying fossil fuel power linked editorials are repeatedly in the newspapers and on TV, look back to the good old days a few months ago when the items  where only concerning increasing levels of greenhouse gases, rocketing gas prices, plane tickets costing more because of the rising cost of aviation fuel, how lucky we were only we did not realise it.

Then came the headlines are all about the oil spill in the Gulf, brought about primarily by the consumers growing demand for less expensive gas, which encourages the oil companies to take intolerable chances to reach it. Drilling too deep and too close to the coast seems lunacy now that there is this terrible leak, but before that it was OK? Was It? We now need to look at the advantages of renewable energy.

The present policies were set up twenty years ago when the problem was keeping up with demand for an growing population and that required additional fossil fuel power stations, more requirements for fossils fuels, more risks taken to get them, global strife as more countries need more fossils fuels. In addition to all these problems we have greenhouse gases brought about by the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which a great number of scientists think is the source of global warming. Not a good track record for electricity generation using conventional power plants!

So the savior of the world is clean renewable energy is it? When you think of the obvious advantages of renewable energy it should be, shouldn’t it?

The renewable energy technologies entail generating energy utilizing processes that are:

Renewable readily available zero cost sources such as solar energy, wind energy, hydro energy, tidal power and magnetic generators. For example you can make your own windmill 

Sustainable  we will never reach the stage when the sun does not shine, the wind does not blow and water does not flow, or if we do the very least of our problems will be the supply of energy! Now is a good time to check out the ease in which you can make homemade solar panels

Clean  producing energy using any of the alternative energy methods that emits no pollution – no carbon dioxide emissions so no risk greenhouse gases

Sounds wonderful so what’s the problem? Well governments and big corporations have poured so much money into developing the technology to generate power making use of the fossil fuels that they dominate so it cheaper than making use of alternate expertise like solar and wind to generate commercial power. Control the supply of fossil fuels then use them to power the generating of energy that they control it’s a neat circle, which keeps energy prices comparatively low and pollution high. Large scale alternative energy generation has a long way to go to catch up.

So it is maybe time for individual property owners to take a look at the ways in which they can produce their own clean renewable energy, there is a upsurge of general fascination in clean renewable energy. This, by a happy coincidence, has concurred along with the increased obtainability of DIY alternative energy guides that you can get on the internet. These kits have been made feasible through the improvements in clean technologies that make it possible for the individual property owner to construct an alternative energy generator making use of the power of the sun or wind, these techniques have much greater efficiency now with the improvements in solar cell and turbine blade design.

Whilst commerciall electricity generating utilizing clean renewable energy cannot yet compete with the old school fossil fuel technology on price them same is untrue for DIY clean renewable solar energy system for your property. 

There are information guides available for all of your energy needs covering solar power, wind turbines, magnetic generating, solar hot water heaters and solar hot air heaters, everyone of which you can consruct using the by the hand instructions both written and in video, using the plans included, with parts that most likely can be purchased locally (they have included a parts list for you). Starting costs for your system are less than £200 and in a few days you can be producing your own free electricity!