Here's your chance not just to be the mayor, but the original city planner as well! Imagine a medium sized city that would be developed with modern, low carbon transportation in mind, and other strategies to reduce the average citizens' carbon footprints.
What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
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Using Sunlight for energy
Here in Texas, there is a lot of sunlight. There are some houses that use solar panels to produce energy for their houses. If you think about it, solar panels cost a lot of money, but they save you money in the future. And not only does it save you money, but it is better for the environment. We should all start to use solar panels on our houses and also on office buildings since we use a lot of energy.
Just found an interesting fact: "The average system costs a little over $10,000. The good news is that many banks offer low cost financing, which can make your loan payment less than what you were previously paying for electricity!"
so I think Its not so expensive at all.
These solar panels not only save you money in the long run, but systems are being developed that allow any surplus energy to return to your power company for use elsewhere, making solar panels a more efficient source of energy. The only problem is that energy from solar panels can sometimes be unreliable due to changes in the weather, however, solar panels do not necessarily have to entirely replace the current electricity providing systems, and can be used simply to increase electrical efficiency, which can in turn reduce the amount of carbon released with the use of electricity.
I agree with you. Solar panels can let us use solar energy and it won't run out easily like other natural resources like gas and coal. It can make our environment more sustainable.
The solar energy is an useable. It's a good idea. I think we should use solar energy to heat the water. We could also use that to produce electricity for our house. The solar energy has big chance to help the people.
According to an article by the USCUSA (found here: http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our- … ggRnBFViko), renewable energy sources such as solar panels, wind energy, and geothermal energy have little to no carbon emissions, yet they are not being utilized nearly as widely and as commonly as they could be. If power plants that burn non-renewable resources like coal (coal power plants produce about 25% of the carbon emissions in the U.S.) or oil were to be replaced by solar power plants or by other electricity generators that collect energy from natural resources (wind, water movement, the sun), then carbon emissions could be lowered significantly.
With the cost of raw materials coming down solar panels are becoming a very viable option, although installation charges are still a bit high