Renewable
Energy
 Today
with the rapid growth of development of the world's technologies,
from fast foods, clothing, entertainment, information
and communication technology, it is indeed we are living
with unprecedented changes everyday. These changes and
continuous development in technologies brought us comfortable
and at-ease everyday living. But we cannot deny the effects
of these changes and rapid growth in technologies to our
environment, which caused the uber popular earth's dilemma,
the GLOBAL WARMING.
Global warming post grave threats to us through climate
change, a sudden changes in earth's temperature paves
way for a more drastic and destructive natural calamity
such as hurricanes, typhoons, flooding and many more that
causes deaths of thousands of lives annually. But of course
with any problems there is, there is a solution. One of
many solution that can avert the cause of global warming
is the use of "Renewable Energy".
What is Renewable Energy?
 Renewable
energy effectively uses natural resources such as sunlight,
wind, rain, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally
replenished. Renewable energy technologies range from
solar power, wind power, hydroelectricity/micro hydro,
biomass and biofuels for transportation. These energy
don't cause any harm to the environment like what the
fossil fuels are doing. It is sometimes called "Clean
Energy".
One of the most popular of all the forms of renewable
energy is Solar Energy.
Solar Energy
Solar energy is energy from the Sun. This energy drives
climate and the weather supports virtually all life on
Earth. Heat and light from the sun, along with solar-based
resources such as wind and wave power, hydroelectricity
and biomass, account for over 99.9 percent of the available
flow of renewable energy.
Solar energy technologies harness the sun's energy for
practical ends. These technologies date from the time
of the early Greeks, Native Americans and Chinese, who
warmed their buildings by orienting them toward the sun.
Modern solar technologies provide heating, lighting, electricity
and even flight.
Solar power is used synonymously with solar energy
or more specifically to refer to the conversion of sunlight
into electricity. This can be done either through the
photovoltaic effect or by heating a transfer fluid to
produce steam to run a generator.
Earth
receives 174 petawatts of incoming solar radiation (insolation)
at the upper atmosphere at any given time.
The best way to harness the power of the sun is by using
what we called solar cell or photovoltaic (PV) panels.
A
solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts
light into electricity using the photoelectric effect.
Solar
power generation is a clean energy system that generates
electricity from sunlight that falls on the earth. It can
be used just about anywhere-in large buildings, in factories,
and in residential homes. Both commercial and private customers
are showing increased interest in solar power generation.
GreenMobile solar charger aims to tackle and help
alleviate the threat of climate change using renewable energy
like the energy from the sun or what we called Solar Power.
With the huge numbers of these gadgets or mobile products
that amounts to billion of units worldwide, we can reduce
the use of fossil fuel powered energy to power these gadgets
and help fight climate change one gadget at a time.
source:
www.wikipedia.org
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