Solar energy as an alternative fuel source. Do you agree with my points?

Question

1. Solar energy is not cost effective due to the cost of equipment and the cost fossil fuels needed to create solar energy cells in the first place. If you were to install solar panel on an average home in Phoenix AZ and you calculated the cost + fossil fuels used in creating the solar equipment it would take from 5-8 years to show a profit. Other cities that get less sun than the desert would take even longer and the cost would go up as you also calculate Maintenance dollars.

2. In order to generate enough energy to effectively curb our need for fossil fuels would not be economically prudent or reliable with the given solar technology as we know it today.

3.Hydrogen fueled cars and and big trucks is the main target of defeating the need for foreign oil. Solar energy will never be able to generate enough energy to supply hydrogen refueling stations.

Answer 1

yes, solar energy is much better, and it is efficient too.

Answer 2

Yes.

Answer 3

1. I disagree with you. If you are renting you are wasting money no matter how you look at it. And so it takes a few years to pay off at lest it pays off and you start getting paied back renting electric you never get a pay back ever.

Most people think if you rent a home you are just looseing money. Well it is the same way with solar power. If you rent electric you own noda but a stack of rent statement stubs. Lately homes are worth less then what you paied for them a few years back. But solar is worth more now then it was a few years back and the price keeps going up. Electric keeps going up. Cost of living goes up 3.5% per year. Fuel cost goes up 7% per year. If you own the solar power system your rates do not go up.

2. I disagree with you again,

If we put a small 1,000 watt system ($10,000 investment) on each home in the USA would provide over 100 million watts per hour every day the sun comes up. So if there were only an avg of 4 hours sun per day all year long we would produce 1,460,000,000 watts in power. Read that number again. That is 1.4 billion watts of clean power. Now lets put the required wattage on the homes and solar power on all the business and see what we get



Those numbers are not a joke and we would not have a need for a nuke power plant of any kind. Wind mills and Hydro power plants would take care of our needs without any gas or coal.

No need for batteries because you use the grid as a battery.

3. Why would you think we need to use solar mounted on cars and trucks?  Why not just change them over to hydrogen produced by solar power and if electric motors are required just plug them in to a home of business with solar in the parking lots.

And if we are having global warming or not or if it is man made or not renewable energy will create jobs and stop our jobs and money going over seas. Being we will no longer need other countries for oil, we will not get in so many wars. Why????? Because we would not care about their OIL.

Wait for global warming and see how many wars we have over food and clean water.

I guess I just don't see how anyone could down talk any kind of renewable energy. Unless you have your money invested in Oil or War or Nukes.

Answer 4

yes.Solar energy is a gr8 alternative fuel.

Answer 5

solar energy is awesome. i live in melbourne vic, there was a house i think in camberwell inner city that they put solar panels on about ten years ago, i heard that even in winter he was putting power back into the power grid, but governments are greedy and there is no money in it for them. god help us all if we don't start using clean energy soon regards dave

Answer 6

You didn't mention a storage device(s) for them cloudy days and night time.

Answer 7

I think these are good points but solar power advancement along with other green sources in combination could provide a "greener" future.

Answer 8

well big will the industry on earth is already powered by solar energy, in the form of food you eat.

All the food on earth is reliant on the sun and that is the building block of life as we know it.

It just takes a bit more science to progress it to electricity.  At present its not efficient, but who knows in 50 years.