Contents

Renewable Energy

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Table Of Contents

1. Converting Your Home Into A Solar Home

2. How To Reduce Our Oil Addiction

3. Nuclear Energy - Is It A Green Solution?

4. Alternative Energy Overview

5. Simple Ways To Save Energy At Home

6. Declare Independence By Building Your Own Solar Panels

7. How To Save Energy

8. Nuclear Energy: To Be Or Not To Be?

9. Harnessing The Power Of The Sun To Make Solar Electricity

10. Building Your Own Solar Panels

11. Is A Solar Panel Electrical System Right For You?

12. It Is Time To Utilise Renewable Solar Energy

13. Solar-Powered Lighting

14. Saving Energy - Saving Money

15. The Best Way Get Off The Grid

16. Wind Turbines - Why Not Build Your Own?

17. Learn How To Make Solar Panels

18. What To Know Before Purchasing Home Solar Electricity

19. Solar Panels For Home Or Business Energy

20. Top Energy-saving Tips

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Renewable Energy

You Can Make a Difference Too!

by

Owen Jones

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Published by Megan Publishing Services

https://meganthemisconception.com

Copyright Owen Jones 2023 ©

Hello and thank you for buying this ebook called ‘Renewable Energy - You Can Make a Difference Too!’.

In the face of climate change and the urgent need to transition towards sustainable practices, the rôle of renewable energy has never been more critical. The good news is, you have the power to be a part of this transformative journey. Welcome to “Renewable Energy - You Can Make a Difference Too!” - a guide designed to empower you with practical knowledge and actionable steps towards a greener, more sustainable future.

Within these pages, we’ll explore the diverse world of renewable energy sources, from solar and wind power to hydropower and geothermal energy. We’ll unravel the benefits they offer, not only for our environment but also for your household or business. You’ll learn how embracing renewable energy can lead to reduced energy bills, increased energy independence, and a lowered carbon footprint.

But it doesn’t stop there. We’ll delve into the practical steps you can take to integrate renewable energy solutions into your daily life. Whether you’re a homeowner, a business owner, or simply someone passionate about the planet, this booklet will provide you with clear, actionable advice on how to make sustainable choices that align with your goals and values.

The journey towards a greener future begins with you. Together, we can harness the power of renewable energy to create a cleaner, more sustainable world for generations to come. So, let’s embark on this empowering journey, and discover how you too can make a significant difference through renewable energy!

Regards,

Owen Jones

Table Of Contents

1. Converting Your Home into a Solar Home

2. How to Reduce Our Oil Addiction

3. Nuclear Energy - Is It a Green Solution?

4. Alternative Energy Overview

5. Simple Ways to Save Energy at Home

6. Declare Independence by Building Your Own Solar Panels

7. How to Save Energy

8. Nuclear Energy: To Be or Not To Be?

9. Harnessing the Power of the Sun to Make Solar Electricity

10. Building Your Own Solar Panels

11. Is a Solar Panel Electrical System Right for You?

12. It is Time to Utilise Renewable Solar Energy?

13. SolarPowered Lighting

14. Saving Energy - Saving Money

15. The Best Way Get off the Grid

16. Wind Turbines - Why Not Build Your Own?

17. Learn How to Make Solar Panels

18. What to Know Before Purchasing Home Solar Electricity

19. Solar Panels for Home or Business Energy

20. Top Energy-saving Tips

Contact Details

1. Converting Your Home Into A Solar Home

When it comes to converting your home into a solar home, there are several options, because not all homes have the same problems, the same requirements or the same potential sustainable power sources. Therefore, if you are going to try a total conversion or even get off the grid entirely, you will either need to do some research or call in an expert to make a survey for you.

If you call in an expert, try to get an independent one, so that you can work out the costs of fulfilling your energy needs yourself. You will have to pay for such a survey, naturally, but you could carry out a report yourself with a bit of work on your behalf. In order to produce a solar home, you may find the rest of this article interesting.

There are fundamentally two types of solar design: passive and active solar energy. Passive solar energy can be used to supply heating, cooling and natural light for your home. Active solar energy is used for powering home appliances, tools and lighting. It is the ideal combination of these two types of solar energy that you will attempt to accomplish, if you are attempting to convert your home into a solar home.

You can use passive solar energy methods in many ways, although they are more easily built in during the actual construction phase of a new home. The largest area of glass should face south or be within 30 degrees of due south. This will catch the maximum amount of heat. This heat can then be circulated around the house by stone floors and stone walls.

The central heating ducting and furnace fan can be used to assist, if necessary. If the house becomes too hot in the summer, awnings or even solar panels could be dropped down in order to put the windows in shadow. When thinking of passive solar energy, you should try to think of means of supplying warmth and coolness without using electricity. For example, a skylight at the top of the stairs will permit the warmest air in the house to escape, since hot air rises. This will cause cooler air to be sucked into the house at lower levels.

The other feature of a solar house is the generation of electricity by the use of solar panels grouped into solar arrays. Solar panels make use of photovoltaic cells to convert light into energy. This energy can then be used to power everyday electrical appliances of all sorts or some or all of it can be stored in batteries for later use. Conversion from AC (alternating current) to DC (direct current) and back again, if needed, is a straightforward affair.

Solar energy can also be used to warm up water for the pool or for the home. The most usual sort of system uses pipes filled with a kind of anti-freeze to collect the sun’s heat and pass it on to tanks of water by means of a heat exchanger.

A solar home uses energy efficiency to reduce the need for heating, cooling and electricity. The use of higher grade insulation, more energy efficient windows, kitchen appliances and lighting than those used in traditional homes, will save you a lot of money and energy.

As you can see, some of these modifications, particularly the passive ones are structural, so hard to apply in many homes, but there is always something you can do to cut your energy bills and slowly convert your home into a solar home.

2. How To Reduce Our Oil Addiction

The world has been on a collision course with disaster with reference to its oil dependence since at least the Second World War and that finished almost seventy years ago! As if that wasn’t enough to get through the skulls of our ‘leaders’, we were reminded with the Suez Crisis in the Sixties, the Oil Crisis of the Seventies and the problems with Saddam Hussein and Iraq in the Nineties and Noughties.

And we still didn’t learn. Our successive governments of every colour just turned a blind eye to our oil consumption and allowed their pals in the fossil fuel industries to flog us the stuff that they had mined or drilled from the planet. Why didn’t the West plan full-scale research into alternative technologies like geothermal, wind and solar power?

The answer can only be greed and personal, self interest. Surely they knew that fossil fuels would never become cheaper? What commodity does when it is in ever diminishing supply? These guys are experts in capitalism - they knew that, with decreasing supply and increasing economic demand from three billion Chinese and Indian people, the price of energy could only go up. And not slowly either.

Instead of being more or less self-sufficient in our energy needs, after seventy years of warnings, we in the West are just as reliant on dangerous or unstable countries in the Middle East as ever. Perhaps even more so than before, although some governments have started to look for the life jacket now that water is actually seeping under the cabin door.

They are still only hoping that the ship won’t go down though. They cannot guarantee it with any degree of certainty. If Russia turned off the gas and the petroleum dried up, France might have to stop selling nuclear generated electricity and then where would Europe be? America, while not relying on Russia and France for natural gas and electricity, would not be far behind in the queue to panic buy fossil fuels.

We need positive action from people with vision and determination. No politician from the Twentieth Century has proved that he or she has it. Don’t elect any of them any more. Try younger, hungrier, less wealthy candidates. What on Earth are we doing electing oil barons to fix a fuel crisis that they have presided over for a hundred years? And why are we electing members of rich banking families to fix a problem that the created?

The logic of the voting population in the United States and Europe is unfathomable. Except to politicians. They know that we have behaved stupidly in the past and sucked up all their lies and excuses. Let’s prove them wrong next time and send the buggers packing!

We, the citizens of the world do not need lying, thieving, corrupt and incompetent self-seekers to ruin or world for us. We can do that ourselves if we wanted to. Let’s give a new generation of young politicians a chance to run our economy, but keep a close eye on them.

Don’t let’s allow them to get away with anything like we did the last lot. We the voters took our eyes off the ball and look what we’ve got for our complacency a ruined environment and a ruined economy!

3. Nuclear Energy - Is It A Green Solution?

The West consumes far more than its fair share of fossil fuels. America has the highest per capita rate of consumption and it has to stop or rather be reduced. As a rich country, America is buying up rare resources from poor countries just because it has the money to be able to do so.

This sort of greedy behaviour by Western governments on behalf of its people is not only unfair, it is also immoral. It is tantamount to a rich family buying up black market goods during rationing while the rest of the population is struggling to do without. It is allowing the rich to do what they want and not caring about the future of the poorer countries.

This is bad enough, but the Western governments’ lack of a sensible energy policy is ruining the global environment. The greenhouse gases that are created ad nauseam in the West know no boundaries. Pollution can be airborne or travel by sea. We are polluting countries that are doing no or little harm to their own environment. How can that be fair?

Excessive greenhouse gases has the effect of warming the global climate in the air and in the sea. Those of us who live in cold countries may think that climate change is marvellous, but what about those people who live in hot countries? Their countries could become so hot or so dry through global warming that they can no longer produce enough food to feed themselves. That cannot be fair.

Smog and pollution go hand in hand with excessive greenhouse gases and they produce illness, especially respiratory diseases and allergies, but again, not only in the country that has produced the pollution. The excessive use of fossil fuels puts their price up too. Rich countries don’t like to have to pay more, but they can. /Poor countries must pay the same price, but cannot afford it.

Another problem that comes from being over-reliant on traditional fossil fuels is that none of the Western countries is self-sufficient in them. This means that Western industrial powers are reliant on and could be held to ransom by the net sellers of those fuels. The countries that sell fuel tend to be undeveloped, dictatorial, unstable countries. So in effect, it is these countries that call the shots in our countries and will continue to do so until we are self-reliant.

Many countries have turned to ‘traditional’ alternative energy sources like wind, solar and geothermal power, because nuclear power plants got a very bad press what with problems in the UK, Russia, America and Japan over the decades. However, the generation of nuclear power may be the only way forward when you consider the huge amounts of electricity that we need to continue and improve our lifestyles.

France and Finland among others have had very successful nuclear power plant strategies, so it seems that the time has come to take another look at using nuclear reactor stations to feed the national grid, while using solar, wind and geothermal power production locally.

4. Alternative Energy Overview

It seems like significant efforts to find the best alternative energy sources are being made by lots of countries as well as the USA and even many of America’s cities. One proof is the signing of the Kyoto Treaty, the foremost goal of which is to reduce greenhouse gases and pollutants.

Sustainable energy sources have proven to be of great help in reducing the amount of poisons, which are largely by-products of the use of fossil fuels. Sustainable sources also conserve the natural resources that people use as sources of energy. What are the most prevalent streams of renewable energy? Here’s a list to give you a basic knowledge of the topic.

1. Solar Power. This works by using the sun’s rays to charge solar power batteries. The process converts the light coming from the sun into electricity. When the sun’s rays hit solar thermal panels, the power is then used to heat air or water. The sun’s rays can also hit parabolic mirrors. This process can produce steam by heating water. But you don’t need all these scientific processes to be able to benefit from solar power. All you have to do is open the windows and blinds of your room to let the sunshine in. You’ll get an instantaneous heater without having to use any means for the conversion of this energy supply.

To date, the main disadvantage of using solar energy was that it is restricted. You cannot use it at night time or during days when it is raining or even cloudy. This has been partly improved through the use of solar power stations. But they are so expensive that there aren’t many about.

2. Wind Power. The energy in the wind turns the blades of wind turbines to produce electricity. Electricity is produced through the use of an electrical generator. In the old days, windmills were used so that machinery could replace human physical labour This included the pumping of water and the milling of grain which were important to farming.

Now there are large scale wind farms that produce electricity. The end product is then dispersed through the national grids and small systems owned by private individuals to distribute electricity to far-flung areas and homes. There are many benefits to this kind of power. The major one, of course, is that it doesn’t create any by-products detrimental to the environment. And we will never run out of this source of renewable energy.

3. Geothermal Energy. This comes from underground. Holes are drilled in key locations and the hot rocks beneath produce steam. This is then cleansed to be used to drive turbines. The latter then become a power source for electric generators.

To make sure that no harmful by-products are created in the procedure, geothermal plants must be designed carefully, but once they have been set up, they are self-sufficient in creating energy.

4. Hydroelectric Energy. This power is created through the use of dams that retain water to drive generators and water turbines. Tidal power can also be used if a dam