What is so good about Solar power?
Image by UNDP in Europe and Central Asia
Cost-effective pasture management practices in Kyrgyzstan are helping to reduce negative impacts of livestock grazing on land and improve rural livelihoods.
The project is also working on attracting farmers to distant pastures by installing green technologies, including six mini hydropower stations and 18 solar energy stations. This equipment helps to improve the livelihoods of families and shepherds working in distant pastures.
Find out more about farmers gaining access to traditional lands for growing crops in Kyrygzstan
Photo courtesy of UNDP in Kyrgyzstan
Question by shella: What is so good about Solar power?
how is solar power efficient to homes and families and what is so great about it?
thanks!
Feel free to answer in the comment section below
8 Responses to What is so good about Solar power?
Leave a Reply
In theory it is free emission free. But that is theory. Limited to few hours of daily production weather permitting, regional limitations. Nice for watches and calculators
Bobby
August 2, 2013 at 4:03 pm
The sun is free, last time I checked.
Trix
August 2, 2013 at 4:14 pm
from what i’ve heard THE GOOD- it lowers your electricity bill and is environmentally friendly
THE BAD- it costs a lot of money,time, and energy to set up.
Junior
August 2, 2013 at 4:21 pm
+Can produce a significant amount of power without using up any new land (you can put it on roofs etc).
+Reduces fuel consumption and therefore the amount you have to import from foreign countries.
+Releases very little in the way of CO2 and air pollution (there’s a chunk in manufacturing, but per unit of electricity you produce it’s something like 95%+ lower than coal)
+Fuel is free, so you’re protected against price volatility
+Silent and unobtrusive in operation, requires very little maintenance. (wind turbines can be noisy, wood fired stuff requires effort and storage for wood)
+in countries like the US, peak electricity demand is during the hot days for A/C and the likes, when solar produces the most power. It tends to produce the most power when peak electricity prices are on.
-expensive (prices are coming down, but we’re still a while away from it being affordable for most)
-depends on sunshine for power produced, doesn’t produce at night.
MTRstudent
August 2, 2013 at 4:46 pm
After you have bought your solar panel – the pwer is free free free – great news.
porker70
August 2, 2013 at 5:26 pm
It will never run out, it’s clean, it can become very cheap, we don’t have to depend on other countries that don’t like us.
Dismal River Frank
August 2, 2013 at 6:03 pm
Solar power can efficiently supply residential needs and you can expect a return on investment in 5-6 years, taking into account tax credits
http://www.solar-energy-for-home.com/residential-solar-power.html
Solar power reduces the carbon foot print and the air pollution
http://www.solar-energy-for-home.com/advantages-of-solar-energy.html
Yaacov
August 2, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Solar power is awesome because it will never go away! The sun will always continue to shine, so we will never run out of the energy that it can supply us.
You can read all about solar energy here:
http://www.greenstudentu.com/encyclopedia/energy/solar
GreenGal80
August 2, 2013 at 7:00 pm