Sunday, January 27, 2008

Alternative Energy For The Home

The trend towards homes that are powered by alternative sources of energy, from wind turbines and solar cells collection of hydrogen fuel cells, biomass and wind, it is one that must be followed in the 21 st century and beyond. We have great need to be more independent of energy, and not having to rely on the supply of fossil fuels unstable nations that are often hostile to us and our interests. But even beyond this factor, as individuals need to obtain "off-network" and also have to stop being so dependent on government lobbying giant oil companies, while they are not really involved in any covert conspiracy, however, have a stranglehold on the people when it comes to heating their homes (and, if not for oil, then usually the heat supplied by the network driven by electricity, another bottleneck).

As Remi Wilkinson, Senior Analyst with Carbon Free, puts it, inevitably, the growth of distributed generation will lead to the restructuring of the retail electricity market and the generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure. The power providers may have to diversify their business to compensate for the lost revenue through micro energy in the home. She refers to the findings of a group of analysts in the United Kingdom, including herself among them, who call themselves free of carbon. Free carbon has been studying the growing trend towards the use of alternative energies-homes in England and the West. This trend is being driven by government increasingly recommendation, and sometimes support alternative energy research and development, the rising cost of oil and other fossil fuels, concerns about environmental degradation, and wishes to be independent of energy. Free carbon concludes that, assuming energy prices remain at their current level traditional or place, microgeneration (meeting of all the housing needs of energy through the installation of alternative energy technology, as solar panels or wind turbines) will become the power supply to the house what became the Internet House communications and data collection, and eventually this will have profound effects on the business firms existing energy supplies.

Analyses of carbon Free also show that the companies themselves have grown in power in the game and try to take advantage of micro own benefit for opening new markets for themselves. Carbon Free cites the example of the electricity companies (in the UK) reported that they are seriously researching and developing new ideas for geothermal energy facilities, as these companies see geothermal energy production as a highly profitable wave future. Another finding was that carbon-free solar hot water heating is efficient technology for technology to reduce the costs of heating water to property in the long term, although it is initially very expensive to install. However, solar energy is still not cost-effective for businesses, as they require too much in the way of specialized plumbing to implement solar heating of hot water. Finally, carbon Free tells us that the installation of wind turbines is an effective way to reduce the cost of electricity in at the same time be more independent. However, once again this is a principle very expensive to be installed, and companies would do well to begin slashing their prices of these devices or could find themselves losing market share.

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