The Truth About Solar Energy

The Truth About Solar Energy 03 19 2010

I wasn’t going to publish this one until I saw this solar panel array on Green Bay Avenue and Florist, in Milwaukee WI, on a visit to my mother recently.

I put a solar panel on my roof several years ago. It is about the size of a laptop screen and powers an electric fan motor in the attic. That motor is about the same size as the ones in your gas furnace or refrigerator. Now remember your refrigerator is said to use more electricity than anything else in your house.

If everyone covered their roofs with these the air would be cleaner and fish which are the healthiest thing for a human being to eat would be free of Mercury- one of the most poisonous things to eat. Mercury a byproduct of coal produced electricity throughout the world. This house based solar panel array could be used charge electric powered cars also. Cars being another polluter of chemicals hazardous to human health. Why are there no cars with solar panels integrated into the body panels, what kind of a car do we need to get to the fashionable grocery store anyway.

Now I know what you are saying, they’ve done statistical studies and there is not enough sun in Wisconsin. During the daytime the fan directly powered by the solar panel always seems to be running.

Now the next thing you’re going to say is, "What if there is no sun that day?" Well then there is a third component to the system. It is a battery backup that is charged via the panels from when there is sun. So instead of drawing from the coal source you are drawing from your onsite battery storage that was charged via the panels. The easiest, cheapest and most recyclable solution is a series of sealed lead acid batteries. Sealed means they don’t evaporate sulfuric acid into your house.

If demand where to be created, there are new battery technologies that are virtually environmentally benign. A company in Menomonee Falls WI produces Zinc Bromide based batteries that is an excellent technology that fits this category. Some day this technology may be scaled down to fit the average consumer. Bromine is an additive to many soft drinks for those of you who like to look at labels. And Zinc that is a healthy mineral especially for men. The Companies symbol is ZBB.

Now what you are going to say is, "Who wants those ugly panels on their roofs?" Well Solar cell technologies have come a long way, there are panels that do not weigh heavy on existing construction and there are going to be panels that have the same look and function as a roofing shingle. So you have duplicitously killed two birds with one stone when you replace your roofing shingles with Photovoltaic roofing shingles. This technology is also on its way. The symbol of a company to be a likely leader in this field is ENER.

The problem here, how to we coordinate the installation of these with the electrician? Us tipsy’s just don’t have any coordination at all.

Now I only have one solar panel. The space on the roof of my house and garage could probably fit 1600 of these. Well you do the math; the electric company usually pays more for electricity you sell them than what they charge you. You read that right. When the system is tied to the electric grid which means it’s like the community cup in terms of who could benefit from its use.

If we were to take the energy costs out of the income statements of our corporations we would be more competitive with foreign countries that make things with cheap labor and sell it to us in return. They also pollute our oceans with smog containing mercury residue, which contaminates fish we eat. Fish again being the healthiest thing for a human being to eat.

Our health care costs would be reduced through expanded use. Only a tiny amount of Mercury is toxic to us and remember what happens when mercury heats up, it expands greatly doesn’t it. So it’s toxic reach is expanded in our bodies, keep cool buddies on those hot days when the barometric pressure is fluctuating because that mercury inside you will be changing also, changing you and us and not for the better.

And that democratic president the republicans just couldn’t stand, Jimmy Carter, he was taking us in this direction thirty years ago. With this alternative energy implementation we’d live longer healthier lives and would be forced to compete with each other through all those “Lost Arts”. Now that last sentence is why this will never happen.

Does mercury poisoning make all illnesses worse, even Alzheimer’s? Yes Ronald it does, because it is a poison. Look up the definition of that, poison, before you reduce our government to the point where someone classifies it as something else.

Those big Strong Texas Republican oil men look what they’ve done for us. Can we thank them enough?

Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy