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| Solar panels at Luther College, Decorah, IA |
Think about it this way. We’re killing people in foreign lands in order to extract 200-million-year-old sunlight. Then we burn it . . . in order to boil water to create steam to drive a turbine to generate electricity. We frack our own backyards and pollute our rivers, or we blow up our mountaintops just miles from our nation’s capital for an hour of electricity, when we could just take what’s falling free from the sky.
He further states...
Humanity needs to be reminded that the sun’s putting out four hundred trillion trillion watts every second of every day, and we should tap that. Let’s wear it, be proud of it, push it. That’s the real motivation, I think. We’ve got to brand the sun.
Got sun, then why not tap into solar energy? We had a solar company come out to see if it might make sense for us to install panels on our home. Unfortunately we live by a hill and have too many large mature trees in our yard to make it worthwhile. Long winter months when the sun is low on the horizon doesn't help much either...
