Thursday, April 22, 2010

A Solar Powered Home

There are ten different types of energy: biomass, coal, geothermal, hydropower, natural gas, petroleum, propane, solar, uranium, and wind! Now, if I decide to move away from West Virginia, I would want to stay in either Florida or South Carolina. If I had to chose an energy source to build my dream house in Florida, it would be solar energy. I think that solar energy is a very good energy source. Especially since I will be living in Florida, where all the sun shines and it rarely gets cold. One really good thing about this source is that it does not pollute the air. Also, it is free and it's a renewable source. I know that some people disagree with me when I say that I think that solar energy is the best because I also agree with thim in some way. Solar energy may be good for the environment, but not always will the sun be shining, so it's harder to capture. So, that means when the sun isn't shining, not much energy is being released! Their is a solution to this and it is that we could use the plants that store the suns energy! You also need a solar panel installed into your house before you can actually use the source. That may be a bad thing because solar panels are very expensive and take up alot of space, but I'm sure that scientists will some day be able to fix that problem by making smaller solar panels and solar sysyems. So, whenever I do decide to build my dream house, I will decide to use solar energy. Even though it has some disadvantages, I would still love to try it out and see how it goes. I could always change it if I wanted, because my dream house is also going to be located beside a river or lake, so I could use hydropower if I needed to!

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