Tittle of the Article: Here Comes The Sun Shower.Author: Larry Hunter
Date of Publication: February 9, 2009
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/opinion/10hunter.html?ref=opinion
Gabriela Garcia Fernandez.
The Obama Administration will launch a program to develop renewable enery sources. It is expected that the program will also create jobs at the same time that it will serve to limit pollution by the use of sun's energy for solar hot-water systems, which is nowadays a well developed and relatively low-tech method.This method is an alternative to the electricity generating solar panels and it is believed to be more effective than the later.
Hot water systems can create the same amount of useful energy with fewer panels than the electricity generating solar panels method. Another advantage of hot water systems is that the cost to install it, is cheeper in comparision to solar panels. The hot water system also works better than panles in areas where there are less hours of solar sunlight.This means that in places like the southwest where there are more hours of direct sunlight per day much more energy can be produced.All these benefits make the hot water system a more effective method than the solar panels which are almost useless in some places of the world.
Since January, the government of the US is helping the homeowners of these systems with 30% of the install system cost for both, hot water and solar panels systems. Beside of the differences betwen them, the basic idea of the program is to encourage society to use sustainable energy which has no side effects for our natural environment.
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