If you are in search of ways to create wind power at home, it means that you have taken the first step in the right direction. All over the world, people are slowly realizing the perils of using too much of coal based and oil based energy and are slowly shifting to clean and green energy. Moreover, with the economy being in a very bad shape, people are looking to cut down their expenses and live within their means. One simple way to do it is switching to a cheaper source of energy and spending less money on electric bills.

One of the simplest ways to create wind power at home is installing wind turbines. By setting up a small scale wind turbine in your home, you can generate electricity without any hassles. As a result, you can cut down your electric bill drastically and save lots of money.

We’re facing many challenges these days, but one of the ones that affects each and every one of us, to some extent or another, is pollution resulting from the ever-increasing amount of carbon emissions being released into the atmosphere and the resultant global warming.

Global warming is one of the prime motivators in the rapid increase in interest in the adoption of all forms of renewable energy and the push behind the even more rapid increase in the use of solar energy as a means to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Doing so will reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being emitted and hopefully slow down, and maybe even halt, the further devastation caused by global warming.

Solar v Fossil Fuels – Battle Of The Giants!

The great thing about solar energy is that it is free energy that comes to us consistently, day in, day out, from the sun, so it’s just a matter of tapping into that free energy. Not only that, it doesn’t cause any pollution. Compare that with fossil fuels, the supply of which is diminishing rapidly and which cause massive amounts of pollution.

The rise in the cost of fossil fuels is directly impacting us, the consumers, in the form of ever-increasing electricity bills, among other things. That’s one of the reasons so many people are becoming more interested in taking advantage of solar technology by having a solar electric system installed in their home to reduce, or even eliminate, these increasingly burdensome electricity bills.

Solar electric systems have no moving parts and do not produce any carbon emissions, so, not only do they result in lower electricity bills, but reduced pollution and, hopefully, a halt to global warming.

Overabundance Of Energy

The sun supplies solar energy every day – even on the most cloudy days – and, in fact, provides several thousand times more energy in one day than the whole planet uses in one year. We’re currently tapping into a minute fraction of the solar energy available to us, but, fortunately, most countries and governments are now waking up to the real threat presented by carbon emissions and the incredible opportunity solar energy presents.

The number of applications being powered by solar energy is increasing rapidly, and now extends to transportation, including boats, planes and, although this technology is still in its infancy and is basically experimental, cars.

All this will increase our use of solar energy and reduce the amount that goes to waste, but we’re still only scratching the surface.

A Solar Future

There’s little doubt that all forms of renewable energy will become more prevalent in the future, which can only benefit both us and the planet. But, the renewable that will get the most attention will probably be solar, just because of the massive potential it holds for good.

Solar energy is already infiltrating our daily lives, as we see more and more rooftops with solar panels on them, and you don’t have to wait long before you see or read or hear a news item related to solar. This will only increase in the future, as more and more everyday uses are found for solar energy, and that has to be a good thing.

There are many reasons why we should and do use solar energy, but the most pressing one is the increase in pollution caused by fossil fuels and the resultant impact on life and the planet in the form of global warming. Now is the time for us to wean ourselves off our dependence on fossil fuels and take advantage of the sun’s abundant energy. After all, it’s there for us to use, so let’s do just that.

Much of the world today is highly dependent on fossil fuels to run their economies. Highly industrialized nations have never put a cap on how much they can really take before they suffer the consequences. The global community will experience a head-on collision with mother nature eventually if international leaders cannot come up with a realistic solution to global warming. It is this threat that results from the burning of the highly efficient and widely used cheap source of energy – the fossil fuels, that affects every facet of human life as we know it today.

We have already faced the effects of global warming and yet we are still turning a blind eye on what is happening today. The devastating results of 3 typhoons in the Philippines in 2009 alone brought billions of pesos in damages to public property as well as placing undue pressure on the local economy. Now, power outages and rotating brownouts are threatening the entire Luzon economic scene and the Metro Manila financial hub.

There are, however, many ways to alternative sources of energy it is just that we are unwilling to develop it. The petroleum giants are not willing to put their resources to build, improve, and market renewable energy because, obviously, they do not really care. These multi-billion dollar companies are just so greedy that they do not realize the potential disaster they will face in the near future.

Real estate developers should also look into energy-efficient homes. These so-called eco-friendly homes are the trend of the future. Solar panel installed rooftops is feasible. We can save more on electric bills by utilizing solar energy. Water recycling can also be doable as long as our government and its citizenry are willing to set their minds on it. Extensive waste management and recycling should also be our primary goals. At the forefront of our economy of the future are ideas like these.

It has been four decades since we began to look for renewable energy. The plan to find other sources of energy brought about by the energy crises, inflation, and the rising price of oil in the early 70’s has been going on for more than forty years, but this project has not yet been fully realized by the global industry. The potential large-scale application of this plan might yet be feasible for years to come.

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be” ~ Abraham Maslow

We were having an argument, but it was one of those arguments you can have with a l friend – polite, yet spirited. My friend is a great guy who has dedicated his life to teaching reading, math and science to government school children in Tamil Nadu. He has had a positive impact on thousands of kids over the last decade. But I was putting him on the spot.

“Why are you trying to make everyone an IIT aspirant” I asked him. “Are there not other careers which may be more in line with their natural talents?”

“Yes, there are other possible careers for many kids,” he conceded. “But their parents and peer groups value math and science most. They are afraid their child is dumb if he or she doesn’t score good marks in these subjects. I’ve got to concentrate on math and science to build self-worth in the child.” I was still thinking about this later that day when my wife Girija and I visited my mother. We got chatting with the housekeeper, whose 12-year-old son is in 7th grade in a nearby government school.

The housekeeper complained that her son, although standing 4th in his class, got his highest marks in English and Math, which he liked, while barely achieving pass marks in the other subjects like science, social science and Tamil. She wanted him to go to college, but the boy did not seem very interested in academics; he was more interested in working with on carpentry and other crafts.

I recalled our conversation with Panchayat President Elango about the youth in Kuthambakkam village, and how so many of their parents view education as some kind of a passport to upward mobility. And, in some cases, it is. However, many villages are having problems with youths who fail 10th grade public exams – and then think themselves too good for farm work or other manual labor but cannot get better jobs. These youth tend to hang about as wastrels, living off their parents and falling prey to any corrupting influence in the village.

I am convinced that every human being on earth is born with innate gifts and talents. With effort and guidance, everyone can discover his or her own calling – we each have our own path to excel and make a mark in this world. Unfortunately, our education system interferes with this process with its “one size fits all” approach.

Further, society and economies create their own complications, especially in India, by glorifying and rewarding certain vocations more than others. It’s sad: the further one is from producing something useful to the world, the more the person earns. Thus a person who produces goods and services is worth ‘x”. The person who markets and creates a business out of these goods and services earns ‘10x’. And the person who provides the financial inputs to this venture earns ‘100x’!

The question we need to ask ourselves – and argue, cordially, with our friends and family – is whether this distortion of value needs to persist in the Connected Age – with its reduced asymmetry of information and opportunities. Will the New Age bring new opportunities to pursue one’s true calling and make a good living by doing so, rather than having to pursue specific professions purely for the money, but with no joy?

Will our education system be able to honor the individuality and uniqueness of every one of us, and nurture it rather than lock us to the lowest common denominator under the pretext of leaving no child behind? These are questions that I’d like us to discuss, politely and rationally, as a community.

Global warming is a hard fact that probably none of us would wish to deal with. But let’s face it, it is real and it is happening at a pace neither one of us can comprehend and control. With the increase in temperature over the years, it’s no wonder that ice are melting over at North and South pole. But there are many things about global climate changes that are still unknown to us, what we do know is that if this continue, inevitably human race will be wiped off from the face of the earth.

So exactly what sort of dangers that global warming pose?

Melting of ice over at each end of our poles does not only affects animals living there. It has a global effect in which sea level will rise, as well as the temperatures. When that happen, animals either lose their habitat, or are unable to cope with the sudden change in temperature and thus will be extinct. Food chains will also be disturbed, given that we humans depend a lot on our marine life to keep the balance in check, it will not be a pretty scene.

With that in mind, can you imagine if the ice do not stop melting and the sea level just continue to rise? Within a short period of time, it’s not hard to predict that countries and island that are situated on lowly lands will be completely covered in sea. Currently, there are countries that are already reporting a rise in their sea level, as well as island sinking a couple of inches each year.

Severe hurricanes and thunderstorms are also predicted to happen as a result of that, and unfortunately not every country or every where are equipped with state of the art technology that can handle and take precaution against such happening, casualties will be inevitable.

With a change in climate and temperature, it could very well affect the chance of spreading new disease that were evolved from this climate change. Diseases and viruses evolves, can our technology and scientist keep up to combat them?

Rise in temperature will also no doubt have a negative impact on various crops life. Higher temperature will promote more rain falls and also less snow. Certain crops varieties that depends on cold weather will certainly suffer as we get hotter and hotter each year.

Global warming is without a doubt, a real life scenario that are caused by human activities. Release of carbon monoxide into the atmosphere have picked up since the 1970s and we have seen some of our worst disaster happened since then. Therefore, we should definitely do what we can and afford, by cutting down emission of carbon monoxide and stopping the waste of earth resources, we can make a difference.