You probably know the sun generates more than 10,000 times the amount of energy the entire world consumes annually. Yet, this “free” energy has remained greatly untapped. Conversely, the environment is being degraded by our current energy choices. The positives for using solar panels are obvious, but what few know is how it also helps our environment.
First lets look at what we are using currently to meet our energy needs, coal and nuclear energy, and how ecologically damaging they are.
With us having to research so much information about solar and other renewable energy we came across an enormous number of articles in which no respect is given to the units of measure in which electric power and energy are being measured. In actual fact when the correct units of measure are not used the statements do not make any sense.
What do we mean? Much too often watt hour (Wh) and the derivatives kilowatts hour (kWh) and megawatts hour (MWh) – as a measure of produced energy – are used wrongly instead of watt (W) or it’s derivatives kilowatt (kW) and megawatt (MW) and the other way around.
