Advantages and Disadvantages of Renewable Energy

With the rising costs of fuel, fuel oil, and electricity these days many people are beginning to wonder what the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy are. Some wonder if it is worth considering them for home use, and some are even beginning to seriously consider using renewable energy to help reduce their power bill.

The main advantage of using renewable energy sources, is obvious when you think about the word, renewable. Renewable means it will never run out, at least not for billions of years when the sun burns out. Another advantage, and everyone should like this, they are free to everyone that wishes to use them, and if you produce an excessive amount of power, you can sell it back to the power company. As you can see, this can be a very huge advantage.

Other advantages are they reduce the need for fossil fuels which, we all know are known to pollute the earth as well as break down the ozone layer. The longer we continue to use these types of fuel the more the atmosphere gets polluted and the more the ozone layer gets broken down. The more the ozone layer gets broken down, the more of the suns harmful radiation gets through, and if it continues, eventually the earth will become unlivable.

Of course the chance of that happening in our life time is slim however, do you really want your children's children to grow up in a toxic world that has no chance of recovery. This is where we are headed if we do not change our ways, and it is not just the atmosphere we need to worry about.

So, as far as advantages go, we have the advantage of them being non exhaustible as long as the sun burns, they are free or can even make money for anyone that implements them, and last, but most important, they are environmentally friendly.

Now let us take a look at some of the disadvantages of using renewable energy sources. Cost of implementation could be a disadvantage, if it was not for the advancements made in technology in the past decade which, make implementation affordable. Once implemented you can recover the implementation costs within a few years with the money you will save on the power bill. If your system makes more power than you use, and you sell the extra back to the power company, you will recoup the cost even faster.

I sit here and try to think about disadvantages but, my mind draws a blank as there really are no disadvantages. Using the sun or wind for energy is free to everyone, they do not pollute, and they can actually make you money so, it is a win-win situation for everyone as well as for the environment.

So, what in the world, are you waiting for; start using these free renewable energy sources now then, when the non-renewable sources run out, and they will, you will not be left in the dark like the rest of the world. Click here and discover what I used to help implement the use of solar power, and now I am working on implementing the use of wind power as well.