The truth is that the world today has reached a very high level of technology, but, while this is comforting for most of the people, it is also an issue for many people who are concerned with the fact that all this technology is using too much energy. Like it or not, the Earth’s resources are not unlimited and, at the moment, we draw most of our energy needs out of non-renewable sources. Is there an actual solution to this problem? Apparently, scientists have come up with something. Read on and find out what it is.
Solar Farm Mountains (Creative Commons)
Renewable Sources of Energy
For quite a while now, people have been aware of the fact that other than coal and oil, there are some sources of energy that are renewable. Energy produced by wind power, energy produced by solar power and energy produced by the power of waters are definitely among the most well-known ones out there. Solar energy, for example, requires the installation of special panels that collect energy from the solar light and transform it in energy that can be used by most of the appliances and devices.
Solar energy is by far the most reachable types of renewable energy out there because, well, sun reaches the entire surface of the Earth and you don’t need heavy winds or rapid waters to create it. However, it used to come with 2 major downfalls as well: it was difficult to create large-scale energy this way and it is too expensive for most of the people to actually be able to afford it.
Solar Panels (Creative Commons)
A New Type of Solar Technology
Apparently, scientists knew about these disadvantages and thought of ways to counter-balance them. And they came up with a new solar technology, called V3 Solar. According to the statements made up to now, it is 3 times cheaper than regular solar panels, which basically makes it accessible for most of the households.
Also, old solar panels used to be too flat and they lost a lot of solar energy, which added to their ineffectiveness. This new technology, however, is built to be slightly bent, so that it can catch up all the sunlight and transform it into energy to its maximum potential.
All in all, this new type of solar energy technology can actually be our key to the future and to building a sustainable balance between our need for technology that uses power and our Planet’s needs as well.