The problems facing humanity today include the melting of arctic sea ice, the potential ocean stagnation, the mass displacement of humans from coastal cities, extreme droughts, to super storms. All these problems arise from global climate change stemming from the emittance of greenhouse gases. Some people believe these climate changes are not affected by human behavior, and that changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions do not need to happen. I believe we don’t have time to wait and see if global climate change is human caused, when we have species of animals going extinct and superstorms of various sorts killing people and displacing others from their homes. The goal of this paper is to raise awareness that the Unites States can take viable
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The lack of solar power stems from solar panels containing qualities that make them incompatible with the energy grid. The first quality solar panels posses that make them incompatible with the energy grid is the type of electricity produced by solar panels does not match up with the type of electricity the grid runs on. The second property that solar panels possess that makes them unsuitable for the energy grid is the variability of the energy generation from solar panels. A research team at the university of Osaka in Japan has set to making solar power a more practical means of energy generation through revolutionizing the energy grid. The energy grid today connects large numbers of people over large distances to large scale power generation plants. Not only does the large scale of the grid contributes to energy losses in transmission totaling to six percent annually (How much enrgy. lost...), but the transfer of energy over the large distances in the grid must operate on AC power. This AC power must be converted back into DC power after it enters one 's home for almost all applications, save large motors and fluorescent lights. Solar panels produce DC power, so when solar panel produce electricity the system in effect takes DC energy converts it to AC energy transports it thousands of miles, to be converted back to DC. Every conversion and transportation causes losses to the total energy obtained; this is where the Osaka research team set to try and change the grid. They have proposed a new system called the DC microgrid where residential complexes form to make a microgrid that is self contained, all DC, totally disconnected from the grid, and controlled by a main smartconsole. The research team found that in a standard 20 person residential complex, that an all DC system reduced energy losses by fifteen percent, and could further
The lack of solar power stems from solar panels containing qualities that make them incompatible with the energy grid. The first quality solar panels posses that make them incompatible with the energy grid is the type of electricity produced by solar panels does not match up with the type of electricity the grid runs on. The second property that solar panels possess that makes them unsuitable for the energy grid is the variability of the energy generation from solar panels. A research team at the university of Osaka in Japan has set to making solar power a more practical means of energy generation through revolutionizing the energy grid. The energy grid today connects large numbers of people over large distances to large scale power generation plants. Not only does the large scale of the grid contributes to energy losses in transmission totaling to six percent annually (How much enrgy. lost...), but the transfer of energy over the large distances in the grid must operate on AC power. This AC power must be converted back into DC power after it enters one 's home for almost all applications, save large motors and fluorescent lights. Solar panels produce DC power, so when solar panel produce electricity the system in effect takes DC energy converts it to AC energy transports it thousands of miles, to be converted back to DC. Every conversion and transportation causes losses to the total energy obtained; this is where the Osaka research team set to try and change the grid. They have proposed a new system called the DC microgrid where residential complexes form to make a microgrid that is self contained, all DC, totally disconnected from the grid, and controlled by a main smartconsole. The research team found that in a standard 20 person residential complex, that an all DC system reduced energy losses by fifteen percent, and could further