i need to do a project and i need a website that has info on why solar panels are more enviromentally friendly can you please give me some websites?
Lowers our needs for using fossil fuels
What are the environmental benefits of photovoltaics? Because they burn no fuel and have no moving parts, PV systems are clean and silent. This is especially important where the main alternatives for obtaining power and light are from diesel generators and kerosene lanterns. As we become more aware of greenhouse gases and their detrimental effects on our planet, clean energy alternatives like PV become more important than ever. The burning of fossil fuels degrades our environment. It even is managing to change the climate of the Earth itself. The supply of these fossil fuels is finite. Just, in the last century, humans have consumed nearly half of all of the oil that will ever be produced. Consider this in the context of 5000 years of human history. The hidden costs are immense, including tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, increased health costs, the long-term costs of climate change. Rising fossil fuel consumption (releasing carbon emissions) was once favorably looked upon as a measure of economic growth and development. Carbon emissions, estimated at 93 million tons in 1860, jumped to 525 million tons by 1900, and to 1.62 billion tons by 1950. At the end of 1994, the atmosphere contained 4 billion more tons of carbon than just 12 months earlier. Violent weather cost the world a record $130 Billion in the first eleven months of 1998- more money than was lost from weather related disasters from 1980 to 1990 ($82 Billion). Researchers from the Worldwatch Institute and Munich Re blame deforestation and climate change from Earth warming for much of the loss. The previous one year record was $90 Billion in 1996. Source – Associated Press, November 28,1998. Using solar energy instead of fossil fuels to meet some of our energy needs reduces emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. When solar energy displaces other energy sources with higher emissions levels, it produces a benefit in the form of reduced emissions of pollutants.
