| Solar panels have become extremely popular just | | | | through 2006 showed that solar power is 90% |
| in the past year due to rising energy prices and | | | | less polluting than power produced by fossil fuels, |
| renewed concern for the earth and its | | | | and the pollution that does come from |
| atmosphere. You can buy solar panel kits that | | | | manufacture and transport of solar cells ends |
| provide the materials you need for setting up | | | | after it is shipped and installed. If you make your |
| your home with solar panels. While many home | | | | own panels from kits you're doing your part to |
| solar kits won't put you "off the grid," they can | | | | minimize the impact of solar cell technology on the |
| definitely put a huge dent in your home energy | | | | environment. |
| costs. Here are 5 reasons to build your own solar | | | | 4. Ability to Customize Applications. There's almost |
| panels from kits. | | | | no limit to the number of common devices that |
| 1. Substantial Energy Savings. By supplementing | | | | can be powered by solar power from solar |
| home energy consumption with energy produced | | | | power kits: water heaters, satellites, landscaping |
| by solar panels from solar panel kits, you can cut | | | | lights, and even cars can be powered by solar |
| your energy bills in half. While solar home kits are | | | | energy. When people supplement their home's |
| not usually able to fully power a conventional | | | | power by building panels from solar panel kits, |
| home, they can make an enormous difference. | | | | they can customize how that home solar power |
| Make your own home solar power using solar | | | | is used. |
| power kits, and you save up front as well. | | | | 5. Availability Remotely. Running electric power |
| 2. Use of Renewable Energy. Once all the oil and | | | | lines to remote areas is not always the best way |
| gas are gone, they're gone for good. But solar | | | | to provide electricity to those areas. But there |
| power is renewable. | | | | are many remote areas, particularly in the desert, |
| Unless you plan to stick around for another five | | | | that can benefit greatly from using solar panels |
| billion years when the sun's lifetime will be over, | | | | from solar panel kits. A new home built to be |
| you'll have enough solar power for the rest of | | | | powered by solar panels can be self sufficient in |
| your life. Depending on your climate, solar energy | | | | terms of energy production and consumption. |
| from solar power kits can be very abundant and | | | | Even in areas with power lines nearby, solar may |
| go a long way toward reducing the use of fossil | | | | provide a viable alternative to connecting to the |
| fuels for generation of electricity. The more of | | | | electric grid. |
| the process you are able to undertake yourself, | | | | Home solar power is getting a tremendous boost |
| such as by building panels from solar panel kits, | | | | in popularity with government tax breaks in the |
| the smaller you make your own environmental | | | | United States, and also around the world as |
| footprint. | | | | people realize that alternatives to the use of fossil |
| 3. Lack of Pollution. Other than whatever fossil | | | | fuels are necessary for the health and future of |
| fuels were used in the creation of the solar panels | | | | the planet. Building solar panels from solar panel |
| themselves, solar panels do not cause air pollution. | | | | kits is one way people are taking environmental |
| Emissions data from 13 manufacturers of solar | | | | and energy concerns into their own hands. |
| cells in Europe and the United States from 2004 | | | | |