| Dreaming and fantasizing are the first step | | | | wish to switch to solar energy for their home use. |
| towards innovation. People all over the world and | | | | Scientists all over the world say that the future |
| especially in America are dreaming of a green | | | | lies with solar energy. Using solar energy for |
| world where there will be only solar power | | | | home use like heating, cooking, driving car and for |
| energizing the needs of the entire country. | | | | all other uses like charging your mobile phone, |
| Experts feel that in five years, solar power will be | | | | street lights and heating the swimming pool and |
| cheap enough to compete with conventional | | | | powering your computer will become a way of |
| electricity, even in UK, Africa, Australia and India. | | | | life. |
| If that is the case more and more people will use | | | | Just as the saying goes that sun never stops |
| solar energy in their homes. In a decade, the cost | | | | shining in California, a solar energy home will never |
| may have fallen so dramatically that solar cells | | | | lack the power required to run the house. |
| could undercut oil, gas and coal. Technology is | | | | China is another country which is fast using this |
| leaping ahead towards eco friendly, pollution free | | | | solar technology for its future growth. Japan |
| and a green future with the advent of solar | | | | already is moving in the direction of saving its |
| energy homes. | | | | excess power and the government there is |
| Companies producing solar products feel that the | | | | helping device methods to save money on fuel. |
| day is not so far off when all the cities in America | | | | The future of solar energy homes is spreading |
| and Europe generate their heating, lighting and | | | | rapidly in the east. The Ministry of |
| air-conditioning needs from solar energy for their | | | | Non-Conventional Energy is formulating a program |
| homes and on buildings with enough left over to | | | | to introduce solar energy to more than a million |
| feed a surplus back into the grid. | | | | homes in the next few years. |
| A piece of dark polymer foil, as thin a sheet of | | | | India has long days and plenty of sunshine, |
| paper can cause this wonder. It is 200 times | | | | especially in the Thar Desert region of Rajastan. |
| lighter than the normal glass-based solar materials, | | | | With abundant solar energy available, this zone is |
| which require expensive substrates and roof | | | | attracting attention from the Indian government |
| support. Indeed, it is so light it can be stuck to the | | | | for its research purposes. Solar energy is being |
| sides of buildings. | | | | used in India for heating water for both industrial |
| This can be mass-produced in cheap rolls like | | | | and domestic purposes. |
| packaging and can be in any color to go with the | | | | Human beings may not be trustworthy but the |
| structure and design of the solar energy home. It | | | | sun is always kind and generous to mankind in |
| will be the icing on the cake when the capital cost | | | | general. Let's hope the future of solar energy |
| of solar power falls below the rate of oil or gas. | | | | homes all over the world is not very far away. |
| That will be the day when every individual would | | | | |