| What can home owners really do when faced | | | | expensive and very inefficient. The amount of |
| with rising oil and energy prices which will no doubt | | | | electricity you can generate is minimal in |
| lead to an increase in what they currently spend | | | | comparison to the sheer cost of having |
| on their power bill? This may or may not be | | | | everything setup and installed. Many people admit |
| serious concern for home owners now, but when | | | | that they have to use their own home solar |
| you consider how high the price of oil went in the | | | | setup for at least 20 years before they start to |
| last two years it is not unreasonable to wonder | | | | really save any money. Wind power also suffers |
| how high it will go in the future and how much this | | | | from high cost but also a space requirement |
| will affect home owners. The obvious solution to | | | | problem. For wind power to generate any |
| putting an end to how much you spend on your | | | | significant amounts of electricity a large amount |
| monthly power bill is to reduce your reliance on | | | | of space is required in which to install turbines. |
| utility companies. However, just how can you | | | | This quickly rules out this alternative power |
| achieve this? More mainstream solutions appear in | | | | solution because home owners just don't have |
| the form of solar or wind power with some | | | | the acres of land required to install the turbines |
| people even going to the extreme of not using | | | | on. |
| any electricity in their home at all. The good news | | | | What this leaves us with is the need for a home |
| is that you don't have to stop using electricity to | | | | energy solution that is cheap enough to make it |
| reduce your power bill, but the solution doesn't lie | | | | efficient and affordable and small enough so that |
| in either solar or wind power. | | | | the majority of home owners around the world |
| Solar and wind power are age old green | | | | can take advantage of it. With solar and wind |
| technologies that have promised home owners | | | | power out of the race it leaves us with one new |
| the ability to reduce their power bill and create | | | | invention that fits the bill quite nicely. Magnetic |
| clean or green electricity to help save the planet | | | | generators, while still relatively unheard of in the |
| and offset global warming. It sounds great in | | | | mainstream media, offer home owners a real |
| theory but a quick look out your window will | | | | chance at producing cheap electricity from their |
| reveal how solar and wind power have failed at | | | | very own home. Their low cost is attributed to |
| the home owner level. Neither of these | | | | magnets being their source of power and as such |
| technologies has been adopted on a large scale | | | | they require very little space. These two factors |
| and the cause of this stems from a couple of | | | | combined give home owners a real chance at |
| reasons. The first is that solar power is extremely | | | | slashing their power bill for very little money. |