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It warms our faces and grows our food; the sun is our life blood and gives us everything that we need to live. Using its potency, however, has escaped the worlds population, or at least until recently. Harnessing the sun’s full potential may be a long way into the future, but until engineering shows us the true possibilities of the sun’s power we can use what we have as a matter of necessity, economic need and personal responsibility.

Perhaps you are happy with what’s going on today. Maybe you feel all is fine and you don’t feel the need to change a system that’s worked for over a century. If you do, consider a few of these benefits to solar power and you may just recognize its potential in a somewhat more responsible, yet selfish, light.

But I don’t really care about the current state of affairs? Perhaps everything in the world is o.k. as far as you are concerned. The very last thing you give a damn about are plants, fresh air and clean water. Heck, the water shows up every time you turn on a faucet, the furnace comes on when it’s cool, the light switch brings you bright light. What’s there to worry about? Consider that this is just the problem. If you don’t care for the your surroundings, the faucet may not bring you clean water, the heating may not go on and the car certainly won’t start. If the environment is kept immaculate and left to do what it was intended to do, everything would continue to work fine. But get in its way and everything you thought was hunky-dory won’t be for long.

Cost savings - One of the most wonderful things about taking care of the suns ability to serve its rightful purpose is that it saves you money in the long run. Once solar panels are procured and installed, they cost little, if anything to operate. In most instances, the government will even help to pay for the upfront costs of installing the system through tax incentives. Additionally, power companies in most regions are required to pay you for energy that you have generated and not used. Yes, you read correctly, the power company will pay you!

Makes Financial Sense - In most instances, 85% of the northern hemisphere can generate enough solar energy to run and heat their homes with existing solar systems. This means that whatever is left over goes back to the power grid if you so choose. Just think of your electricity meter running backwards. The extra power you need for that cloudy day is stored in ever more efficient batteries. Most current users claim that the use of solar energy systems only takes a little thought in energy management.

Take Yourself Off the grid - Depending upon how you see things, one of the best reasons to use solar systems is that you can jump off the ‘power grid’ so to speak. Many people don’t enjoy being a part of the social collective that is interconnectivity. Going photovoltaic takes you away from this one aspect of community and puts you closer to self reliance which is a great thing.

Versatility - Even though the solar power generation systems of today have come a long way in providing power, heat and a host of other services there is a long way to go. This is not to indicate, however, that solar electricity is not currently versatile in form and function. Solar modules can currently be formed into thin sheets for vehicle top electric powered vehicles. They can cover suburban rooftops and not be noticed, unlike those 1990s units. Prices are also coming down, almost as fast as the TVs of today.

Personal responsibility - Past the cost benefits and environmental benefits that solar power brings you should consider using it because you are part of a greater social order that will procreate. Man has not been on this planet for all that long and is doing its best to end its run in one way or another. If you would like to give your children’s children a better chance at continuing the species’ run on this planet, solar electricity is one small contribution that you can make all by your self.

One way to reach the goal of preserving all the creature comforts of home working properly is by using other sources of power production like solar, and not producing nasty things that get in the way of the planet doing its job. Most present-day sources of power include carbon based fossil fuels such as petrol which are derived from dead plants. Environmentally responsible power, heat and transport come from living or energized things like h2O and O2 molecules. The Sun’s rays can be turned directly into electricity and used to power your suv, heat your house and generate your light. But to make the process work, you need to be able to see the sun, which means taking care of the environment and not getting in its way.