Today, yet another set of miners died in the USA, all in the name of the pursuit of energy.
If you think about the benefits of renewables, we can’t ignore two specific areas where solar power delivers far more than traditional carbon emitting sources: safety and security.
There are no mines to dig, oil wells to drill or dams to put up with solar power. Imagine the day when each house becomes its own solar power generator. You’d eliminate the risk of electro-magnetic fields caused by power lines that are close to where your kids play. Nothing could be more safe.
As for security, think about the lives lost in sea drilling platforms, mines or oil pipeline explosions, that you have heard about just in the past year. And it would take just one nuclear power plant to be successfully targeted for a major disaster to occur in our homeland.
The case for solar power becomes even more compelling than a simple environmental one. The fact is that there is no safer nor more secure power source than the sun, millions of miles away, providing the photons that solar power cells can convert into something that will provide you and your family the warmth, light, breeze, or entertainment power you seek.
Meantime, we all sympathize and extend our wishes of condolences to those whose loved ones have perished in the pursuit of cheap, polluting power.
With the power source choices that our society now enjoys, we must ask ourselves “why” we continue to pursue the “dark” side of power.
Sass Peress
PS. I will not use this message to promote anything my company does. I just want us all to think hard about the policies we want our governments to pursue in the name of providing us with the energy we need.