Electricity Should Cost Far Less Than It Does Today
Tagged with electricity, garbage, solar, uv light on September 11, 2024
Electricity is expensive. That is, unless you barely use it. When you live in a hot climate, you need air conditioning. You require heating when you live in a cold climate. When your climate is somewhere in between, you can probably get by with electric fans.
I’ve gotten by with electric fans on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, and in San Diego, California. Even when it was cold at night in San Diego, I didn’t need heat as long as I had a decent blanket. I’ve never lived anywhere else where I was comfortable without either heaters or air conditioners.
Electricity shouldn’t be the third-largest household expense, after house payments or rent, and automotive payments. Not with the current state of technology.
Solar Systems
Traditional solar systems, and the accompanying panels, are overpriced. I priced what it would cost me at one time, and I figured it would probably take me 10 years to pay for the initial installation alone. Paying the electric company, without the extra maintenance requirements, would cost me about the same.
Those solar systems are far less efficient than the new systems being worked on. They only convert visible light while the new systems convert visible light as well as invisible, ultraviolet light. Read these articles:
- These solar panels don’t need the sun to produce energy
- Transduction of UV-light energy into alternating-current electricity via a neglected internal photoelectric effect of metal foil-based nanogenerator
Google even has a patent on one apparatus for converting ultraviolet (uv) light into electricity.
Waste-to-Energy Plants
If there’s one thing every place in the populated world has too much of, it’s garbage. Whether it’s in landfills or exists as pollution, it can be converted to electricity. Not 100 percent of it, of course, because there’s always ashes. In the United States, it’s estimated that 85 percent of solid waste can be converted.
So, waste-to-energy plants can get rid of most of our garbage and provide electricity with it. Why aren’t there more of these plants in existence? Read this article:
Other Technologies
Going green shouldn’t cost us more. It should cost us less. After all, the technology is using renewable sources. I’m talking about sunlight, water, and wind. It seems to me that companies embracing these technologies are trying to make more money off of us while spending less on resources.
They have incredible profit margins.
Ideas
I don’t have any kind of engineering degree or experience, but I have ideas. For example, why not use batteries and electromagnets to create perpetual electricity generators? Any amount of electricity generated beyond what’s necessary to run them is a plus in my book.
Atmospheric pressure could also be used as a basis. After all, it changes all the time. Why not exploit those changes?
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