A no-brainer
Two offices of the Philippine National Police will be fitted with solar panels by the Department of Energy, in an effort to reduce its electricity bills, an offer welcomed by the PNP. The PNP spends around 12 million pesos per month on electricity. With the use of the solar panels, the PNP may save about four hundred thousand pesos a month or five million pesos a year. Other regional offices will also be outfitted with solar panels for their electrical needs.
Public schools who even today do not have electricity will also be provided with solar panels. It is hard to imagine that in this day and age, there are still places in the country that are not electrified. Providing solar panels which will supply adequate power for lights, fans, even teaching equipment such as computers and the internet will certainly go a long way in providing a much better quality education for students still living in the "dark ages."
Solar panels provide electricity by which deep cycle batteries can be charged. These in turn are converted t hrough an inverter into AC, which run practically everything in the home. The sun does shine a lot in this country, so tapping its potential is a no- brainer. Some already use solar panels to provide warm water. This should be taken a step further and utilize solar energy to run refrigerators, lights, fans, irons, washing and drying machines and even computers during the day. The technology is already available to do just these, and may even be upgraded to provide power during the night. Imagine being off the grid. While the cost for such a system may still be substantial for the everyday person, the savings may be significant in the long run as it pays for itself.
It really is high time that everyone take a closer l ook at solar power t o provide energy needs. Renewable energy such as this, along with wind, rain, waves, t i des and geothermal heat must be tapped and made readily available to all. The world is still dependent on fossil fuel for its energy needs, but while it is believed that the amount of oil available i s still substantial, it is not being replaced. Oil will eventually run out. So the use of renewable energy is not only practical, but necessary. Other countries have already been using these at a much larger scale. Why should the country always have to play catch- up in everything?
“The world is still dependent on fossil fuel for its energy needs, but while it is believed that the amount of oil available is still substantial, it is not being replaced. Oil will eventually run out. So the use of renewable energy is not only practical, but necessary. Other countries have already been using these at a much larger scale. Why should the country always have to play catch-up in everything?”