Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Time for Solar Energy Is Now

Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, two founding fathers of the modern architecture movement, believed that the structure of society was in desperate need of a transformation and that this change could only be made through dramatic adjustment. According to Le Corbusier, “Architecture or Revolution” were the only two options. Le Corbusier believed that “revolution can be avoided” by using architecture as the fundamental tool of restructuring society. 

Almost a century later, we are in an era where development and energy consumption is expanding at a rate that estimates and predictions are foreseeing a global energy crisis in the very near future. According to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, estimates of oil reserves left in the world reach 1.3 trillion barrels, which is enough at present rates of consumption to last another 40 years. A world without any oil will certainly lead to a very large revolution. 

Great alternative energy solutions, such as San Diego solar energy systems, exist, however, governments and citizens are not looking to these solutions fast enough. Forty years is not a lot of time!

The way we build and engineer our homes and our cars can dramatically change and revolutionize the way we live and consume. There is no better time to re-think and restructure how we live and to use innovation and engineering to get us there. 

To learn more solar energy solutions for your home visit this solar hot water San Diego website.

2 comments:

  1. The other part of the transaction forgotten is that the electricity now comes for free. So that about the time that I have repaid my carbon debt, I have also paid for the installation with reduced electricity bills. I am now in the same position I was in before I made the installation. But!!! it is now cheaper to live because I don't have to pay the electricity company. I have become more efficient - more wealthy.

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  2. Maybe with more incentive from the government, solar energy could be more handy for people and would start replacing the energy we use now...

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