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It brightens our faces and grows our food; the sun is our life blood and gives us nearly everything we need to live on. Using its potential, however, has escaped the earths people, or at least until lately. Commanding our sun’s full potentiality may be a long way into the future, but until engineering shows us the true possibilities of solar power we can use what we have as a matter of necessity, economic need and personal responsibility.

Perhaps you are fairly happy with the status quo of today. Perhaps 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 What If I don’t care about the current situation? Perhaps everything in the world is satisfactory as far as you are concerned. The last thing that you care about are plants, fresh air and clean water. Heck, the drinking water turns up every time you turn on a tap, the heating comes on when it’s cool, the light switch brings you a bright light. What’s there to be concerned about? Consider that this is just the problem. If you don’t care for the environment, the tap may not bring you pure drinking water, the heater may not go on and the suv certainly won’t start. If the planet is kept immaculate and left to do what it was supposed to do, everything would continue to work just 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 do its job is that it can greatly save you money in the long run. Once solar modules are procured and installed, they cost very little, if anything to operate and maintain. 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!

Profitable - In most instances, 85% of the southern hemisphere can produce 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 energy meter running backwards. The extra power you need for that cloudy day is stored in ever more efficient batteries. Most current users of the technology claim that the use of solar systems only takes a little thought in terms of power management.

Take Yourself Right Off the power 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 feel like being a part of the social collective that is interconnectivity. Going sun powered takes you away from this one aspect of community and puts you closer to self reliance.

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 really long way to go. This is not to indicate, however, that solar energy is not currently versatile in form and function. Solar panels can currently be formed into thin sheets for car top electric powered cars. They can cover suburban rooftops and not be noticed, unlike those 1970s units. Costs are also coming down, almost as fast as the TVs of today.

It’s Everyone’s Personal responsibility - Looking Past the cost benefits and environmental benefits that solar electricity brings you should consider using it because you are part of a larger 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 far 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 fulfil the goal of holding onto all the creature comforts of home working satisfactorily is by using other sources of power generation like solar, and not generating nasty things that get in the way of the environment doing its job. Most present-day sources of power include carbon based fuels such as natural gas which are derived from dead plants. Environmentally responsible power, heat and daily transport come from living or energized things like water and O2 molecules. The Sun can be turned directly into electricity and used to power your truck, provide heat for your home and provide your light. But to make the process work, you need to be able to have a direct shot at the sun, which means caring for the environment and not getting in its way.