Extreme Greenness: Installing Solar Panels

If you really want to green and help out the environment, probably the next step would to make drastic changes to your home or business. One drastic change would be to install solar panels.

 

Solar panels make use of renewable energy from the sun and convert that energy to electricity. Solar panels can produce enough electricity to power the lights and electrical appliances in a home, as well as keep the home hot or cool.

Solarhome.org has a lot of information about the different types of solar panels available. Many have the misconception that solar panels are huge and take up a whole lot of space, but after looking are their site, some panels are quite small.

 

The U.S. Department of Energy has tons of information about solar energy, solar heating, and solar lighting. Now, if your still on the line about solar energy, or solar energy is a new concept for you, the DOE has a site with helpful decision making tools to help you understand how much energy your home uses and what that would look like after installing solar panels.

 

Besides helping your environment, there are incentives to greening your home. You can find information on the state, local, utility, and federal incentives available by clicking here.

 

Another device you can add to your home, if you’re daring enough, is to install a dry toilet. A dry toilet is similar to a port-a-potty where there is no water flushing. These toilets look like regular toilets but have a compartment underneath that captures the human feces and turns is into compost. These toilets are also referred as composting toilets. There are different styles available and there are different ways how the waste is composted.

 

If your looking for more information about these toilets you can surf over to Wikipedia. Cotuit Dry Toilets is one of the many makers/retailers of dry/composting toilets. This site also provides buyers with a “waterproof” instruction manual for users, which would come in handy.