{"id":253,"date":"2012-02-13T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centuryrooftile.com\/solar-bay-area-roofing-blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2016-04-26T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T22:53:26","slug":"7-jaw-dropping-facts-about-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centuryrooftile.com\/solar-bay-area-roofing-blog\/7-jaw-dropping-facts-about-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Jaw-Dropping Facts about Solar Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;padding: 0 0 10px 10px\" class=\"interactive_right\"><div class='button_holder_right'><iframe allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' src='\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets\/tweet_button.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcenturyrooftile.com%2Fsolar-bay-area-roofing-blog%2F7-jaw-dropping-facts-about-solar-power%2F&amp;text=7 Jaw-Dropping Facts about Solar Power&amp;count=vertical&amp;lang=' style='width:65px; height:65px;' ><\/iframe><\/div><div class='button_holder_right'><iframe src='\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fcenturyrooftile.com%2Fsolar-bay-area-roofing-blog%2F7-jaw-dropping-facts-about-solar-power%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=65&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=21' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:65px; height:21px;' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><p>Whether you are a <strong>Bay Area business owner<\/strong> who wants to help protect the environment; or\u00a0you&#8217;re a cost-conscious <strong>Bay Area homeowner<\/strong> or <strong>landlord<\/strong> irked by usurious <a title=\"Pay No Utility Fees\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noutilitybill.com\/\">utility fees<\/a>, you\u00a0might be intrigued by the following list of cool facts about<a title=\"Bay Area Solar Power Installations\" href=\"http:\/\/centuryroofandsolar.com\/AboutUs.html\"> solar power<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h2>1. CA&#8217;s daytime energy needs met?!<\/h2>\n<p>If all of California\u2019s commercial and industrial facilities had solar power panels, we could\u00a0instantly meet all of the Golden State&#8217;s daytime energy needs\u2026 without a single other <strong>source\u00a0of energy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2. Silicon packs a punch!<\/h2>\n<p>We all know that <strong>solar power is \u201cmore efficient\u201d<\/strong> over the long-term than fossil fuel burning. But did you know that a single ton&#8217;s worth of silicon (processed into solar panels) can\u00a0generate as much electricity as <strong>half a million tons of coal?<\/strong> Pretty amazing.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Storied legacy.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>John Herschel,<\/strong> a British astronomer who traveled to Africa two centuries ago, cooked his\u00a0food using solar power. And none other than <strong>Albert Einstein<\/strong> himself won a <strong>noble peace prize<\/strong>\u00a0in 1921 for his <strong>solar power experiments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Albert Einstein\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/1921\/einstein.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Einstein\" width=\"100\" height=\"145\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NobelPrize.org<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>4. Best Solar on Earth?<\/h2>\n<p>Guess what country makes the best use out of solar power, objectively speaking? The US?\u00a0Some place in the Sahara or Caribbean? Not quite. The answer is\u2026 <strong>Germany!<\/strong> That\u2019s right:even though Germany is covered with forest &#8212; and the country gets savaged by debilitating\u00a0winters \u2013 it beats all other countries when it comes to extracting good energy through solar.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Massive long term savings?<\/h2>\n<p>If you replace your electric water heater with a solar model, you could slice your water bills\u00a0by perhaps <strong>50% annually<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s break down those numbers. Let\u2019s say $400 every year to heat\u00a0your water. By this logic, you could save $200 a year just on water heating. Over a decade,\u00a0that adds up to <strong>$2,000 of savings<\/strong>. Not insubstantial!<\/p>\n<h2>6. (Near) instant gratification.<\/h2>\n<p>When solar energy leaves the sun, it takes just eight minutes to travel from the surface of the\u00a0sun to hit your panel. Physicists would say it takes \u201ceight light minutes\u201d for the energy to get\u00a0to you. Curiously, it can take the same energy literally millions of years to travel from the\u00a0sun&#8217;s core to the sun&#8217;s surface. So it&#8217;s a <strong>million year journey<\/strong> from the center of the sun to the\u00a0surface of the sun\u2026 and then just an eight minute journey from the sun to your stove!<\/p>\n<h2>7. Easy peas-y.<\/h2>\n<p>Going solar is far, far, far, far easier (and far <strong>more cost-effective<\/strong>) than it used to be, even a\u00a0few years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with the team here at Century Roof and Solar<\/strong> to discover your <strong>solar solution<\/strong> \u2013 not just\u00a0to protect the environment but to generate real, tangible benefits for your pocketbook and your\u00a0home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call our Diamond Certified Company today at 510-780-9489<\/strong>, or learn more about our\u00a0premium Bay Area business at <a title=\"Bay Area Roofing and Solar Solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/centuryroofandsolar.com\">www.centuryroofandsolar.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='shareinpost'><ul class=\"socialwrap row\"><li class=\"iconOnly share\">share:<\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Share this post : 7 Jaw-Dropping Facts about Solar Power on Blogger'  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