Becoming The Jetsons
BY RICHARD A. FLOREY
Marketing Director
EcoVantage Energy, inc.
www./ecovantageenergy.com
Building the hedges.
Having personal power is also essential to survival;
especially if that survival has to last for an extended
period of time. One of the things we as a people need to
embrace is thinking ahead and making the hard decisions
should life become pared down to its essentials. Having
energy to keep the lights on, your food fresh and staying
informed is one less thing to worry about in times of
hardship.
Change for the better…for good.
Having personal power will rank up there with the
airplane, gunpowder, microwave ovens and rocketry.
(Now, if we can only get them to build us those flying cars
we were promised back in the ‘60’s). Whether we accept
it or not, change is upon us. It seems that as every day
goes by, we get a little bit closer to becoming The Jetsons.
At least that’s the vision; to have a world where gizmos
and gadgets erase the nuisances and irritations of living
and surviving. Having a source of electricity right there on
the roof is about the wisest thing we can do for ourselves
and the environment and the future.
AUGUST 2016 PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
”Cheaper coal and cheaper gas will not derail the
transformation and decarbonization of the world’s power
systems. By 2040, zero-emission energy sources will make
up 60% of installed capacity. Wind and solar will account
for 64% of the 8.6TW of new power generating capacity
added worldwide over the next 25 years, and for almost
60% of the $11.4 trillion invested.”
New Energy Outlook 2016
Technology overcomes nuisance…Every. Single. Time.
Think of all the everyday objects that surround us
that do nothing more than help us overcome the little
irritations in life; the nuisances we otherwise would have
to put up with. There’s the automobile, because hooking
up a horse everyday was a nuisance. The airplane,
because the time it took to go from point A to point B
was extremely irritating. You can think of a multitude of
items like; shoes, eye glasses, the toothbrush, etc., the list
goes on and on. How about the nuisance of a recurring
monthly electricity bill coupled with periodic and
untimely outages? Behold, Solar PV with battery backup,
“personal power”, is here and it is the perfect answer
to many nuisances. It is the unstoppable transformation
of how we will power our lives today and in the future.
What about the big nuisance of surviving a catastrophe?
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