CANTON, Ohio — Green Energy Ohio joins the nonprofit American Solar Energy Society and hundreds of solar-savvy installers and grassroots organizations throughout America to showcase more than 5,000 solar-powered homes, schools and businesses in Ohio and across North America for the annual National Solar Tour, the world s largest grassroots solar event.
Self-guided
This is the 10th year GEO has hosted the event in Ohio. Visit www.greenenergyohio.org/ost to build your own renewable energy and energy-efficiency tour based on your region, technology interests and time availability.
This year’s tour will focus on two themes: the business community (through Oct. 5) and homes and community spaces (Oct. 6-7).
Guided tour
Looking for a guided tour? Stark County will be hosting a free bus tour Oct. 6, that will include visits to seven locations in the county, including sites that showcase geothermal and energy efficient features, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal and wind turbines.
The tour will commence at 9:30 a.m. with scheduled return by 4:30 p.m. Transportation will be provided by SARTA, using one of their new hybrid buses. All tour members will meet at the Stark State College, Business & Entrepreneurial Studies Center, 6200 Frank Ave., NW, in N. Canton. Free parking is available. Lunch will be provided at The Wilderness Center, sponsored by Dovetail Solar and Wind.
Registration
This tour is free and open to the public. However, reservations are required. To reserve a seat, register at 2012starkcountytour.eventbrite.com, or call 330-453-7889. Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For those not interested in the guided tour, open house tours throughout the county will be available Oct. 6-7. To find a site near you and additional information on location, times, and technology, visit: www.greenenergyohio.org/ost or call toll free 866-473-3664.
Human beings always defy to live their lives under the conditions of nature-given. Since we acquire the brain that is so complex that we would be able to manipulate it in order to obtain the preferred way of life regardless of any nature-given conditions. We have conquered the most effective conditions to live in such a harsh climate in some particular regions on earth. Human beings can manage to inhabit anywhere around the globe. Other creatures have to adapt their DNA in order to transform their bodies to be suitable for such an environment. That can take millions of years. Why humans can settle down to live anywhere in just one generation? Because we have such a complex brain that can manipulate things around us. In order to inhabit in any region on this planet regardless the conditions of the habitats.
Humans build the structure to dwell in from variety of materials for their comfort and existence. These materials may have come from different sources such as the trees, elements underground, sand, stones and so on.
All these materials require energy to operate the tools or create heat to alter them to be the finished materials in the process. Ironically, We also need energy to keep our dwelling warm in winter and cool in summer as well as household appliances to be operated. They all need energy to work for our well being. An energy allows us to choose the lifestyle that we prefer. So it becomes an important part of our lives. We cannot live on comfortably at any given time without it.
There are two methods to obtain this energy in the form of electricity. One method is to burn fossil deposits such as crude oil, coal and convert heat into electricity. Our planet has the ample supply of fossil deposits at the present time but they will be depleted. So far, nobody can predict when that will happen. The other method is called “green energy” such as windmill, solar power and water dam along with some other green energy methods such as ocean waves, geothermal and so on. Green energy is clean and good for all lives to live naturally but all of them come with the conditions or restrictions when to yield electricity and when not being able to. Most of them can yield a minuscule amount of energy. All of them can supply the energy up to 1 percent of the total energy consumption we need. The rest is taken care by the first method. Which will carry on consuming limited natural resources. In addition, this method emits the heat and pollution into our atmosphere Which contributes to the cause of global warming.
Ironically, we have nothing to rely on going into the future. Moreover, we increase the rate of energy consumption by increasing the population. Not only that we bring in new lives but also multiply them on every new generation. The existing ones are prone to live longer due to advanced technology. That means we consume the limited natural resources progressively to obtain the energy for the increasing numbers of population. It is obvious that these resources will be depleted one day. The crux of this matter is, what the later generations would do when they have to face the depletion. Is there anything our generation ought to do to ensure the certainty for them when we are a part of chain reactions of bringing more population into this planet. But it appears that we live our lives day by day with no plans at all. Contrarily, we have done the right thing when it comes to food. There is something that we have got it right for decades. That is why we have food enough to support the increasing numbers of population. Our earlier generations used to hunt animals for their food. They actually drove some species to extinction. At some point of time, the later generations started to realize that if we keep killing animals for their meat from the wild to support the growing population. As the time goes by we will drive these animals to extinction. That means no more meat to eat later on. The right way is to farm them by selecting the ones from the wild that litter in large numbers and use the knowledge in genetics to turn them into the way we want. We do the same thing on vegetation as well so we can ensure that we have enough food to sustain the growing population. Unfortunately, when it comes to energy consumption we have not found the right way to handle the situation. Not until now.
Fortunately, there is a new idea emerges on horizon. The idea to manipulate the effect of interactions between water and air driven by the most reliable and powerful forces. Thus, the outcomes will be an ample supply of electricity for us to use at no running costs. It is a complete “green energy”.
This idea creates the apparatus that goes on pumping electricity by itself. This idea is the key to solve a lot of serious problems that we are now facing. Does it sound too good to be true?!?! Go to http://hydro-electrenergy.com to find out.