Many of you I'm sure have already the idea of eco products and services such as billing statements and bank statements obtainable paperless, eco friendly cars, solar panels, and naturally derived energy from our sun and earth. I express thanks to all of you that take advantage of these healthier and more efficient standards. For a lot of you it is hard to change your accustomed ways of living, for some it is welcoming. This article is being written to give you some insight of where the world is heading with renewable resources being obtainable to everyone. Below are three of the most popular routes chosen to obtain free energy that anyone can use to start an eco friendly lifestyle of their own.

Imagine your electric bill coming in the mail and saying you owe nothing. That would be pretty cool right? Well a lot of people are experiencing this phenomenon all over the world as more and more people are turning to alternative energy resources. For instance if you positioned solar panels on your home you can perhaps eliminate your electric bill, even receive credits from your utility company depending on your setup. Solar panels work by collecting energy from the sun on PV panels and is then converted into electricity. There is a newer generation of solar panels that is also made to heat water harnessing the suns energy. You may pay close to your electric bill in financing this project for a couple years but now your ahead of the game and by then others will be asking where you got them and how much they cost. several businesses, governments, military, and homeowners are taking further advantage of this fairly new means of free and eco friendly alternative to fossil fuel.

Another and even newer innovative technology used to generate electricity is referred to as geothermal energy. Now this is a true eco friendly system. The process is moderately simple to explain. Just above the earth’s magma center there is an area that collects and retains water from rainfall, rivers, etc. This water is superheated by the magma underneath it. Wells are drilled five to ten thousand feet into the earth. Under its own pressure the water is piped up to the surface where the superheated water flows to a separator where the high pressure steam is rapidly vaporized and travels to a steam turbine. The steam power spins the turbine linked to a shaft that is connected directly to an electric generator. next the electricity goes to a transformer before it transfers through power lines and finally to your home. This is the process of a larger scale geothermal plant, homeowner models are slightly simpler and provide heat, cooling, and hot water at about a 70% decrease in your bills. They use a heat pump and pipes in the ground filled with an eco friendly anti freeze. In the winter the heat from the ground is brought up to heat the house. In the summer, the heat is pumped into the ground and cool air is brought back up. This works because at about twenty meters below the earth ground temperatures remain nearly the same all year as surface temps vary.

The final electric powerhouse to mention, mostly used in larger scale but has been adopted over the years for home use as smaller more practical models are made available. This would be the wind turbine. A wind turbine, most commonly installed on the top of a post collects kinetic energy from wind speeds generally above 7 mph. The blades turn a shaft which turns an electric generator. These home turbines start at around $3,000 for a small basic 1000 watt system to thousands depending on how much power you would require. Modern systems also require no batteries as older models did, now they just feed directly into your home current.

In conclusion I hope that these examples have opened your mind a little more of where our future is heading and the role eco friendly power will play on a daily basis for all our energy needs. All of these are indeed investments that will pay for themselves in a couple years. So why is it that every homeowner is not taking advantage of these energy alternatives? I believe it is simply because not enough people are informed enough to make a change, nor realize how rewarding it can be to the environment and your bills. Also changing the ways you think and achieve every day tasks. We can envision what it would be like to stop doing something your accustomed to doing your whole life and do something completely different. It’s a big step but we have got to start setting examples and taking advantage of these breakthrough ways to harness free energy. We all love free things, and mother nature just happens to be more than generous to give them to us.