Why Use Oil When We Have The Sun?

Posted January 6, 2011 By Terry

All of our energy originates from the sun even the oil that we are so eagerly using up so why don’t we smply get our energy from the sun and bypass the intermediate levels of energy production?

It seems obvious that we should collect our energy from the sun but unfortunately ecxonomics gets in the way of common sense. At the current time it remains cheaper to suck oil out of the depths of the ground and transport it halfway around the globe than it is to simply collect the energy from the sun in solar collectors. It may be mad but that is the way things are right now.

It is only a matter of time until oil starts to get horrendously expensive and the old financial argument for using oil instead of solar energy will no longer apply. All the more reason then for us to work very hard on developing the best and most efficient solar collecting systems we can ready for the time when we start to run out of oil and the cost of oil and gas rises to levels we have never seen before.