The sun is a persistent and relentless source of energy that
must be harnessed via the photovoltaic effect. We do not have
to seek, harvest, mine, frack, grow, distribute, transmit, pipe,
purchase, ship, nor contain the photons that are readily and
abundantly available for use.
The Santee Riverkeeper challenges 1) legislatures to enact law
that is solar friendly and to nullify laws that are not, 2)
non-governmental organizations to ardently advocate for solar
energy, 3) organizations to pursue and adopt solar as an energy
source, 4) universities and colleges to teach students about solar
energy with a multi-disciplinary approach, 5) private citizens to
educate themselves about solar energy, 6) power companies to
markedly augment their solar budget line item, 7) scientists to
invent new technologies to improve the efficiency of the
photovoltaic effect and/or to discover a new method of photon to
electricity conversion, 8) financial institutions to provide
low-interest loans for solar energy implementations, 9) states,
counties, and municipalities to exempt solar panels from property
tax only when each specific solar energy implementation attains a
rolling average breakeven point and taking into account the
specific median cloud coverage for that geographical location for
the previous twelve months, 10) electricity meter manufacturers to
redesign meters in order to accommodate solar energy
implementations as an electricity supplier, 11) insurance companies
to build panel replacement risk models based on a combination of
market value plus environmental benefit factors and taking into
account the specific median cloud coverage for that geographical
location for the previous twelve months, 12) engineers to design a
low cost sun tracking mechanism to optimize the angle of incidence
to 90° during photon impact with the photovoltaic substrate, 13)
politicians to never make solar energy a negative political issue,
and 14) everyone to plan for solar energy and finally, all of these
actions and others, I believe will provide us with a renewable,
environmentally friendly, efficient and clean source of
electricity.
Santee Riverkeeper