Household

I read an interesting fact today...

“In a given hour, more energy from sunlight strikes the earth than the entire planet consumes in a year"

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Basically means that if we covered the entire earth in solar panels that had the ability to absorb 100% of the energy, we could get all of the power that we need for the year in just 1 hour. ...

I just saw a good, short article about a GE Exec regarding going green. A quote I thought was pretty meaningful:

"As consumers ... we speak from our heart, we express concern about the environment but we respond from our wallet,"

I think the point is that although we all like the concept of going green, the world as a whole won't begin going green until it becomes cost effective to do so. We all like the concept of solar panels, solar hot water heaters, ...