go 13 of the sustainable development
goals climate action explaining how
solar panels work and how they
contribute to reducing climate change
electricity has become a necessity for
human life we use it to power everything
from our homes to our streetlights to
our jobs although we need it in order to
generate electricity we end up putting a
lot of harmful chemicals into the air
through burning fossil fuels natural
gases and coals are emitting toxic
levels of carbon into our atmosphere
that contribute to global warming
climate change is a global issue that
negatively affects us all it can lead to
stronger natural disasters such as
droughts and hurricanes make the air we
breathe deadly and caused the economy to
lose millions of dollars not only are
they dangerous
but fossil fuels are a limited resource
once they're gone
there's no way of getting them back and
will be left in the dark the good news
is there's a safer form of energy out
there and that's been supplying us power
for as long as we can remember to put it
simply this energy comes from the Sun
specifically solar panels harness energy
from the Sun and converts it into
electricity in order to power homes and
businesses they do this by exciting
electrons and silicon cells using the
photons of light from the Sun most of
the time these panels are placed on the
roof in order to get as much exposure to
the Sun as possible solar panels
contribute to reducing climate change by
reducing air pollution caused by utility
companies using solar power creates be
clothe generating capacity which saves
utilities from using polluting
supplemental systems during times when
demands for energy are high the more
solar electric power systems in a
general area the less capacity a utility
needs to build this ultimately saves
money creates jobs and gives the area
clean green source of energy solar
energy is a resource that's been fueling
the planet for centuries now we can use
it to power our home
and help keep the plan of clean and safe
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