Summary: Green energy methods describe how individuals can apply green energy in their homes or businesses. Discover how a home can be greener through the use of solar panels with information from the executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Practice in this free video on green energy.
G. Dodd Galbreath is the founding executive director of Lipscomb University’s Institute for Sustainable Practice and Tennessee’s first academic program to offer an M.B.A., graduate...read more
"Green energy methods are basically the how-tos of green energy. For example, as a consumer, many of us are wondering how can I apply green energy in my home or in my business. So green energy methods include the entire spectrum of opportunities that are available to use green energy in those applications. For example, in a residential circumstance, green energy is currently available in the form of solar panels that can installed on a home to create electricity to reduce the demand of electricity that is purchased by a homeowner from a local utility. This could also include technology that uses the sun to heat fluids in pipes that then go into a water heater which in turn that heat transfer allows for the water inside the water heater to be heated through solar energy or solar technology instead of using natural gas or electricity to heat the water for a home which can enormously reduce the cost of heating hot water for a home. In the case of a business it might also involve installing solar panels on the roof to offset the cost of computers and other electronics that are used in a business or even industrial manufacturing materials for example using energy from a geothermal systems to heat and cool large commercial structures is a way to save 60 to 70%. So when you think in terms of the methods associated with green energy, think in terms of entrepreneur creative and your own imagination in terms of how this technology can solve human needs and you will become a contributor to our world energy challenge and to the global warming challenge that we face in the years to come."
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