"India Goes Solar"

India currently has a huge defficit in electricity; while mayor cities have normal electrical services, most of its villages have no electricity or potable water. The solution to the electricity problem has been given by a private company who sells solar panels at only $150 us dllrs.
Because India has a sunny clime all the year, this seems like the perfect solution; villagers are specially grateful with this service, because, although they had to pay the banc who financed the solar lamps, once they are through with the debts, they will have free light virtually forever.
I think it would be interesting to bring this company to Sonora, or ither create a similar one, since we also have sunlight the whole year an is very cheap.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/02/28/kapur.inda.solar.lights.cnn

Solar Energy

It is important for us to look for different ways in which we can obtain electricity, besides oil; because how we all know, oil is not meant to last forever and it is coming to an end. One way in which we can obtain electricity is from solar panels. Solar panels are made up of photovoltaic cells which rely on the suns light and heat to produce energy.

There are many advantages to the use of solar panels or solar cells, they can be put anywhere, on top of houses and on different types of buildings. In fact there are several big stores that are currently using solar panels to produce their electricity, like wal-mart and Sam’s Club. I think that they are putting a great example by starting to use this kind of machinery to produce energy. Beside creating energy, it can also be used to create heat in houses, plus it is very economical and if the energy produced is more than the one used it can be sold back.

I think solar panels would be a great idea to have here in Hermosillo and in all Mexico, because we get a lot of sun. They could be anywhere in the world, because even if there isn’t much light the solar panels have a thermal storage where the elements are preserved so they can be used also at night time.

Solar panels more than other energy sources are eco-friendly, because it just used the suns light to produce all kinds of energy and it also produced a huge amount of it.