Man has always needed heat for survival. Sungate Energy Solutions is helping many people turn their homes and businesses ecofriendly and financially sound by using the sun as their main source of power.

Historians believe that as early as the Seventh Century B.C. man began to capture the sun’s heat with glass and mirrors to light fires. By the Third Century B.C. religious ceremonies spurred the discovery that torches of fire could be started by using mirrors to capture enough light to catch the straw on fire. Even today the concept of capturing light from the sun and increasing its energy through glass and mirrors is still used as a basis for solar energy.

In the Second Century B.C. man began using fire from the sun’s energy for war. The Greek Scientist, Archimedes, used the reflection from bronze shields to focus sunlight in order set fire to the invading ships from the Roman Empire. The ships were made of wood and later experiments proved it to be entirely probable.

Sungate Energy Solutions is working for a peaceful world using the sun’s energy rather than modern battles over fossil fuels. Solar power is free to everyone with the help of the installation of photovoltaic panels used to capture the sun’s light. To be a part of the future of solar energy, please visit Sungate Energy Solutions.

Carbon emissions into the atmosphere have a long way to go before they disappear, but in the United States, these emissions are beginning to see a reduction. In 2008 alone, fossil fuel pollution fell by almost six percent. While Sungate Energy Solutions can point out a weaker economy as one reason and therefore, less demand for energy, another sound reason is the use of solar energy and wind power as alternatives producing power with fewer emissions.

Sungate Energy Solutions is looking forward to more solar plants. In fact, more solar projects are clearing regulations with the result of more solar facilities being built. In California, the Blythe project in Riverside County will be the largest solar facility in the world. The project will result in 250 megawatts to be developed to power more than 300,000 homes.

The project has one more challenge. It’s true that the California Energy Commission has approved this project, but the Federal Bureau of Land Management needs to approve it as well. It’s expected to happen.

This is one example of the push to allow homeowners and businesses to switch to renewable energy. There are numerous advantages both environmentally as well as economically to the change from fossil fuels to a more consistent source of clean and renewable power.  For more information as to how you can step into the realm of solar energy for use in your home, visit Sungate Energy Solutions.

Sungate Energy Solutions is always interested in the work being done regarding alternative energy. In the world’s quest to find another type of fuel, many believed the answer was in agricultural grown fuels. Corn and sugar became the poster children of a friendly alternative to fossil fuels.

The United Nations commissioned a study and had mixed verdicts regarding the outcome as to which biofuel was the best choice over fossil fuels. The report complemented some crop based fuel and gave negative reviews to others. The United Nations’ gave sugar cane a more positive review. The crops of sugar cane grown for fuel and used in Brazil were given the best scores for biofuel. Corn grown and used in the United States, however, was shown to have too much greenhouse emissions and the level of emissions was based on how the corn was planted and processed. The effects on consumers and tax payers were also seen as a negative. The fertilizer used to grow biofuels emits the greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide which is counter- productive to the goals of biofuel as an alternative to fossil fuels.

Another biofuel that was studied is biodiesel palm oil which is grown on destroyed tropical forests. Not only did the forests disappear but the results were that the crops grown to make palm oil released CO2 in the growing process which was even worse than the CO2 released into the atmosphere from fossil fuels.

Sungate Energy Solutions has been working with solar energy as a renewable form of power with no carbon footprints left behind. It even allows the tax payers to benefit by making a switch as well as allowing consumers the chance to take advantage of other incentives to save money as well. Eventually, the original investment for individual home owners is paid back with the residual effect of actually making money on the use of the sun’s energy to allow them to get off the grid. Happily, the conclusion to the switch to solar energy is that a healthier world is the results of the use of solar power.

For additional information regarding solar power installation, please visit Sungate Energy Solutions.

While huge corporations have invested in the latest clean energy technology called the Bloom Box or the Bloom Energy Saver, it will be at least ten years before it will be cost effective for the average home in America.

Sungate Energy Solutions has read that the smallest size that the Bloom Box currently has available is a 100 kilowatt unit. The cost of this unit is between $700.000 and $800.000 and is only practical for extremely large businesses.

Regarding energy costs from current solar systems in comparison to the Bloom Box, the energy costs are equal. Both are about ten cents per kilowatt hour.

Regarding maintenance, solar panels require no maintenance other than an occasional dusting. The Bloom Box, however, has many parts and mechanical replacement needs.

Another concern is the carbon footprint of solar energy versus the Bloom Box which uses natural gas. There are carbon emissions from the Bloom Box although the CO2 is reduced by about half as much as from today’s power plants. Solar panels’ carbon emissions can be eliminated after a short period of time.

Sungate Energy Solutions wants to help eliminate carbon emissions. Their knowledgeable staff is ready to help answer all of your questions regarding solar installation.

Alaska has new applications regarding the development of solar energy technology that are currently being developed and used. The Alaskan people are interested in using various methods to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels and the carbon footprints that they leave behind. Alaskans are concerned about their health, wild life, crab and fishing industries as well as their pristine beauty of the land which they want to maintain.

Sungate Energy Solutions is enthused about the structures that use the solar panel, solar hot water heaters, passive solar energy systems such as architectural design and other methods of using the sun for power. To capture the sunlight for power, photovoltaic cells are used that make up the modules for solar panels.

Passive solar applications used in Alaska are not being used in home and industrial site designs to make the most of sunlight. Windows are placed where the optimum amount of sunlight can provide both heat and light. Solar energy is captured in units for solar lighting.

It may be cold in Alaska, but there is still plenty of sunshine for the solar industry to prosper as much in Alaska as it does in California. Sungate Energy Solutions has more information regarding solar energy and the products and services available.

Sungate Energy Solutions would like to explain photochemical smog. This type of smog has been present in California for years. Unfortunately, many areas of California have all of the conditions necessary for this type of pollutant to thrive. These conditions come from pollutants put out by automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles and any other vehicles that operate on gasoline or diesel fuels that travel our highways constantly. The second important contributing factor is sunlight and California has a lot of that.

The results of pollutants such as nitrogen, hydrocarbons and other oxides plus sunlight form ozone. Ozone is considered corrosive and is extremely harmful to humans and all other living things. Sungate Energy Solutions has worked for alternatives to oil and coal for over three decades. Knowing that so many of the vehicles on our highways plus lots of sun equals smog. Adding the pollutants of fossil fuels from heating and cooling our homes and businesses to the ozone produced by vehicles will only keep us on the path to more air pollution.

There are alternatives to fossil fuels such as solar energy.  If you’re interested in learning more about California Air Quality, the California Air Resource Board exists to promote clean air and protect public health with the reduction of air pollutants. Sungate Energy Solutions would like to suggest that California Air Resource Board’s website which is available to you through the EPA. For more information regarding renewable energy alternatives available to you, please visit Sungate Energy Solutions.

The BP Gulf Oil Spill and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Alaska are huge events and the destruction they caused makes many of us upset. Those stories made front page news, but what has happened more than half way around the world as a result? Have we learned anything? There are daily oil spills in Nigeria and those stories are rarely in front of our eyes as they should be. There is no place in the world that has experience as much destruction as Nigeria.

Sungate Energy Solutions is concerned about all people on this planet. It is hard to live with, if you’re a Nigerian citizen, knowing that a burst oil pipe owned by Royal Dutch Shell took two months to be shut down. This is one of many similar tragedies that occur often. This one began in Nigeria’s mangroves and ended with a body of water once alive with shrimp and crab now brown with thick oil and dead. Wild life, fish, seafood, plants, birds and people are dying from travesties like this one. Nigeria has the shortest human lifespan of all countries on earth.

If the world cared, environmentalists believe that with huge restoration, the Niger Delta could be brought back to life. Some believe that aging pipes are the reason for this debacle and some believe that it’s caused by terrorists or thieves. Things must change no matter what the reason.

Sungate Energy Solutions has a reasonable answer to this dramatic challenge. The answer is for renewable energy to become the only necessary power source reducing these environmental and human catastrophes. It really isn’t about money because only a very few benefit from the riches that oil produces. It’s about the desire of the majority of the people on this planet to learn about choices. There are other ways to live without destroying the earth and the people who live here. Our selections for energy can come from solar energy, geothermal energy to wind power.

Sungate Energy Solutions has practical information and stories of success regarding how renewable energy can save the planet and help people live a financially sound life as well.

Sungate Energy Solutions and the California Cash for Appliance Program is something all California citizens should know something about, especially if they’re considering buying new energy savings appliances in the near future. One of Sungate’s many objectives is saving people from wasted energy costs. Of course, solar energy is a topic that Sungate can help you gain information about as you move towards renewable energy and away from the use of fossil fuel use. However, there are appliances that are in homes all over the country that run inefficiently costing families far more money to run than Energy Star appliances.

The California Energy Commission has been allocated $35.2 million dollars to participate in a cash for appliance program called the State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program (SEEARP). SEEARP will administer rebates to California consumers so that they can get rid of certain old appliances in return for purchasing an Energy Star labeled appliance that has been deemed energy efficient. The three categories of appliances are washing machines, refrigerators and window air conditioners. These rebates are in addition to existing rebates.

Contact the California Energy Commission for more information on the SEEARP project. Contact Sungate Energy Solutions for more information on renewable and clean products and systems for your home.

Sungate Energy Solutions is continually looking for the means that lead to solar energy advances. Scientists are constantly trying to improve ways to make solar energy more efficient regarding solar cells. These cells are vital to all systems powered by the sun and their function is to capture sunlight and turn it into power. Experiments regarding how to best have solar cells capture energy has taken researchers on many journeys.

One of the latest scientific discoveries is the use of pokeberries to coat fiber based solar cells. Solar cells need absorbent materials to capture the sunlight and turn it into power. Recent research has found that the reddish purple dye from pokeberries is a good coating to use cells as its light absorbent. These plants can be grown in any climate so this product can be cultivated worldwide.

Pokeberries have been used as dye for many years. They have been used as a basis for ink since the civil war and now scientists have developed means to use the dye as part of the solar cells needed to trap sunlight for energy. A process has been discovered to coat plastic sheets with this absorbent dye which creates a viable and flexible surface for light to be captured. Since pokeberries can be grown locally including in developing countries throughout the world, these plants will help solar energy to be produced more efficiently and less expensively. When more renewable energy is used like solar power, the better it is for all of us regarding the reduction of fossil fuel dependency.

Sungate Energy Solutions has solar products that are currently available  and one of our knowledgeable staff members will be available to answer any questions that you may have regarding your solar energy needs.

Sungate Energy Solutions has been doing its homework for more than three decades regarding how renewable energy like solar power can curb the climatic changes for people on earth. We know that even if the doubters of fossil fuel effects on global warming can’t agree with studies and research about the effects of CO2 on conditions in our atmosphere, they should agree that politically and economically it’s a bad idea to continue to depend on fossil fuels. We know that our dependency rules our stand on who our international friends are and we know that America’s trade is off balance due to depending on fossil fuels. We also know that we have alternatives that create no side effects that you would be afraid to breathe in with your garage door closed. This serious energy solution is called solar thermal power or CST. It can be concentrated to power turbines or engines and it can also be successfully stored.

Sungate Energy Solutions has the experience to install solar energy equipment to heat and cool homes and solar hot water systems that can generate people’s needs on demand.

The staff of Sungate Energy Solutions would like to answer your questions and introduce you to some interesting facts about renewable energy that will save you money and provide you with dependable, clean power. Please contact us  and allow us to meet with you. This could be the most valuable meeting that you ever had.