Why Is Renewable Energy Better is because it’s infinite and clean. The fact that humanity has developed the majority of it’s technology based on the use of fossil fuels is intriguing.
Thomas Edison absolutely loved solar and truly believed it was the direction to go, this is one of his many famous quotes: “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around the house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible resources of energy – sun, wind, and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy, what a source of power! I hope we don’t wait until we run out of coal and oil to do that.”
Considering Eddison was the inventor of modern electricity as we know it today it makes me wonder why nobody listened to the genius. Unfortunately he could not figure out how to make DC (direct current) cost feasible because it would have to be done on a home by home basis. So it makes sense that power stations at that time could only be done with Tesla’s AC (Alternating current) because homes could get power from a station and not have to spend any money in advance.
We knew then and we know now the biggest issue isn’t harnessing the sun’s energy, it’s storing it for on-demand use that has always been the challenge. Grid-Tied solves that issue and insures that any under-performing system will not leave you without power.