subject: Solar Wind Power Devices: 2 Key Advantages [print this page] Solar wind power is becoming a more powerful market segment than either of these renewable options when considered alone. The drastic decrease in supply of fossil fuels along with the price increase, has caused a huge surge in interest in renewable devices of all types and a great improvement in the technology that underpins them.
Wind turbines alone can be a powerful asset in your quest to reduce your home energy costs. Also, solar collectors can be a huge asset for you as well. Traditionally, people have sought to optimize their situation and choose the one best of these 2 alternatives to collect power from their environment at home.
This however, is now considered old thinking. The trend is to consider both these devices coincidentally. If you can combine the strengths of solar wind power devices then you are really taking advantage of all that mother nature has to offer in terms of energy production for your house.
These are the 2 main reasons and advantages that solar wind power devices have over equipment that utilizes only one technology to the exclusion of the other
Both are intermittent sources of power - therefore, combining them in one device allows you to cultivate and harvest all of the power available at any one given point in time. If you were to get only a wind turbine or only a solar collector, then you could only harvest the energy when that particular natural source was available. In other words, if it is sunny outside, then you could use your solar collector or, if it is windy outside you could use your wind turbine. It is often the case though, that both sources of power are available at the same moment.
It is cheaper to buy them together rather than separately - if you were to buy a home wind turbine or a solar collector individually you not only would have to buy the associated hardware specific to that device, but also you have to have two separate installations. The installation cost alone can be very high relative to the overall cost of the equipment itself.
In conclusion, the future is in collecting all the power we can from our immediate environment. Solar wind power devices combine these two technologies in one product and allow you to reap the benefit of both at the same time. Often, dealers and installers who work in the renewable energy area will not be adept at installing both of these technologies. So, you'll have to go to a solar installer and then go the wind turbine installer-you can do everything you need with one individual, if you go the route of considering both wind and solar simultaneously.
