Solar Battery Chargers
As seductive as the idea of having your home fully powered by renewable energy from the sun may be, the reality tends to be that solar technology is still developing, and getting enough panels to power your home fully might be financially demanding for many of us. Yet this does not mean that we can not start going green through solar power.
A good place to start in this direction would be by having all the small appliances in your home – things like alarm clocks, recorders and maybe even toys powered by the sun. The environmentally-hazardous alternative to using solar power for these appliances is to use alkaline batteries. Now these alkaline batteries contain harmful toxins – that shouldn’t be disposed off in landfills, but which is unfortunately where most of the alkaline batteries end.
The enormity of the problem becomes clear when you take into consideration the number of alkaline batteries used in a single city per month – and when you take into consideration how little quantities of the toxins (like lead) in the alkaline batteries are needed to cause scary consequences. So replacing the alkaline batteries with (solar) rechargeable ones can be a major first step towards saving the landfills of the havoc that the alkaline batteries would wreck if dumped there.
To make use of solar (rechargeable) batteries, you will need to establish a charging station at your home. Don’t be scared of the word ’station’ though. All that is required to establish such a solar charging ’station’ is a charger and a number of (solar) rechargeable batteries. This charger itself is something you can easily purchase for amounts as low as $20 – probably less than what you spend on alkaline batteries in a year quarter.
And Setting up the solar battery charging station should not be hard either – it is something you should be able to do yourself, following instruction on the charger’s manual.
The general idea is just ensure that you put the panels on which it is based is placed in an open place where it can get sunshine from the sun, yet away from young children and pets, who can easily make a mess of it. To make good use of it, you will need to replace the alkaline batteries in your appliances with rechargeable solar batteries. These cost slightly more than the alkaline batteries, but then they are rechargeable, translating to long term savings.
And in any case, it is a small price to pay for the opportunity to save your environment. Ideally, you should have at least a pair of batteries for appliance in your solar recharging program, so that you can keep the appliance working with one even while the other battery is charging.
This way, you get a way of conserving your environment drawing on clean energy from the sun, even as we await for the researchers to come up with cheaper solar technology, through which we will be able to power our homes wholly with energy from the sun -if the recent research breakthroughs made in the field are anything to go by.
