Clean Energy Surge Protection

The space that is considered "alternative energy" is populated with companies who generate power for public consumption using methods which do not burn fossil fuels in order to achieve their goal.  The production of electricity needs the turning of turbines in order to generate the electrical charge which is then harnessed, stored and ultimately sold to the public through a connection to an electrical grid.  The turbines themselves are turned in a variety of methods, traditionally being that some fuel source is burned in order to produce heat and gas which causes them to turn.  The fuel sources that have traditionally been used are fossil fuels like coal, wood and oil due to their plentiful nature, however these sources of fuel are not without limit.  Every year mass consumption of power makes them more limited, and new and more extreme methods of mining them are necessary to satisfy demand.  In addition to this issue, burning of fossil fuels creates pollution and has a negative effect on the climate, ultimately making the earth and atmosphere dirtier and more difficult to deal with.  Solutions as to methods of generating power that are cleaner and cheaper lead to the discovery of clean energy production methods, which ultimately solve these issues and remain completely sustainable because they are not destroyed in the process.

Clean energy production is cleaner and without the negative atmospheric effects that fossil fuel production methods have.  The two drawbacks to clean energy production methods is that they only work when the fuel source is present, as in when the wind is blowing, and they typically are more expensive due to ongoing damage to the high tech control equipment used in the process.  This damage generally comes in the form of weather related damage, like lightning strikes to wind turbine blades.  The large expenses are usually not found in blade replacement, but the repair of equipment attached to the wind tower via electrical lines.  These computers are susceptible to power overloads, and sustain damage to circuitry if overloaded.  A lightning strike produces a power surge that does exactly that, causing not only damage to the components but shut down of the production systems during peak hours.  In order to bring production prices down, the damage must be minimized and systems kept online longer.

This task is accomplished through the installation of advanced surge protection devices for clean energy facilities, installed at critical points in the power chain.  Through the prevention of the surge from reaching the equipment used in the process, the expected repair and replacement costs drop and the systems stay online longer using free fuel to produce excess power.  As surge protection systems technologically advance further, we can expect prices to be driven down past the point of fossil fuel production, essentially eliminating it's necessity and replacing it.