Environmental Benefits Of Cheaper Power

When people turn on their lights in their home, they don't think too much about it.  They flip the switch and electricity flows to the lights, but that electricity must be manufactured using one of a number of processes.  The product is exactly the same, but how that product is created has large differences.  One way is through the burning of fossil fuels in order to turn turbines that generate the electricity.  These fossil fuels create pollution as a by product that ultimately hurts the environment, and there is nearly nobody on the planet that is going to argue that they want more pollution.  The reason that this is the primary method of production is that it is ultimately cheaper to consumers than the green methods that do not do environmental damage.  The question that many people cannot understand is why a source of production that uses a free power source would cost more.  The answer is found in lightning strikes.

Green energy production costs more than fossil fuel production because the components of the process are easily damaged in the field, and need replacement.  These damages also cause systems to go offline during the times when the wind or sun is available, ultimately reducing the amount of power that is produced for free.  By keeping damages to a minimum and systems online longer, we can reduce the costs that consumers must pay for their electricity to below the costs of fossil fuels, and this involves surge protection.  The main factor that causes damage to industrial components is lightning strikes, but the damage that occurs at the strike point itself is not the issue.  The power surge that follows the strike is coupled into data transfer lines and power cables, and ultimately travels easily from component to component in the chain.  A single lightning strike can produce surge related damages to equipment that is not even close to the strike point, and ultimately build the cost of the strike to a huge amount.  Through the use of integrated surge protection devices in a redundant manner, appropriately installed at critical junction points and along wires, the surges can be brought to a minimum and controlled more effectively.  This allows for damage to be reduced and costs that need to be paid by the consumer to be lower.  The newest generation of surge protection devices from Raycap also feature an "always on" capability, which ultimately means they do not need to be restored to functionality after they perform their duty.  This keeps systems online for longer periods of time, and generates more surplus electricity while the sun and wind are available.  It is this type of improvement to the systems that will ultimately achieve the goals of reducing costs below that of fossil fuel production, which will result in a cleaner and cheaper product.