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A description of life in Ghana and how people adapt to a situation during the load shedding and powercuts due to the failure of the Akosombo Dam, the largest powers source, to produce power. This has been going on from November 2006 until today. We see no end to this.

I was in Ghana and one of things I experienced were the power cuts. Technical reasons were given from above and we had to grin and bear it.

We had 12 hours off during the day and 12 hours off during the night on alternate days sometimes every two days. Now I hear its going to 24 hours off at a time every two days. The common phrase now is "do you have lights?".

Most people have an electricity schedule stuck up somewhere in their house or office but it is not always accurate. The official term for this is "Load Shedding" but when the lights go out unexpectedly on your day on it is called "Lights Off". We call each other and ask is it load shedding or lights out… Now we all rush to do ironing, cooking, emailing and anything that uses electricity before the load shedding and its funny to see people rushing home cos lights will come on at 6pm.

My question is… with all the sunshine why isn't solar made more available to the country? Why hasn't someone found a way to make [tag-tec]solar panels[/tag-tec] cheaper for all to be able to afford them and why hasn't the government had the foresight to see that the levels of the dam were dropping over the past years, so something should be done fast. It is human nature at its worst, wait until the crisis before reacting rather than preventing the crisis to happen in the first place

To Solar or not to solar… that is the question

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Since the creation of the universe, the energy of the sun has been the central life support for all living creatures on our planet. As civilization progresses, man's insatiable search for purpose have revealed an ever increasing knowledge on how the sun's energy could be used to our benefit.

It is common knowledge that the sun is the source of light. As such throughout the last century, especially at the turn of the century, the sun became the primary source of interior lighting for buildings during the day. It was only when the cost, convenience and performance of the electric lamps improved that the sun was replaced as our primary source of lighting building interiors.

As our technology makes further headway, we found a more interesting way of harnessing the energy of the sun by the use of solar panels. The use of solar energy becomes a new source of generating electricity for powering homes and for solar lighting. In recent years solar lighting has taken many different forms. It is used for almost everything from solar garden lighting to park lights.

Advancements in photovoltaic technology have made solar lighting a big business today. Solar lighting is a common practice to light exteriors at night as solar lighting is the perfect alternative to installing traditional grid-tied lighting system.

Solar sign lights has been specially designed to illuminate business signs, community entrance gates, churches or other commercial sign applications for the convenience of passersby to locate destinations while driving at night.

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Since the creation of the universe, the energy of the sun has been the central life support for all living creatures on our planet. As civilization progresses, man's insatiable search for purpose have revealed an ever increasing knowledge on how the sun's energy could be used to our benefit.

It is common knowledge that the sun is the source of light. As such throughout the last century, especially at the turn of the century, the sun became the primary source of interior lighting for buildings during the day. It was only when the cost, convenience and performance of the electric lamps improved that the sun was replaced as our primary source of lighting building interiors.

As our technology makes further headway, we found a more interesting way of harnessing the energy of the sun by the use of solar panels. The use of solar energy becomes a new source of generating electricity for powering homes and for solar lighting. In recent years solar lighting has taken many different forms. It is used for almost everything from solar garden lighting to park lights.

Advancements in photovoltaic technology have made solar lighting a big business today. Solar lighting is a common practice to light exteriors at night as solar lighting is the perfect alternative to installing traditional grid-tied lighting system.

Solar sign lights has been specially designed to illuminate business signs, community entrance gates, churches or other commercial sign applications for the convenience of passersby to locate destinations while driving at night.

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My articles on oil, energy, politics, war and economics are all based on some common factors. These factors all point to the grip that big oil has on not just the USA, but the world economy. These Unlucky 13 Very Serious Energy Questions for the USA ask a lot.

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