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 = **Welcome to the homepage of**     SLARAMA©   The Sun makes the world go round. =

__ Board of Trustees __
Danielle Williams- President Gabrielle Hnatin- Vice President Brian Loane- Treasurer Nick Clairmont- Secretary

What does our company offer you? Our company provides a new and improved source of energy called solar energy that can help replenish our world. This new source of energy is clean, silent, and even free once installed. Solar energy can be converted into other types of energy such a s heat and electricity. Instead of fossil fuels, which harm our environment and create air pollution and global warming, you can switch now to solar power in order to help make our planet live longer and happier. The sun is the ultimate source of energy, so why settle for other energy resources when solar is clearly the best? Solar energy is easy to use. To capture this energy you can put together solar cells. If you put a lot of solar cells together they become a solar panel. The solar panels can convert solar energy into other types of energy. If you convert the solar energy into thermal energy, it can be used for things like heating homes. If you don’t like solar cells of panels there are other things to use instead of them. One would be a solar dish. Another would be a solar power plant.

Our mission. Our mission is to help our earth one step at a time so that we as humans can live here forever. To do this, Solarama is providing solar energy to Upper Merion Area as an alternate energy source. We hope that solar energy will act as a chain reaction to many other communities and make this world a cleaner and more efficient place to live. You can truly trust Solarama, Inc. and solar energy because the sun will shine and provide us with the energy we need until the Earth stops spinning! We are perfect for Upper Merion because we are trustworthy, clean, not too visually disturbing, and will blend in with the lovely community very well.

About Solar energy Did you know that an astronomer used a thermal collector box to cook food in 1830? You can use solar energy for a lot of reasons, like heating water for houses, buildings, and swimming pools. A heating system needs a collector to collect the radiation. Fans and pumps are used to circulate the hot air or fluids. Solar energy can be transffered into electric in two ways: through Photovoltaic Cells and Solar Power Plants. Photovoltaic or solar cells change sunlight directly to electricity. A Solar Power Plant generates electricity whenever heat from the solar collectors heats a fluid to make steam that is used to power generators.

Solar energy __IS__ the way to go for Upper Merion! This energ y source is the right one for Upper Merion because it is very clean for our environment and can make UM a cleaner place to live. In our area we also get a lot of sun which obviously is perfect for the kind of energy we are providing. This is also easy to use which is helpful in many ways. Don't worry too much about the economy because it is free once installed, and we believe that if everyone contributes enough money then we can afford this wonderful technology. Upper Merion does not have enough room for solar power plants so to solve this problem we can simply put solar panels on our homes and buildings and get direct use of the energy. So in conclusion, solar energy is the way to go for our community.

 Solar energy in the past, present, and future...  In the past, we have used solar energy for many things. In the 1890s, solar water heaters were being used a lot. Then by 1897, 30% of all homes had solar water heaters. Then in 1920, we sold tens of thousands of these solar water heaters. Unfortunately, our world began to use natural gases, which are now making a comeback. There is half a million in just California. We are also using solar power for our electrical needs. In 2007, a university won a decathlon with their completely solar house. We will always have the sun so we will always be able to have solar energy. Right now there are already solar heated homes. Businesses use solar power to heat their buildings and items in their buildings. Solar energy is also used to heat our water in some places. Power plants are even offering it out to people. In the future, there will be solar homes and swimming pools. Once this happens we will have no need for fossil fuels. Solar energy will be more commonly used and efficient in the future. We just need to turn people on to solar energy. That is one thing Solarama, Inc. is going to do or at least attempt to do this! It will be less expensive to buy the technology. This will also turn other people on to see what Solarama, Inc. is trying to do. Once people see what we are trying to do then they will see that using fossil fuels was wrong from the start.

Why we chose this resource for our company We chose this resource because we realized that solar energy is honestly the best. It is good for Upper Merion because if we get people turned on to solar energy and everyone contributes, we will have enough money to buy solar cells and turn them into solar panels. After this happens, then people will not use fossil fuels. Once we get people to start using solar energy instead of fossil fuels, then our mission will be complete. Then Solarama, Inc. will have helped save the earth because everyone who contributed will have provided the solar panels. Solarama, Inc. sees a great future in solar power.

Solving our problems As you probably have heard, there are some disadvantages to solar energy, but our company can solve them. Here is how we plan to do that. Solar energy is expensive technology, but if everyone puts in a little bit of money, it will add up in the end and be enough to buy the panels. No worries for after the purchase of the technology because after you buy it and install it, it's free! Sunlight is not always available, but we can help this by storing the sun when it is shining and using it later on when we don't have sunlight. Solar planels also take up a lot of space, but if we put the panels on our homes and buildings we don't have to worry about needing a lot of space to put them.


 * Advantages of Solar Energy || Disadvantages of Solar Energy

|| FAQ Q-What percent of the U.S. uses solar energy? A- The U.S. population uses **only** 0.08% Solar Energy.
 * * clean
 * storable
 * silent
 * free once installed || * expensive to buy technology
 * not available at all hours of the day
 * takes up a lot of space ||

Q-How was Solar Energy used in the past? A- A mathematics instructor converted solar radiation in to mechanical power in 1860. Carells Frittz built the first solar cell although it had a low efficiency.

Q-How long do scientists predict that the sun will be an available resource? A- Scientists predict that the sun will be able to provide us with solar energy and not negatively affect the world for about another billion years.

Our Sponsors:


 * Upper Merion Area School District- http://umasd.org/umasd/site/default.asp
 * Energy Kids Page- http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/solar.html
 * Energy Story-http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter15.html
 * Arizona Solar Center-[|http://www.azsolarcenter.com/index.html>]
 * National Renewable Energy Laboratory- http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_solar.html

For more information or help, please contact us at **sunworks@solarama.org or call 1-800-SOLARAMA **