energy

  • Solar power can light up the NPHS campus

    Solar is often seen as uneconomic and unviable to the consumer. It is expensive to install the panels, especially over a larger surface area. To a school district with thousands of square feet of flat roof space, installation of solar seems like the ideal dream that is as impractical as it is wonderful. However,…

  • Could renewable energy be the answer to our energy problems?

    In recent years, the U.S. has increasingly been using renewable energy instead of nonrenewable sources, such as methane and petroleum. Yet, renewable energy sources still only make up less than 15 percent of the nation’s energy use, the rest being either nuclear or nonrenewable energy. The renewable energy sources that the world currently exploits…