Why Use Solar Powered Water Features
Every garden owner knows the peace and tranquility imbued by water features. But the cost can be enough to deter many these days due to the cost of electricity. These are not the only costs we should take into account when we think about buying water features. The costs to the environment due to the large amounts of electricity they consume are far reaching.
Even a small water pump for our back garden pond can be expensive when we consider that it is running 24 hours per day for 7 days a week, every day of the month. This can easily mount up to $30 per month to run. Factor in a water fountain or one other water feature and you’re talking $60 per month! You can recover the cost of a solar powered water feature after just one or two months of use at these prices.
The environmental costs of energy production are also something which we should not overlook. The production of refined oil from oil shale is an intensive process which not only requires a lot of energy in itself but also produces a lot of useless waste products. Mining of coal and oil, both above ground and below, causes unnatural elevations of the land and displaces a lot of flora and fauna from its natural habitat. (more…)