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Solar Energy Good vs. Bad Characters: Lisa McFilly (Veronica Belawski), Zoe Nightshade (Abigail Lesniak), Jack Roy (Steve Hedin)

Lisa McFilly: Hello, I'm Lisa McFilly, and this is Solar Energy, good vs. bad. Solar Energy is power created by sunlight. It can heat water, and your house. Solar panels and collecters make energy by collecting sunlight and making it into electricity. It is a good way to help the envierment. People disagree about whether or not solar energy is a good idea. So today we'll hear from people on both sides of the argument. First I would like to introduce to you a very smart science professor, Dr.Zoe Nightshade!

Zoe Nightshade:Hello I am excited to share with your audiance some pros about solar energy. One of the greatest benifits of solar energy is that it does not contribute to global warming like most other forms of electricity. Also, it is not very noisy. It can be used in a variety of locations. Even space shuttles use solar panels sometimes!

Lisa:O.K audience, lets get deeper in to this. Did you know that the sun produces more energy in 1 second than humans have made since the begining of time? Our next guest might be able to tell us more about solar energy. Lets give a warm welcome to, Jack Roy!

Jack:If you don't know me I'm Jack Roy.

Lisa:What do you do for a living? Jack:I'm head of a solar panel company. I have alot of drawbacks to share with you about solar energy, but I want to start with saying that solar panels do cause pullusion during manufacturing.

Zoe: Once you install them, they give you a free source of energy.

Jack:What does that have to do with pullution?

Zoe:Uh...

Lisa:Okay, Did you know that solar is the Latin word for sun? Or that it takes about 8 min. for solar energy to reach earth?

Zoe:Did you know that you can put solar panels on roof tops to save space?

Jack:Weather can effect solar cells, because it can cover up the sun.

Lisa:Also, solar energy can heat water and your house! Wow! O.K Jack, back to you.

Jack:If you didn't know, solar panels are very expensive! They are aroud $1,000 and $2,000 dollars!

Zoe:That is alot of money! I personally think that $1,000 to $2,000 dollars can be as much money as a really nice sofa!

Lisa:You're right Zoe, also did you know that a closed car can become a solar collector? The reason why is because the energy of the light passes threw the glass windows and gives the car heat.. Warm poorer places like Africa could buy one big solar panel and use that instead of more expensive electricity. It is very good to the envierment because solar power uses oils that are reusable.

Jack: And solar energy is only able to make energy in the daytime. If you didn't know that sunlight is not constent at one place and at one time, so it is sometimes hard to make during the daytime.

Lisa: Anyways, it's obvious that there are lots of reasons both for and against using solar energy. Thank you to both of our guests for teaching us so much about both sides of this issue, and thank you for listining to, Solar Energy, Good v.s Bad! If you want to learn more about solar energy, go to clean-energy-ideas/ solar energy.com.