After a varied career in mining rights, mortgage lending, and environmental cleanup, entrepreneur Samuel “Sam” Raymer launched his wind energy prospecting firm, Jett Marketing. In addition to playing an instrumental role in Michigan’s burgeoning wind sector, Sam Raymer has a professional interest in other applications of renewable energy such as solar farms.

1. Three
Environmentally-
Sustainable
Benefits of Solar
Power
Sam Raymer

2. Introduction
• After a varied career in mining rights, mortgage lending, and
environmental cleanup, entrepreneur Samuel “Sam” Raymer launched
his wind energy prospecting firm, Jett Marketing. In addition to playing
an instrumental role in Michigan’s burgeoning wind sector, Sam Raymer
has a professional interest in other applications of renewable energy
such as solar farms.
Replacing or supplementing traditional carbon-emitting energy sources
with solar-derived energy has a multipronged impact on the
environment. Firstly, solar panels have a much lower life-time carbon
footprint than fossil fuels or even other forms of renewable energy.
Photovoltaic cells can off-set the carbon emitted to produce and deliver
them throughout their usable lifetime, which can exceed 20 years.
Additionally, solar energy uses up much less water during the
manufacturing process, unlike coal or nuclear, which both use significant
amounts of water during production. Solar energy panels also don’t
produce any runoff that can contaminate groundwater or airborne
pollutants.