With the economic crisis the world is facing right now, more and more people are turning to solar power for electricity. The reason for this is that you can save tons of money on your energy costs. Some people are even able to disconnect from their power companies and be completely energy independent.
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This is done by installing solar power energy panels on to your home. You do not have to pay a professional thousands of dollars to come out and install solar panels for you. You can do it yourself. Find a book that has detailed instructions on how to install your own solar panels. I prefer one with diagram illustrations so that it is easier to comprehend. All of the supplies you need can be found at your local home improvement store for just a couple hundred bucks. Your solar panels will quickly pay for themselves with the amount you save on electricity.
Once you have everything you need, putting it together and installing it is a simple process that can be done in just one weekend. Your home will be more energy efficient and you will be amazed at the tiny utility bills that you will start getting each month. Or, if you prefer, you can install enough solar power in your home that you no longer have to pay for electricity at all!
Not only will you be saving money, but because solar power is made from renewable energy sources (the sun), you will also be helping to save the environment. The energy that your utility company is currently using to power your home is quickly depleting our non-renewable resources. Using solar energy will help to conserve these.
Think about it. If half the people on earth that depend on the power company were to switch to their own home solar powerred system what a better situation we would all be in right now. With the recent financial crisis in America we all need to think about the coming years and how to become more self-sustainable than ever before. We need to stop polluting around the world. I strongly believe solar is weighing heavy in the start of a free energy and almost non-toxic way of living. There are of course many more ways we need to improve as humans here on earth. Our energy demands are definetly on the Top 10 list of ways to improve on.
Save the earth and your pocketbook with just a couple hundred dollars and one little trip to the home improvement store! You will be glad once you are finished and bragging to your friends and family about actually doing something to help, being part of the solution. It won’t take you long either with this guide that I used to make my own solar power sysytem. All the information is included so I didn’t have to further research any of the process from buying to building to self powerring my entire house. Good luck buiding your own home solar power system.
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June 20th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Go to canadiantire's web site and search solar panel.
they range from $30 — $1000
June 20th, 2009 at 8:02 am
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June 20th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Let me just say, the cost would be too much to be worthwhile. It appears you would need at least 750 watts. if you wanted to use the electrical things at night too, the system would have to deliver that much power for the equipment, and more to charge the batteries. Make it a total of 1500 watts, and you would need between 10 and 15 panels, plus an inverter, mounting rails for the panels, two fused disconnect switches and wire. I expect around $10,000 or more.
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June 20th, 2009 at 9:20 am
I think if you changed the cooling to a drive system E,Z . the cooling system could be a transmission the dodge bros came up with the hydromatic now its automatic if you use the cooling system as a automatic trans insted of trans fluid use a gas like a/c with oil freon / oil /one way ports the gas expands at a coole temp and canot go back through a smaller port
June 20th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
If you want the heat energy, consider tracking mirrors at the site and solar collectors on the houses. If you want electric energy, that area is enough to support a traditional steam turbine, much more cost-effective than photovoltaic. That area is about 15 times the area that Solar One used to generate 10 megawatts in the Mohave Desert, so it could supply a theoretical maximum of 150 megawatts during peak sunshine. That's probably enough to match the demand of about 25,000 homes. Best bet would be to feed it to the electric power grid.
June 20th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
install solar power panels its that easy !
This will heat your water, For energy you can install a wind generator but be warned this might anger neighbours who might not appreciate the noise of the fan rotating in the wind.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:29 am
Wow, you could probably power a house with a sizeable one of those.
June 21st, 2009 at 10:52 am
that is quit cool
June 21st, 2009 at 11:37 am
!! Safety First !!
Always wear arc welding glasses or very dark sunglasses around large mirrors! If you are using sunglasses then check their UV rating with a sunglasses shop.
Even the glare reflecting off the equipment can cause long term eye damage.
I like the earlier comment by a viewer about painting it black.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:46 am
* Advantages
- Solar energy is a renewable resource. Oil, on the other hand, is not renewable
- Solar cells are totally silent. This is in comparison to the noise generated by drills, turbines and pumps for oil
- Solar energy is non-polluting. Solar power creates no air pollution, greenhouse gases, or radioactive nuclear wastes
- Solar cells require very little maintenance (they have no moving parts that will need to be fixed), and they last a long time.
- Although solar panels or solar lights, etc., may be expensive to buy at the onset, you can save money in the long run. After all, you do not have to pay for energy from the sun. On the other hand, all of us are aware of the rising cost of oil.
- Solar powered lights and other solar powered products are also very easy to install. You do not even need to worry about wires.
- Solar panels can be used to run small vehicles
- Sun light is a free energy source
* Limitations
- Solar cells/panels, etc. can be very expensive initially
- Solar power cannot be created at night. It must be collected during the day and stored for later use.
- Solar power is still developing and in a state of continuous improvement
- To provide large scale amounts of energy huge areas of panels would be required
June 21st, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I hate how most of these videos show next to no load against it. If u had a constant load on that engine, soon as u cut the sun from it. It would of stopped very quickly.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
No, it would not. If the magnifying glass is the same area as the solar collectors, then it would be the same amount of energy the solar collectors would be gathering without the magnifying glass.
In a way it would be cheaper, using cheap mirrors to focus the sun's rays onto a smaller solar collector surface area. And solar collectors are far more expensive. But as to more power? No.
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:59 am
hi dan thanks for your great vids
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June 22nd, 2009 at 5:25 am
Look up solar solar power supplies, battery charger and solar charger on the Internet.Lots of good information there.
You will need to know how much current you will be drawing, the number of hours you will be using power, the rating of the power supply and the insolation ( this is spelled correctly) from insolation tables on the Internet.
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Where did you get the engine?
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:07 am
So hook one of these bad boys to a cars exhaust for endless supply of heat. They could then in turn power battery packs if you turned your flywheel into an alternator.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:11 am
Solar generators produce electricity using so-called solar cells or photovoltaic cells, which convert the energy of sunlight to electric energy by the photovoltaic effect. Solar panel is used to save your money once your fixed it to your home you will access that power to all your home appliances.. You have to buy solar panel setup along with inverter which going to invert the AC into DC power. For more details search in google..
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Comment to "Ed" added…
There are two main types of solar power. One produces electricity, the other produces heat.
The electrical type are called "photovoltaics", the heat type are "thermal".
Photovoltaics are not presently very efficient, converting less than 15% of the suns energy to electricity, but by the time you build, they should be better, and cheaper. Thermal solar is much more efficient, especially if you use it to heat your water, because the system runs all year. Home heating is not as good, because winter is not a good time to collect solar. When you design your house, you can take advantage of "passive" solar, which is basically putting a lot of good windows on the south side (or north side if you are south of the equator!) and letting the winter sun shine in. These windows need to be very good, or have an insulator to cover them at night and cloudy days or they will gain energy all day, only to lose all of it at night.
As far as your house goes, it's not so much a matter of how big it is, as how well insulated it is. If you "super insulate" it, you will need very very little heating or cooling energy.
The other cost you will have is for things like computers, refrigerators, TVs, sound systems, lights, fans, cooking equipment and water heating. By picking the most efficient, you can reduce the size of the photovoltaic system you would need, and using solar water heating will handle 50% of the yearly amount with present technology for about $3500. A photovoltaic system to handle all your electrical needs would be quite expensive now, in the $10,000 to $20,000 range, but that cost will continue to fall, and by the time you build it should be closer to $5000.
Hey Ed….I don't know when you bought your system, or what other costs were associated with it…but 6KW systems don't cost 40K anymore…this from Solar Today "A 25-year warranty accompanies the Sharp panels. In 2003, we paid $18,000, which included the eight batteries, two inverters, hardware, 6,000 watts of solar panels and labor."….and King solar sells a "whole house" package for $11,000… but they don't say how big it is. The average home in California uses about 7000 KW per month…so to get that much is going to be more expensive. Our young friend here is thinking ahead. If a house is located right and designed well, then the most efficient appliances and lighting is selected, it would be easy to live well on half that 7000KW.
Good luck, and good thinking!