Residential Solar Power – How to Make Your Own Energy
The simple fact is that we cannot depend on oil and fossil fuels for our energy forever. Many people are already starting to realize this and are beginning to switch to residential solar power.
Using residential solar power may seem complicated but it’s simpler than you might think. I personally know people that aren’t as smart (or as good looking) as you and they have built their own solar power system.
First, let’s talk about what solar power is and how it works.
Solar power is an amazing thing. The sun blasts more than enough energy to provide us enough power to sustain ourselves. They key is being able to harness this energy and use it to our benefit. Our goal is to take this energy and convert it into electricity. Once we convert to electricity, this will give us all the residential solar power we will ever need.
Electricity is created by solar panels and converted using photovoltaic cells. The word photovoltaic literally means ‘light electricity’. Don’t let these big words confuse you, creating solar power for homes is quite simple and anyone can do it.
A solar generator can cost as little as $200 and can pay for itself within the first few weeks that you put it into use. Not to mention the benefits to the environment.
Let me give you an example of a recent solar generator I built. This is what’s called a ‘portable solar power system’ and can be made with only four pieces of material. (solar panel, charge controller, battery and inverter) These supplies can be purchased from any major hardware store and should cost around $200 total. This is one of the most popular systems to build due to the fact that it is ‘portable’. Take it wherever you like and you will never have to worry about the lack of electricity again. With a system like this, you should be able to get your investment back in as little as two weeks.
I have cut my electric bill be nearly 85% due to the solar panels I have built. Not to mention that the whole setup cost just under $200. Now how’s that for ‘going green’.
Anyone can do this, sometimes on a much larger scale. I’ve have know people who SELL the excess energy that they don’t use back to the electric company. So much for being at the mercy of the power company. Now you can actually MAKE money from them.
The idea of making homemade solar power was unheard of 20 years ago, but today is one of the fastest growing trends in the world. With the ever increasing costs of utility bills it just makes sense for someone to use homemade solar power as an alternative energy resource.
Gen Wright
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What price is your children's future worth?
Ask any family with children or grandchildren what they want for the future and the almost certain answer you get is "We want the kids to have it better than we do."
If you press for further information, "better" turns out to mean economically better off and better educated, or (in many second and third world countries) free to be part of the political solutions (as opposed to being peasants and thus ignored).
Afaik, this human desire is both universal and overwhelming — adults will undergo serious hardships and severe risks to make this possible for their children. [Boat people from Haiti and Cuba demonstrate the level of risks adults will take for this goal.]
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Yesterday [March 2nd], a squib in the Investor’s Business Daily pointed out that the 40% efficient solar cell technology demonstrated in Dec. ’07 requires iridium to manufacture. 2008 world demand for iridium was about 10% of the entire known world supply, without any going for solar energy. It follows that the 40% efficient solar cell is a technology that can’t supply world energy needs.
Solar cells are thus reliant on the old 25% efficient technology — which isn’t near enough to make solar energy competitive with fossil fuels. [The shortfall is about 25% of output -- meaning that a 25% subsidy would be theoretically required AFTER the technology is scaled up several million times to produce significant output.]
So the solar energy effort needs tens to hundreds of billions in research money and is, thus, in the same situation as fusion power — huge research spending required for what may continue to be zero economically useful output.
The ideal situation that the green movement is aiming at is local production of locally consumed energy. This requires that the energy density of production [output per square foot of land area] be several times the energy density of consumption. {You can’t use all the land area for energy production because you need some of it for other uses such as food production and normal development uses.]
This will be easiest where the density of energy consumption is lowest — which is single family residential housing. In other words, it will be possible for the middle class long before it is possible for lower income people [who live in apartments and condos with higher density of energy consumption]. And that will happen before such efforts are practical for even higher energy density uses like offices, retail space, and industrial firms.
Since it isn’t practical now and likely won’t be for decades [you can't command technology to come up with wholly new inventions -- if we could, fusion power would be real already and there would be nothing to discuss here], the need for energy supplied to high density users makes it imperative that power transmission and distribution systems exist and be expanded. [population is expanding, as well as energy consumption per person -- these are both part of the "good life" that families say is the overriding goal for their children.]
"Conservation" amounts to saying that your children won’t have the chance to be better off than you are now. This is so because the rate of improvement in energy efficiency is both small [3% per year historical average in America] and not subject to huge improvements for long periods [the same problem with commanding inventions to be made occurs -- breakthrough science can't be commanded, only searched for].
{Aside: expandable "green" energy sources in America amount to 1/2 of 1 percent of total energy used. That’s one part in 200. Quadrupling "green" energy output won’t even keep up with growth in total demand, which runs three to four percent per year due to the combination of higher population (the next generation of adults has already been born, so the barn door here can’t be closed) and higher energy usage per person [higher energy usage is a prime driver of better life styles -- your computers and cell phones and iPod use energy].
This brings us back to producing more energy with either fossil fuels — which requires more drilling and mining somewhere in the world [either here or in foreign nations], or else clearing the roadblocks and building more nuclear power plants.
35 new nuclear power plants by 2030 … essentially Republican John McCain’s campaign platform … would be only enough to stabilize the amounts of energy produced via fossil fuels in the US and not enough to actually reduce energy from burning coal, gasoline, and natural gas at all (no matter where they are mined or drilled).
Thus, the stark policy choice is: forcing our children and grandchildren to be worse off than we are ["conservation" and lowering output and incomes per family], or throwing the greens under the political bus and building a lot more nuclear power plants [together with more transmission lines and recycling spent nuclear fuel], or burning ever more fossil fuels from ever more mines and drilling.
The current
The current policy is akin to betting the family farm on a technological miracle invention that, after 50 years of spending tens of billions, fusion power hasn’t been able to produce.
Would you prefer to bet your children’s future on a miracle that likely won’t happen, or would you prefer to throw the greens under the political bus and build, mine, drill anyway??
Apparently 3 Trillion dollars and growing.
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There is no price on earth equal to it.
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
John Quincy Adams
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The future of my children is worth every bit of what you see in this video, and NOT A PENNY IN BAILOUTS will evr brighten the future of one child in this country. What our 2 parties are doing is called economic enslavement. It is not new, it has been done many times before, and it ALWAYS involves millions of dead. I hate to say it, but we are on the threshold of a second American revolution, and if we don’t fight it, we will all live as slaves to the Gloablists who are as we speak forming a One World Government. This economic condition we see today is no accident, I assure you. No one can screw up this bad by accident. All of the specific firebreaks that kept EXACTLY this from happening…again…were strategically removed by Congress. All of the civil Liberties that keep us safe from tyranny are being eroded. Gordon Brown is here today talking to Obama about a Global New Deal. It is a BAD idea.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhR3rnWN32g