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Alternative Energy Solar Power-Cheapest Alternative Energy Solar Power
Author: N Jamal
You may be aware that a commercially sold solar panel has its worth in thousands of dollars. But, did you know you can go solar for a fraction of that cost. To be specific, you can go solar for as little as 0!
Why Go Solar?
Solar panels are made up of small PV cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The PV cells capture sun light and store it in a battery. The energy stored in the battery is then transformed into usable electricity using an inverter. Solar power is a renewable resource of energy and free to harness once you have installed solar panels.
Installing ready made solar panels can be pretty expensive and can cost you anywhere from ,000 - ,000 to solar power you entire home. You can solar power your whole house for a fraction of this amount if you learn how to generate alternative energy solar power on your own. Building these systems from scratch is cheap and easy; all the required raw materials can be easily bought from the local electrical or hardware store. This also cuts down on any further impact on the environment as the solar panels do not go through any manufacturing processes.
Going Solar Is Easy!
Various kits are available to download from different vendors that will teach you to generate alternative energy solar power. The downloaded kits include steps for calculating the actual electricity that you need from solar panels based upon your electricity bills. Once you have that information you can start building your own solar panels, typically you can easily build a 100 watt solar panel in a day very easily.
Now, that’s not something very substantial, but when you can easily redo the whole process over and over again, you can completely go off-grid with a few days of work and perhaps sell back the extra power back to the utility company. Now, how is that for a change? You’ll get a check from the utility provider!
Save Heaps!
Once you start generating your own alternative energy solar power, the installed systems will pay for themselves many times over the course of their life. Generally, solar panels have an average lifetime for 25-30 years requiring no to little maintenance. So, you do the math here and calculate how much you are set to save!
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Describe all of the renewable energy alternatives: wind power, solar energy, and biomass fermentation?
o What are some challenges with using and managing wind power, solar energy, and biomass fermentation as alternative renewable
energy resources?
o Name at least one other renewable energy resource.
o Include a response to the following: Nonrenewable energy resources include coal,
oil, and natural gas. Describe three common challenges with managing
nonrenewable energy resources.
Alternative energy resources? solar power, wind power, hydroelectric power?
I am giving a presentation on alternative energy and need to find a good source of statistics, graphs, charts, diagrams etc to use. specifically, i will be referring to hydroelectric, wind and solar power.
thanks for your help in advance
answerer 1, you need to chill out…its for college. im not an oil barren you dodger
Is it possible to run a car off of alternative energy other than ethanol and solar power?
Is it possible, or has there been a study done, on running a car off of alternative energy sources, besides solar and biofuels, such as Geothermal Energy; Tidal Energy; and Wind Energy?
Thanks.
That’s logical. Just had to check.
solar power alternative energy photovoltaic cell panel help explanation?
http://www.njsolarpower.com/images/SI_fa…
could somebody please give me a good explanaton of the process illustrated…I need it for a presentation but I don’t really understand the whole charge controller/inverter/battery thing
cheers
also if you can answer that, you probably know the answer to this too. What are current widespread and tested applications of solar power?
thanks
what are problems associated with alternative energy sources such as solar power and nuclear?
im doing a project for school and it asks what are the problems associated with alternative energy sources.
now, i know fossil fuels(coal, oil etc…) create greenhouse gasses but solar power, it seems there is nothing wrong with it
is there anything wrong with it?
A graph of how much revenue oil barons and the refining process would lose in relation the % of renewable energy as a total of energy production would be the most pertinent in modern society.
Yes we think that you huge businesses should stop your hugely profitable exploits and instead spend billions investing in renewable energy. Afterall it’s only money isn’t the planets more important and I am sure you didn’t become Oil barons because you are incredibly selfish and want far more than everyone else even if it means millions have to starve and die and suffer.
People wake up stop your governments from supporting these people renationalise your power industry invest in research and maximise renewable energy. Or sit back and let them charge you interest on the loans your govenment takes to buy weapons that you manufacture to send your own people to die for their profit and finacial security.
Death to MYism long live WEism.
Hurdles in using solar power:
1. It’s affected by time(day/night), climatic conditions and geographic location.
2. Initial Investments are high.
3. All technological developments are made by keeping the conventional energy sources in mind. Thus, solar energy cannot be integrated easily with these technologies involving additional cost.
Cons of nuclear energy:
1. Disposal of radioactive waste material is not easy.
2. Working with radioactive substance is hazardous and can cause genetic mutations in humans if they come in contact with such a substance.
3. Controlled reactors are required for generating energy so that the fission chain reaction does not go out of proportion.
4. Radioactive material is rare and available only in a few places of the world.
Well your link is broken, but if you are talking about charge controllers and inverters then you probably want an explanation of how solar works.
Basically the solar photovoltaic panels create electricity (ie: electrons moving due to the photons etc…). The electricity that is generated from a solar panel is DC (direct current) and a typical home uses AC (alternating current) so the inverter is the device which converts DC to AC so that solar generated electricity can be used in the home or business.
Now before the electricity goes to the inverter, if the solar system has a battery backup, the electricity can be routed to a battery. This is where the charge controller comes into the picture. The charge controller will take a preset amount of electricity from the total output of the solar panel array and put that electricity (DC) into the batteries. Then when the battery is full the charge controller will realize this and stop pumping electricity to it. If you dont already know, its bad for a battery if you continue to charge it after it is fully charged. (degrades the life)
Hope that clears it up.
As far as solar applications. Now and days solar can be used pretty much anywhere for anything, even mission critical stuff like hospital backup. The technology is very well tested and the price has dropped to a point where it is a very feasible solution.
Okay, I don’t think anyone’s taken this seriously yet, so…
How about, hydro-electric, geothermal steam, wind turbines, augmentative passive solar, such as water heating and daylighting (somwhat different then solar lighting, or skylighting, although skylights count.) Also let’s not forget rain harvesting, and gray-water usage.these save water, and energy from a treatment, billing, delivery standpoint.
Now that I asnwered the name other part: challenges, what happens when there is no sun/wind/water-flowing, if you have all of these, it won’t happen that often, but when it does, are batteries a practical solution? Won’t they eventually wind up in land-fill off-gasing? If you only use one or two of the 3 majors, what about when any of those aren’t available? Availability is still a big concern, hopefully that will be the next stock-market bubble and drive a massive influx of green-products.
The common challenges with non-renewables, rather than starting from an environmental standpoint, how about we start with what they’re called. NON-RENEWABLE, eventually we will run out. It’s theorized that we’ve found all oil on earth, and will start a downward turn on production by somtime in 2008 or 2009. Aside from that, there’s the obvious global warming issues.
O hope this helps some.
Solar is not practical. Geothermal is not possible for a car. Wind is not practical either. Tidal energy is not possible. Any internal combustion engine will run on propane / methane / natural gas (they are all basically the same thing) with very little modification. The exhaust is a little better than 98% clean. Any internal combustion engine can be modified to burn hydrogen, with warm water vapor as the only exhaust. Any diesel engine can burn cooking oils. Much lower exhaust emissions. Electric cars are possible and do exist, but the costs are high and the maintenance is high. Fuel cell cars are here but are high maintenance and do not perform well in cold temperatures and refuse to operate in very cold temperatures (they freeze solid – water does that).
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