Make Your Own Electricity For Dirt Cheap
Solar energy equipment demand is continually rising, fuelled by a 'green' trend that's sweeping the nation.
With more people concerned about the environment and electricity bills that just keep rising, alternate power systems to create your own electricity are in high demand.
We are now at a point in time when this is a viable solution that gives you total control over electricity, which is something you really want to control since you rely on it heavily all day every day.
Making your own electricity means that you will benefit greatly indeed.I can guarantee it. Just look at some of the benefits listed here:
- It will instantly lower your electricity bills
- You'll have your system in place within days
- It's simple and you can do it yourself. Why pay someone else 00s of bucks when it's as simple as can be and dirt cheap too?
You can put less than 0 on the table and have a professional grade system. It's a one shot deal and you wont have to pay anything else.
The best part is, you can trade places with your power company and sell it your electricity for a change. Send THEM a bill for electricity for a change.
So while you're saving the planet and cutting your energy bills to [POSTCONTENT], you can actually make some money!
I love solar systems, but you should be prepared before you start:
Make sure you get quality instructions. This is electricity we are dealing with so you want to get it right. Also, make sure the instructions are very detailed so there won't be any gaps in your understanding. If you can find a video tutorial that's the best.
All of the equipment needed is dirt cheap and can mostly be found at your hardware store. If you have a good kit it will also show you where to get some of the equipment for free(!) and at the very least tell you where are the best places you can buy all of the other parts.
Solar isnt the only way you can go. Here are some more options for you:
- The wind power. It's much the same as solar energy in that it's cheap to install and you can do it yourself in days. But with wind not as predictable as the sun's rays, it might prove less efficient for you
- Another renewable energy alternative is hydro-power, i.e. the power of water. That's how most electricity is made on a large scale but you're not going to build a damn in your backyard so it's less effective as a power source alternative for regular people with regular homes.
Don't bother with any others. Seriously, trust me - Solar energy is one of your best options.
More and more people are looking to reduce their bills. Don't hesitate on this one. It's easy, cheap, and your kids (and the environment) will thank you for it.
ยท How could you live without electricity? Could you make your own electricity? How?
Power4Home – anyone try doing this make your own electricity?
I am thinking of buying it – a kit – but what is in it? I should look into it more before. They say guaranteed $ back within 60 days. Anyone out there try this? Ad says you can make electricity for less than $200 and store energy in batteries they help you find for free. Sounds good.
How does one MAKE his own electricity?
This week I got my annual electricity bill and report. It said that I consumed 5400kwh of power in 2006. I would like to know if it’s possible to make your own electricity or at least save it from somewhere. Because I think my electricity bill is TOO big for my budget, help me to save ok!
I spent a week on an island in Scotland once with a group of people, The house had no mains electricity.. Only a diesel generator . We used the generator one night then decided we enjoyed it much better without electricity.. We used candles for light and the log fire for warmth. It was a wonderful holiday and going back to basic living was very therapeutic
PS we all survived the experience
How do you make your own power or electricity so you don’t have to pay a big bill?
explain the turbine engine power. E-mail me for more details
Power4Home (or any of those “kits”) is NOT a viable option for saving money. At best, they’re a grade 9 science experiment, at worst they’re a scam.
Technically, you can “make energy for less than $200 and store it in batteries”. What you can’t do is make enough energy to power anything more than a small DC circuit. Want to power anything in your home? You’ll need a DC to AC inverter (a few thousand bucks). Also, if you’re going to hook it up to anything in your home you’ll need a proper electrician to install it to avoid frying the power-line workers if the power ever goes out.
Effective alternative energy is high tech stuff. If you really are serious about it, please call your local professional installer and be prepared to pay the real monetary cost.
You can pay a “big bill” to buy a wind turbine or solar panels.
Later:
To Tareq: It won’t work.
The reason it won’t work is that the COP figures you’re using, while realistic for refrigeration units as they are typically applied, are not valid for the setup you’re describing. They are only valid when the condenser coil is in free air at some specified temperature, *with adequate air circulation*.
In other words, the heat from the condenser coil is dumped at a relatively low delta-T, spread over lots and lots of air.
The COP > 1 is really only possible because the outside air where we dump the heat is pretty darn voluminous, and it’s easy to move a lot of it through our evap coils.
You’re proposing to do something entirely different: put the heat from the condenser coil to work. The coil will no longer be in free air, instead its heat will be captured and used to provide energy for the next stage in the cycle, which will turn it into electricity and use it to power the first stage, with some left over. Right? Great idea! Only about 50,000 people have thought of it (to judge by what I read on the various “free energy” forums).
The trouble is that this breaks all the rules under which that greater-than-1 COP was measured.
I understand why it SEEMS as if it will work. A typical refrigeration system might have a COP of 4 or so: It takes a watt of power in to move 4 watts of heat. Now if we can just take that 4 watts of heat and use it to power that same refrigeration system…
The trouble is that if you do that – if you try to capture the heat output from the first stage and put it to work – it will be far, far more difficult to get the heat from the first stage out of its condenser coil and into the next stage. Under those conditions it will take a lot more energy input to the compressor motor and whatever else is in that first stage. The COP of the first stage will fall well below 1. Oops.
THAT is basic thermodynamics, and the sooner you learn it, the less time you will waste on things that don’t work.
> The same cycle I explained will produce 9.85 Kw which will
> be extracted to produce super heated fluid
Ah, you want “super heated fluid”? Well that would be a good idea – if possible – because your second stage would be grossly inefficient (due to Carnot) if run on a low delta-T heat source.
Unfortunately for you this touches on WHY a refrigeration system with a COP greater than 1 is not going to be able to power itself, and why it is not violating conservation of energy: It is not emitting “super” high temperatures.
Rather it creates a high temperature difference on the “cold side”, but in a small volume of air, in exchange for a low temperature difference on the output, “hot side”, in a much larger volume of air.
This is an increase in net entropy, enough so that it is indeed possible to move 4 watts of heat with 1 watt input to the system. The increase in entropy is what “pays for” the apparent gain. We aren’t really getting something for nothing – far from it!
Now… it IS possible to tune an evaporative heat transfer cycle so that it produces a higher temperature difference on the output side than it started with on the input side. But then (because you are decreasing entropy) the COP will fall below 1.
You can’t win, you can’t break even, and you can’t get out of the game.
In case you haven’t been convinced yet, here is another way to think of it:
Suppose you go to a working a/c unit and put a thermometer in the heated air coming off of the condenser coil. (I’ll wait.)
You will likely find that it is not very much warmer than the surrounding air.
Let’s assume it’s 30 degrees C, on a day when the ambient air temp is 20 C. Convert these to Kelvin and you have 293K and 303K.
Then the absolute maximum possible efficiency with which you could recover energy from that exhaust heat is given by Carnot:
1 – (Tlow / Thigh) = 1 – (293/303) = about 3.4 percent!
So, ok… One watt into the a/c unit, 4 watts of waste heat out. But because this is such low grade heat (not much hotter than ambient) it is flatly impossible to use much of it. Of that 4 watts you can’t recover more than about an 0.14 watts! This obviously will NOT be enough to keep the first stage running.
That is why an a/c unit with a COP > 1 is not giving you something for nothing, and can never so much as power itself, let alone anything else.
Again… yes, you can tune an a/c cycle to produce a larger temperature differential than it starts with… and then the COP drops to below 1. So you can’t ‘win’ that way either.
you cannot make electricity without a large cash investment in equipment – solar panels, generators etc…
conservation will save you money
get those new light bulbs that save electricity
have your power company check your house out to see where you can save energy
What are some of the simplest ways to make your own electricity at home..? Apart from wind turbine…?
I’m looking for ideas to save money and produce our own electricity…
Actually we ran our farm totally off of the grid. We had 8 solar panels and 6 battery packs and one small wind turbine .The only time we had to use the back up generater was when it was cloudy and no wind. We ran a 16 room farmhouse with no problem. If you check out mother earth living website they have some great ideas along these lines good luck