How to Make Your Own Power Living Off the Grid
Author: Donald Whitehead
Making your own power and living off the grid is actually much easier than most people think. For some reason just the promt at the mere idea of an undertaking of such a project seems to imply complexities to most. There are several methods for creating off grid energy all of which are very easy to implement. The only really important component is the power source itself. Important and very necessary. The methods that will be discussed in this article uses the wind and the sun as the power sources. These power sources are considered renewable power sources because they are continuous and everlasting and don't need any type of interaction from man to work.
The second energy source is wind energy. Wind energy is the most popular type of renewable energy and it is used to turn a propeller which activates a generator that creates electricity much in the very same way as an automobile creates power to keep it's battery charged. In order to use this method in a living off the grid setting the generator is mounted 50-60 feet off the ground for the best results inside a shell with a propeller on it's exterior to catch the wind. A wind generator is not at all complicated to make and instructions on what you need for parts and how to figure out out just what you'll need comes with kit plans. The parts for generators are few and are easy to come by. The entire procedure may take an average person a couple of days to do after all parts are rounded up with most set ups.
For the novice or anyone, for that matter, who wishes to build their own homemade wind generator to start producing their own off the grid energy there are plans available that are very specific that also have easy to read text tutorials and or video tutorials that will allow you to build your own generator. Usually there is some type of support in place to ensure that your build goes without a hitch. Living off the grid energy is fast becoming the way of the future for powering homes and large factories too. It is a great way to help the environment, save tremendously on power bills, gives home owners incentives like tax breaks by way of tax credits and rebates, and they are a good way to increase property value.
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I need a schematic on how to make your own Power Plant using coil and magnets. Where can I go or do you have1?
You will build a power plant that meets the following criteria: starts with a primary energy source (hydropower,windpower) You may not use any other sources of electricities like batteries. The source should spin a turbine. The turbine must be attached to a generator that YOU MADE! You may not use a store bought generator. The generator should be attached to a small light bulb. The power plant must be stable and well made and work safely.
Is there a way to make your own Power Point Template?
I am wanting to make my scrapbook of my kids better and tired of using the same templates. I can’t afford to buy any packages. It there a way to make/use my own? Thanks for your help.
how do I add with colors and designs. Not placements of wording. I also am looking to have every template different for each slide.
can you make your own power bait for fishing?
does anyone know how to make your own power bait ( dough bait) for fishing? does anyone have a recipe and instructions? Thanks!
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
If you get to make your own power source to run anything, what will it be?
Be creative! :] Cow-powered, Moon-powered, etc. Or you can just mention the one existing now. Solar-powered. Best creative power source wins!
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Look up “alternators” on science project websites. Proper alternators use carbon brushes to connect a spinning coil inside a half cylindrial magnet. For a science project, the easiest apparatus is just a bar magnet spinning inside a fixed coil. The magnet spins, and produces alternative current in the coil. Use a diode to convert the AC into DC.
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recycled beer. of course, as soon as my innovative power system was introduced, there would be a shortage of recycled beer, causing civic minded people like me and my friend to come to the aid of energy starved people everywhere. SERIOUSLY, we need to do more to use garbage and sewage to create methane based fuel and energy.
You can pay a “big bill” to buy a wind turbine or solar panels.
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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.