Portable Solar Power Generators - Build Your Own
Author: Josh
It has become quite common for people to research building their own portable solar power generators rather than purchasing retail. It isn't that hard to do and the retail price for solar systems are rather high. With a little know how and elbow grease anyone can learn to make their own portable solar power generators.
When you build your own portable solar power generators, you have control of exactly how much power you want to generate. You determine how big your panel will be and how you are going to store your power.
Another advantage of learning to build your own solar system is that you can always add to it later if you decide you want more power. Simply build another solar panel and battery then add it to your system.
Here's how portable solar power generators work, basically.
1. You build a solar panel and put it somewhere it can get some nice sunlight.
2. Channel the energy produced by the panel through a charge controller.
3. From the charge controller the energy is stored in a deep cycle battery (eg. marine battery).
4. The energy in the marine battery is put through an inverter to convert it from Direct Current (DC) to Alternating Current (AC).
5. You plug your coffee maker into the inverter and brew up a nice hot cup of joe.
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In order for you to be able to successfully and professionally make your own portable solar power generators, its a good idea to pick up a guide. These guides can take you through each step from finding exactly how much power you need to generate, to how to get that power flowing. Over at http://www.renewable-edge.info is a great guide which teaches you to make renewable energy for any application.
why don’t we have geothermal generators and solar powered generators on Venus?
seems like a waste of good sunlight and heat to not be trying to harness some of it right now. think of how much energy we could be getting from there. i know it would cost too much and would probably take more energy to set it up and go get the energy than it will provide, but should we be brainstorming right now how to overcome these inproficiencies? << wow what a word.
Could a solar powered UV generator completely reverse AGW?
A follow-up to my last question about microwave generators.
If we had a solar powered device capable of producing radiation only in the UVB band, and it were directed straight up, would this cause the stratosphere to heat due to the higher concentration of ozone there?
And if so, then since the device is solar powered and is essentially ‘stealing’ energy from the sun that would have otherwise gone into warming the surface, it will have the effect of redistributing solar energy from the surface to the stratosphere.
So if enough of these devices are built on a large enough scale, would that “rebalance” the energy imbalance caused by global warming (where the upper atmosphere is cooling and lower atmosphere is warming) and eventually bring both tropospheric and stratospheric temperatures back to preindustrial levels, even without worrying about CO2?
Don’t worry about practicality, I am just wondering if the physics add up or if there’s some key piece I’m missing.
since the oceans are absorbing 95% of the energy, i don’t think so.
clearly if you could cover 1/2 the oceans with mirrors, you’d be able to reverse global warming.
but you’d create an environmental disaster in the process.
we’ve already reduced fish stocks to critical levels in much of the ocean.
depriving the remaining ocean of sunlight would reduce algae and all of the fish that depend on it.
so the 2 problems are,
1. scale, it really is not scalable to the size needed, and
2. location, it doesn’t lend itself to being deployed where the problem is most serious.
Can windmills also act as solar power generators?
Windmills are out in the open spaces and very high. Could we not wrap solar panels around them to create even more energy ?
Sure we/you COULD… however, what is the point? The area of the ground below is more efficiently covered with solar electrical panels than the body of a tower with a wind powered generator on top. There is NO point in using the smaller area of the top of a tower than simple plain open space at ground level… Besides, when you do the daily/weekly cleaning to remove dust, it is MUCH more practical to clean panels at ground level than a hundred feet in the air… Note that wind towers are FAR apart to reduce turbulence from one tower causing problems with the air flow of the next tower. Haven’t you wondered WHY wind towers are hundreds of feet tall and hundreds of feet apart? You would better use the flat space BETWEEN the towers than the actual towers themselves… Use some common sense already!
wouldn’t make any difference.
most of the microwave energy would be lost in space.
reflected light is also lost.
there was a pretty good weather channel special that pointed out that 95% of solar heating is absorbed by the oceans.
that’s why it’s not generally visible outside your front door.
it’s also why solutions that address the ocean are far more important.
Would a solar powered microwave generator warm the planet?
Assume that the albedo of the solar panel is equal to the albedo of the surrounding land, and that the generator is not a blackbody, so that 100% of its power output falls within the microwave band.
Will this device warm the planet more than if it did not exist at all? Or would the visible light converted into electricity by the solar panel equally and exactly offset the energy contribution to the atmosphere from the microwaves, thus keeping total energy (and thus temperature) constant?
I am planning to open a medium size furniture factory in my country Nigeria,, can it be solar powered?
I planned that the factory be fully mechanised. Public power supply is very poor. I wanted to purchase diesel generators but i have been advised by a friend that solar generators are more cost effective. Is solar a good source of energy to power such a factory?
Yes, it can be fully solar. Very power comsuming factories are autonomous.
If you dont find how to, if you want e-mail me and i will put you in touch with some companies.
For your info, some companies not only are autonomous, they resell power while they dont use it.
Because we’re not there yet! Also, you have to get inventions of Nikola Tesla to transmit power from there to here. And: We’re not making full use of the sunlight we have.