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Solar System Energy-Cheapest Solar System Energy
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?
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 solar system energy 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 solar system energy. 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 begin generating solar system energy, it will pay for itself many times over the course of its 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!
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/technology-articles/solar-system-energycheapest-solar-system-energy-1597174.html
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how can I convert my home air condition system into solar energy?
i want to convert the electrical system in my home air condition into solar energy. I have central air at this time.
How much money to build SOLAR PANEL (solar energy system)?
I read this article on good things about solar energy.
and it said ‘Solar panel construction has advanced significantly in the last 20 years and can withstand almost any weather condition. It is not even that expensive since technology has advanced so much that panel cost has been reduced significantly.’
So i was wondering how much does it actually cost now!
How much money is needed to build SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM?
How much money does it need to build SOLAR PANEL (solar energy system)?
I read this article on good things about solar energy.
and it said ‘Solar panel construction has advanced significantly in the last 20 years and can withstand almost any weather condition. It is not even that expensive since technology has advanced so much that panel cost has been reduced significantly.’
So i was wondering how much does it actually cost now
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Is it hard installing a residential solar energy system? A simple one.?
I was wondering if I can build a residential solar energy system easily? I am pretty good in using tools and everything.
Where and how i can take Solar energy system?
I want to use solar energy for my home usage, How and from where i can take complete Unit,and what will be its cost? Remember i am in Pakistan,And also can purchase from UAE.
It depends.
A small one is $10 and one to keep a big house supplied with power can be more than $50000
Want to make solar energy? Well technically, it’s already being made by the sun… but you know what I mean. It can be fun to take the sun’s energy and put it to good use. Perhaps you’d like to have some or all electrical appliances in your home be running on solar power? Of course, generating electricity isn’t the only way to put the sunlight to work for us. It can also be used for heating, making hot water or even for cooking as well. Let’s explore this a little…
Let’s make solar energy work to heat water, as it can be pretty simple. First you need something to hold the water in, then something to focus the sun’s light with, and then something within the water to then focus the sunlight upon. Let’s say you have a clear acrylic cylinder – maybe about a foot wide, just for sake of illustration – the light can shine right through the clear water and heat it up… but not very well. If the cylinder is clear and the water is clear, then maybe 99% of the light is just flying through it and doing nothing to the water that it’s passing through.
How can we make solar energy heat up the water then? Well, here’s where we need a focuser – take some mylar or aluminum foil or other reflectant material, and cover about 1/3 to ½ of the cylinder with the shiny side in, so that the sunlight passing through the clear water will reflect off the inside of the back of the cylinder (in relation to the sun’s light) and back through the water again. The curvature of the reflectant material covering the contour of the cylinder acts like a parabolic mirror with not only reflects, but focuses the light like a lens. However, the cylinder and the water are still both clear… now light is passing through and being reflected back, but we need something within to absorb the light and heat – a sort of solar heat collector, if you will.
Try a bit of anodized aluminum, colored black; maybe a bar, or maybe a tube or pipe. Have it run down the center of the water-filled cylinder where the reflector/focuser can reflect and focus upon the black, central piece. The black anodized aluminum rod will then heat up from the focused sunlight (and aluminum heats up fast) and transfer all that heat directly to the water through physical contact with it. Now you have a solar hot water heater! The sunlight passes through the cylinder and the water within and falls upon the reflector/focuser, and then it gets focused upon the central black anodized aluminum rod, witch gets very hot rather quickly and in turn heats up the water very efficiently.
If you’re interested in learning more this site will help you: http://bit.ly/at7TzY
Depending on the rules in your area, you may be able to install at least part of it. You should, or may be required by law to, hire an installer to connect the AC side of it.
Do not get fooled by the build your own scams on the web. Most of them don’t work, and those that do are not allowed to be connected to a home. You must get UL listed panels and inverter.
You can see some residential packages here, http://www.altestore.com/store/Kits-and-Package-Deals/Grid-Tied-Systems/Alt-E-Designed-Grid-Tie-Packages/c1087/.
To determine the size of the system you need, go to a grid-tied calculator like http://www.altestore.com/store/calculators/on_grid_calculator/.
Depending on your location, the size of your home and cooling capacity of your central A/C unit it might be hard to covert 100% of the power use of your central A/C to solar. Not to mention very expensive.
Now if you have a 2,500 sq-ft house and use a 3 ton standard A/C unit at 16 EER it could draw as much as 25amps at 220v you would need about 5.5KW of PV plus a large battery bank to handle surges at (start up, blower, ect.) 250w PV panels are about $1000 each and figure about 2x the PV costs for batteries, inverter, installation, wiring, ect. You can see how this gets expensive quickly.
Living in different part of the US may require even more PV panels. Plus, you will need to put the PV panels on a tracking system (a mount that tilts the panels to be perfect aligned with the sun’s path) There are always cloudy days, so if the humidity is not too bad you can hopefully shut the A/C off and credit your electric bill by turning your electric meter backwards.
A better option might be to sell your central A/C and replace it with a heat pump system. A heat pump uses the ground temperature to cool and heat. It may seem more complex but is rather simple can be far less expensive than a full blown PV system. The heat pump can run 24/7 cooling or heating as needed and can provide 4 times the amount of energy they consumes.
Dept of Energy Heat Pump information
http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/space_heating_cooling/index.cfm/mytopic=12610
Hope that answers some of your questions!
A small one to charge your cell phone is $10
One to keep a large house supplied with power, including all the associated equipment can be more than $50000
So the answer is “it depends”
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