Rob on the Road: Solar Power Impact – KVIE
Posted by admin on Jun 30, 2011
What does a NASA supply company and the state’s largest solar panel array have in common? Explore with Rob on the Road. For more visit http://www.kvie.org./robontheroad
Duration : 0:4:20
Dow Solar NA – The Power of Solar
Posted by admin on Jun 30, 2011
The Dow Powerhouse Solar shingles are generating electricity for the InvisionZero Home! During a sunny day, we are feeding power back into the grid. Imagine living in a home with zero energy cost…Invision Zero.
Duration : 0:1:16
Energy Matters Medium Scale And Commercial Solar Power Showcase
Posted by admin on Jun 30, 2011
View time lapse video of some of the community and commercial solar power installations the Energy Matters team has performed around Australia. Learn more about our Medium Scale Projects services here: http://www.energymatters.com.au/renewable-energy/solar-power/commercial/medium-scale-solar.php
Duration : 0:3:3
Low cost Solar Water Purifier
Posted by admin on Jun 30, 2011
This low cost water purifier uses the Solar energy which is available abundantly in India and it is free.
Te cost of making this purifier is about $ 60-75 with easily available material. There is one critical component the evacuated tube…which is available from Solar water heating companies.
In bangalore we got it for $18…we have a source in Pondicherry where it is available for $6 but has to be purchased in bulk.
Icarus design (www.icarus.co.in), a leading Industrial Design firm, based in Bangalore India, worked with NID ( Kunal singh) (www.nid.edu) and Aurore (http://www.auroville.com/aurore/) to develop a low cost solar water heater.
The initial prototypes produced only a few drops a day…after improving on these prototypes we have been able to produce almost 8 litres of distilled water on a sunny day in Bangalore.
We feel that this is sufficient to meet the drinking needs of a normal family of four members.
Though there are concerns on health benefits, drinking distilled water….after a preliminary research on the internet i understand that distilled water is in fact good for health.
Icarus design offers services in Industrial Design, Branding and Structural packaging.
Duration : 0:3:31
Should I get a solar power system or wind turbine to reduce my electrical bill?
Posted by admin on Jun 29, 2011
I live in west Texas where wind turbines are huge so I am considering either a personal wind turbine or solar system to reduce my electricity bill. The power company says we use 4000kw per month. Which system is best and what model should I consider
It depends on which natural energy you get more of. If you live in a windy zone (average 12mph or better winds and long duration)that has consistent winds and you don’t have a lot of trees around ( big open hilly rolling fields are some of the best sites for windmills) , wind power is much better at being able to generate more power with less cost.
But if your area is low wind and hampered by lots of buildings houses and trees around, the cost you would have to spend on getting a tower high enough to access the stabler higher winds would make it prohibitive. Windpower is better from a grid standpoint as you can run a AC generator that synchronizes with the electric companies power so you don’t need batteries or inverters and if you generate more power than you consume, you can sell the power back to the utilities (wholesale rates)
Solar power is best used for heat production rather than electricity . If you are using 4000 kwh a month it sounds like you are an all electric house. Thats a lot of electricity. So if your dryer, hot water heater are electric then solar is the cheapest option for making hot water for your hot water heater and also solar hot air can store its heat in large underground rocks tanks and then the hot air can be piped to either heat your house in the winter or to be piped thru your dryer for clothes.
With 4000 kwh of use , you need some major solar or wind systems. First thing to do is figure out how to conserve some power so you don’t need such big systems. Use ALL compact fluorescent lights or LED lights. They save power two ways, use about 1/6 of the power of regular bulbs , and by producing less heat, saves a lot on your A/C bill. Your air conditioner removes 12,000 BTU’s of heat per ton of air conditioning. There is about 3400 BTU of heat in a Kwh of electricity. So if you are running TV’s , lights, computers, rechargers etc, all those items can produce several thousand BTU’s of heat each day which your A/C has to remove in addition to outside heat.
It is probably most economical to study your use pattern and use a combo of both. Wind for electrical needs and solar heaters for hot air or hot water. But first, lower your consumption, it is the cheapest option.
I don’t own a single incandescent bulb in my house, inside or out. All lights are LED’s and CFL’s. No TV’s larger than 25 inch and power consumption is less than 100 watts.High efficiency refrigerator with extra thick foam andfreezer on bottom. I dry my clothes on a close line, which saves a lot of power, and never breaks down and makes clothes last longer. I put timers on all power strips. I had a timer on my water heater (before I went solar) that only came on 2 hours a day ( I warned family what time to take showers if they wanted hot water.)
I even mounted my refrigerator to an outside wall with louvers in the wall that open in winter to allow cold outside air to cool the refrigerator and in the summer all the heat from compression is blown outside instead of in the house…again.. I don’t want to fight the air conditioner. And I use a geothermal heatpump with woodburner backup.
I generally get 350 kwh in the summer and maybe 700 kwh in the winter.
Gemasolar – The World’s First Baseload (24/7) Solar Power Plant
Posted by admin on Jun 29, 2011
This video by “Solar Trillions” author Tony Seba shows Gemasolar, the world’s first commercial utility-scale solar power plant.
Gemasolar is a 19.9-MW plant with a 15-hour ‘battery’. Gemasolar’s expected production is 110,000 MWh per year—or about enough to fully power 25,000 households. Gemasolar to produce electricity about 6,400 hours per year – a capacity factor of 75%. Gemasolar’s power tower has a height of 140 meters (459.3 feet.)
The receiver on top of the tower is like a radiator that is heated to a temperature of about 565 degrees Celsius (1,050 degrees Farenheit) by the sunlight reflected by 2,650 heliostats with a total reflective surface of about 300,000 square meters (3.32 million square feet.)
http://www.tonyseba.com
Duration : 0:2:37
Solar Energy
Posted by admin on Jun 29, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Do you want to save thousands off the cost of solar panels?
Of course you do!
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
You can now make solar panels at home! You have probably read about it or seen it on TV, but have you tried it yourself?
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
If you are interested in learning exactly how to generate power and reduce your bill then this is the perfect resource for you! With the ever increasing costs of living, there is no better time than right now to stop throwing money out the window and start generating our own electricity.
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Over the last few years I have figured out how to significantly reduce the cost of solar panels making it more affordable for the average home owner just like you.
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Now you can build a single panel or a complete array of panels to power your home for a fraction of retail cost.
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
I’m going to be your “solar mentor” and show you step-by-step how to make a solar panel. I’ll also teach you my other secrets to renewable energy in an easy to follow format.
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Did you know? A basic solar installation from a retailer can take 30 years to pay back and cost you well over $20,000?
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Duration : 0:6:47
FUTURE FORECAST 2GO SOLAR ENERGY
Posted by admin on Jun 28, 2011
Photovoltaic solar cells have a “split” personality in that, they can be workable in stationary deployments or in high rpm spinning gyroscopic applications.
Solar cells are now being employed in high speed (rpm)
hybrid applications. When you sail & skip a stone across a lake edgewise, and it bounces and “walks on water” because it is spinning, it is a combination of torque and gyroscopic precession. Frisbees are a well understood wing, and sail remarkably far with the add-on solar pv spin. Consider the large size of a discus, with a large mass and weight, it still rotates and “flies” to new records each Olympics. Another example of rotational spin is the boomerang.
This video of solar energy innovative power can move cars, bikes, motorcycles, buses, trains, and most other agendas,. There is a rich field in the world for harvesting solar energy in high rotation wheels. This design generates lift by spinning the whole saucer with a combination of helicopter and frisbee principles. This also becomes a energy-storing “FLYWHEEL (energy bank). “Solar energy can make the world go ’round and around! High speed rotating solar cells for sun-power are the subject of this demonstration, that are NOW being seen as a huge improvement over traditional stationary photovoltaic installations. We’re ready to take this new technical advantage as far and as fast as the speed of light! Astronauts can use this rotating cell “fix” to place a power source on Hubble. USING SUNLIGHT IS THE MOST LIKELY INTERSTELLAR MEANS FOR PROPULSION TO TRAVEL THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE. It is the fuel that is available and capable of light speeds. To approach the speed of light one needs be pushed and accelerated by light. Let’s add to the list of photovoltaic agendas on land and in space and include high rpm rotating PV solar devices, the hallmark of devonshirewellsford.com! The coming world society is based on renewable energy folks. Whenever & wherever the sun is shining (in space and on earth!!), it’s the closest thing you will probably see, to a perpetual motion machine! Why limit the opportunities to explore the advances presented by emc2sunheads and Devonshire Wellsford, Corporation?? This clown face frisbee underside, for our friends, is also a solar photovoltaic spinning disc. The flip-side of this clown face is a spinning solar “top” wheel photovoltaic “top”! This is a frisbee-like disc with a spinning “elbow joint” that spins in sunlight. This demonstrates a ground floor opportunity for a solar shift of rotating “p.v. ” cells in manufacturing to take advantage of our solar bodies in motion at high rpm’s. Let’s shift gears, and resources
solar manufacturer’s worldwide, and work with Devonshire Wellsford, Corp., to put photovoltaic cells on mobile objects, that power cars, bikes, motorcycles,
rickshaws and all other wheels. We invite Asia, India, Brazil, Europe and other sun loving, energy hungry, peoples to become “improvement oriented” in the solar PV world & not allergic to change! This new green energy
spin is for all bikes to be electric powered with spinning convex hub in-wheel solar propullsion. Put the solar cell right on the spinning wheel and win with the spin! (PP)
We have disclosed our “Rotation of Solar Cells” patent positions.
Devonshire Wellsford, Corp.
When you spin, YOU WIN!
” SPINNING GOLD FROM THE SUN”
Duration : 0:0:31
Solar Energy
Posted by admin on Jun 28, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Do you want to save thousands off the cost of solar panels?
Of course you do!
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
You can now make solar panels at home! You have probably read about it or seen it on TV, but have you tried it yourself?
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
If you are interested in learning exactly how to generate power and reduce your bill then this is the perfect resource for you! With the ever increasing costs of living, there is no better time than right now to stop throwing money out the window and start generating our own electricity.
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Over the last few years I have figured out how to significantly reduce the cost of solar panels making it more affordable for the average home owner just like you.
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Now you can build a single panel or a complete array of panels to power your home for a fraction of retail cost.
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
I’m going to be your “solar mentor” and show you step-by-step how to make a solar panel. I’ll also teach you my other secrets to renewable energy in an easy to follow format.
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Did you know? A basic solar installation from a retailer can take 30 years to pay back and cost you well over $20,000?
http://tinyurl.com/3blyzsf
Duration : 0:6:47
Home Made Energy | Solar Energy For Homes
Posted by admin on Jun 28, 2011
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Duration : 0:2:52