My Solar And Wind Power Systems At Home
Posted by admin on Jul 2, 2010
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how close are we to getting solar power cost-effectively?
Posted by admin on Jul 2, 2010
We are already there. It costs less than the average swimming pool, which many middle class families find the money to install. My system will pay for itself in 6-7 years, then I’ll have another 18 years of free electriity, how much more affordable can it be.
Solar Power Home Costs – Innovative Options
Posted by admin on Apr 30, 2010
Solar Power Home Costs have been out of reach for many people, the upfront costs high and financing options have been limited. Additionally, taking on a home equity loan to fund a new solar project was a gamble if you didn’t stay in the home long enough to pay off the loan. While an increase in property value as a results of solar energy would soften the financial hit, there is no guarantee that it would cover your investment. These limitations have not gone unnoticed by the solar industry, solar companies and government agencies interested in expanding renewable energy.
Leasing/Renting Options
Some solar companies offer a leasing/renting option so your solar power home costs are manageable. They can supply your home with solar power with no upfront fees. You lock in lower electric rates and you are no longer dependent on fossil fuels. Your fixed monthly fees are usually lower than your current electric bills from the start and since they are fixed, as electric bills raise your savings increase.
The companies will size, install and maintain your system. If your system does not operate as expected, they will make the adjustments. This is an option that makes it easy to transition to solar energy and with no issues. If possible, compare several leasing options; each company has a different approach.
Power Purchase Agreements
Power Purchase Agreements are typically a vehicle used by businesses, but some solar companies offer this option to homeowners. These agreements operate much as leasing agreements with no upfront fees and maintenance.
Innovative Loan Product
PACE (Property-Assessed Clean Energy) financing allows a property owner to acquire a loan from a city or municipality to finance a renewable energy project. It is paid back through a property tax assessment and no upfront payments are required. You then repay the loan in fixed payments over 20 years as part of your property tax bill. So the cost of your solar energy project stays with your home should you sell it before the loan is paid off. You can also deduct the interest component of the solar financing tax just as you would a home equity line or home mortgage and take advantage of the 30% solar energy tax credit.
PACE programs enable local governments to finance renewable energy and energy efficient projects on private property, including residential, commercial and industrial properties. It’s a voluntary program and you only pay the additional annual special tax if you apply and install a solar energy project. This is a relatively new program and is not available in all areas yet.
If solar power home costs have been your biggest hurdle to transitioning to solar energy, leasing or the PACE financing program may by your answer. Explore these two options and evaluate if now is time to go solar.
Solar Energy Resources to Help You Go Green
Posted by admin on Apr 26, 2010
We’ve scoured all the solar energy resources for you and included some useful links. Since saving money is important to most people, let’s start with where you get government incentives to go green.
Currently, tax incentives are being offered by most states, federal government, local communities and electric companies. Even installing more efficient electrical appliances will earn you some kind of credit. A more energy-efficient refrigerator or washing machine may be eligible for a credit. Some manufacturers have a new label that helps consumers quickly identify eligible appliances. Many of the available tax credits are not available for do-it-yourself projects. Collection panels and some appliances must be installed by licensed contractors in order to qualify for the credit. Before you buy, make sure the product you are considering is eligible.
Incentives and grants are being offered by the Canadian government as well. So if you live in North America, it pays to go green. Governments across the globe are interested in renewable energy and are offering incentives to residents and businesses to make the switch.
Advantage Of An Older Home
In urban areas with older homes, there are more incentives. Some local governments are offering grants for remodeling older homes to make them use less electricity. The key to getting one of these grants is to apply early. Find out when your local government will start taking applications and apply the first day. Some communities have run out of money before the end of the first day.
Most people want to know when their efforts will start paying for themselves. You should start seeing lower utility bills right away. Depending on how much you spend initially, you should recover your investment within four to eight years according to estimates by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
Remodeling Your Home
For homeowners interested in remodeling, the best source of information is a contractor in your local area. He or she will be familiar with the incentives that are currently available, as well as the feasibility of going “all-solar” in your area. Some of the things to consider include the number of tall trees or buildings that will interfere with your access to the power of the sun.
Free brochures and other solar energy resources are available from manufactures of solar-powered water heaters and photovoltaic panels. There are dozens of different manufacturers and the industry is continuously growing. Your sources of information continue to grow as well. Pay close atention to the energy efficiency rating on each solar panel, small differences add up as you add numerous panels to your roof.
Make use of the solar energy resources available, we’ve included some useful links below and learn about the benefits for you, your family and future generations. With the cost of solar panels dropping and the incentives available, now may be the time to add solar energy to your home.
Database of State Incentives for renewables and efficiency,
Solar Power Cost
Posted by admin on Apr 7, 2010
Solar power cost has so many variables it’s difficult to quickly and easily put a number on your needs. Yet, the question on everyone’s mind that is even remotely considering solar power is “What is it going to cost?”
Get the Calculator
The first place to start is by putting a number on your current energy consumption. Your energy bill will have your monthly kilowatts used, this is roughly what you will need to produce. I say roughly because you will notice that some months you will use more and other months less. To have solar power supply all your energy needs you need to focus on your highest kilowatt month.
A Step Worth Big Dividends
We are now at the point where you can significantly reduce the cost of your solar installation by reducing your current energy consumption. Get a home energy audit by a professional. This will cost a few hundred dollars and the recommendations and changes you make to your home will save you thousands. Once you have implemented your energy efficiency recommendations, you will notice your energy usage lessen. This is now your starting point to determine how many panels you will need to create enough energy to run your home. Compared to your first calculation, you have just reduced the number of solar panels you need to purchase.
Making the Right Choice
Determining if solar energy is the best option of if combining technologies would be more cost effective is the next step. In areas where sunshine is prevalent and the cost to heat and cool your home is modest, solar energy is the ideal solution. However, if the cost to heat and cool your home is significant, consider combining technologies such as a geothermal heat pump which will heat and cool your home in addition to solar panels. Or if you are in a situation where wind energy is an option, solar and wind make are a good combination.
How many panels you will need depends on the efficiency of the panel, the number of hours of direct sunlight that hits them and how many kilowatts you need to produce. Each solar panel has a different efficiency rating, but what seems like insignificant difference can have an impact when multiplied over a number of panels and the amount of time each panel is operating at maximum efficiency. Choosing the right panel and understanding the differences between manufacturers is homework with a big return. To make it possible for people to transition to solar, some solar companies are offering financing and renting/leasing options.
Free Money
Federal, state and local governments are offering tax incentives and rebates. Utility companies are also offering some rebates. Make sure the product you are interested in qualifies for the most “free money”. In some states, the savings are up to 70% of the cost of the panels.
We’ve talked about how to start evaluating your solar power cost by knowing how much energy you use today, what you need to do to reduce your energy consumption and making sure that solar energy is the most efficient energy solution for your area. You know about choosing the most efficient panel and to check the differences between manufacturers and finally how to grab the most “free money”. What’s left?
Energy Independence
Once your system is installed, all the energy you produce for the next 20-30 years is without additional cost to you. That savings can be applied to the cost of your solar system and you’ll still have some left over. The warranty on solar panels are between 20-30 years, with little or no maintenance except for additional cleaning to maintain maximum efficiency. Your property value will increase and your home will be more marketable if you choose to sell. Because it’s renewable energy, you won’t see an increase in property taxes.
It’s up to you, are you ready to transition to solar power?
DIY Solar Water Heater Innovation Volume 3
Posted by admin on Feb 4, 2012
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Our effort to make even more illustrative VIDEO is to make majority of the people simply understand the innovative and highly affordable Solar Water Heater and make them learn the simplest way to store the heat energy of the sun for everyday use in any part of the world, where there is at least few hours of Sunshine.
Everyone knows if one puts anything under the sun, it starts getting hot slowly irrespective of the ambient temperature. It can be freezing cold or extremely hot, the free energy of the sun goes wasted unless it is tapped and stored.
The 25 degree inclination of the absorber panel helps the water rise to the barrel by its self and this system works as full passive system, where as the flat black pipe collector has a limited use.
The distinction of this innovative Solar Water Heater and the rest of the solar water heater lie in the fact that it requires a very little technical skill and can be assembled by almost everyone even in the remotest part of the world.
The polythelene black HDPE pipe being lighter can be transported very easily, and the Plastic Barrel a light weight item too. The absorber base can be made with cement mortar also if required.
Similarly with simplicity and economy for thermal gain of more than 35 degree Celsius it can also create a big avenue for power generations through closed cycle engines.
This economic and light weight HDPE solar can be installed in and around the trekking routes of Annapurna and Everest trek trail, and thousands of tourists can enjoy the hot solar shower easily without destroying the Firewood of that region, which in turn helps to retain the green, a very suitable alternative to enhance the beauty of the nature.
This Video is further elaboration on the entry to GE Challenge ecomagination 2011 submission video “Powering Your Home”, worldwide competition for possible collaboration and funding from GE for a huge sum for investment around the globe.
Special thanks for music composition and assisting me in Jesu the joy of man’s desiring by Bach to DAkshobya
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N.M. Prison Slated to Get Solar Power
Posted by admin on Feb 4, 2012
ALAMOGORDO — A New Mexico county jail may be getting solar power. The Alamogordo Daily News reports that Otero County Commission recently approved the lease of 25 acres of county land …
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homemade electric plywood boat with electric drill total costs $70
Posted by admin on Feb 4, 2012
this is a video showing you how i made my electric plywood boat and a litle test run maybe i will put an solar panel on it. i will make more video’s about my boat when the ice is melted
the sheet of plywood cost me about $30
the 6 one by one’s cost me $20 (you only need 5)
the 200 stainless steel srews cost me $10
the silicone caulk cost me $6
total costs $66
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Cash flow. Solar costs less than nuclear.
Posted by admin on Feb 3, 2012
Buy an acre of raw land, near power lines. Install 100 solar panels.
Start a solar farm.
It is a smart way to make a $$ million.
Sell solar energy onto the grid.
This is the age of the Solar gold. Solar gushers.
More millionaires will be made on Solar Farms, in the next 5 years, than in any other field.
Solar panels last 40 years.
The cost of the 100 panels is recovered in 3 years.
After 3 years is is all cash flow.
My voice is so small.
How can one person save the world from nuclear pollution.
When will the world really see the sun?
China Syndrome will probably happen at San Luis Obispo in 2012.
Are you ready for the next big nuclear meltdown along the coast?
Carbon emissions cerficates can be traded or used as international credit.
Those who emit over their permited volumes may purchase “emission rights” from others who emit less than their allocated maximum.
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) allows companies to exceed safe and reasonable limits, by buying themselves out of their own CO2 limits.
If every country fulfills its obligations, there is no trade in certificates.
However is another country pollutes beyonds what is safe, they can buy a certificate.
Still, the pollution level grows.
It was clear from the outset that this “Zero Sum Game” of minimual obligations would lead nowhere and therefore Hermann Scheer voted against it. And lead a movement against it.
It was based on the guidelines for implementing the obligations of Kyoto Protocols with the European Union.
Our air is not for sale.
Carbon trading slows down the necessary and an immediate need for transition to emission free energy supply, of solar & renewables, rather than speeding it up by allowing polluters to buy credits.
Advocates of carbon trading praise it as the most effective climate protection measure.
Indeed, economists, businesses and pliticians have all raised their voices to call for the
abolition of any other political instrument, such as FEED IN TARIFFS, which propelled Germany to become the greenist nation in the world, with the most solar panels and renewable energy.
Many environmental organizations like WWF, Greenpeace, justify their support for “flexible instruments” by arguing that they represent the only steps that can be agreed upon at world climate conferences of all countries.
We are all asked to engage with this idea for the next step — the Kyoto II agreement for 2012.
The study “Carbon Trading – Why it fails”, by the Dag Hammaskhold Foundation, proves the idea is bankrupt and will not work as well as Feed In Tariffs.
If one country invests in solar, wind & renewables, it “allows” rich, dirty nations to exceed their carbon cap & pollute.
They just buy credits for CO2.
But CO2 is not the only problem. Massive amounts of heat come from cooling every nuclear reactor & destroy the oceans.
Nations are not taxed for that pollution, because it is not an obvious CO2 release.
But any heat added to the atmosphere makes the world climate crisis worse.
Efforts by nations to reach for 100% renewable energy are not given credit for the solutions they offer.
Solutions that are real.
The conceptual trap laid by the world climate confereances is disguising the problem.
Germany is the only nation actually on a valid course to ending nuclear power pollution by paying home owners 2X the market rate for electricity made from solar, wind, Geo thermal or hydro.
As long as only one nation is working to stop the climate crisis,
as long as other nations do not follow Germany best policy example, the environment is doomed.
The children of the rich & poor alike will die from air pollution.
Every person on earth now has the power to help stop global warming, by installing even just 10 solar panels on their home or farm.
Ask not what your government can do for you.
Ask what you can do to save the environment.
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CSP Technologies Compete With PV
Posted by admin on Feb 2, 2012
NEW YORK, NY– – The Concentrating Solar Power market will rise again in 2012 and in the next five years, according to new research from SBI Energy. Emerging from an enforced hiatus by PV solar technologies, …
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