Friday, July 30, 2010

Solar Power - Useful Solar Devices For Your Home

Solar power is one of the cleanest, most renewable forms of energy on our planet. In the last few years, however, technology has not only caught up with this trend but has maximized the way we make solar power. In the earlier days of harnessing this energy, there was this great need to install massive solar panels just so a small house can use the most minimal volume of energy. These days, solar panels are smaller, lighter and more efficient in “harvesting” larger volumes of solar energy. Th

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Solar Power For My Home - The Benefits

Having taken a look at some of the tinkering we've been doing of late, one of our mates asked "I think I want solar power for my home - what are the benefits?". Its a good question if you're looking to convert home to solar power, so what are you really getting yourself in to when looking at making the change from being grid dependent to owning your own agenda.



Need or Necessity?
The first question used to be whether you really need solar power. Solar and wine power are frequently used

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Home Made Energy Review

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When the good lads at Home Made Energy, Bill and Ben Ford, offered to let us take a gander at their own alternative energy product we were all too happy to oblige. If you've taken a look at some of our other reviews you'll see we're coming to terms with what it really takes to get your own power system up and running. Truth be told, its not as easy as some punters make it out to be, but that's one of the reasons we liked giving a Home Made

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Earth 4 Energy Review

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Plenty of people will provide an Earth4Energy review saying the product is great, but few actually tell us why or whether it can really benefit our efforts to take advantage of wind and solar power in the home. For those of us who are prospective buyers of this type of product, often one of the foremost questions we have in our minds is 'will this really give me the information I need to get the job done?'. The reality is, a lot of the online

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Solar Energy Advantages Disadvantages

When most people start weighing up advantages disadvantages of solar energy two of the things they are often really wondering is whether on a costs benefit analysis they are going to come out in front, and whether a solar array is going to make their home look like a failed 5th Grade science project.

Here’s what we’re going to cover today:

We’re going to start off with some bullet points of the pro’s and con’s of solar power;
Then we’ll look at some of the hang-ups people ha

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Build A Solar Panel At Home Step By Step

This is our fifth and most important step in our solar panel tutorial, where we outline a step by step method on how to build a solar panel at home.

Here's a quick checklist of things we should have already completed:

- Determining how many solar panels we'll need;
- Settled on our solar power system design;
- Purchased or found our solar power system components;
- Obtaining all our solar panels materials and tools;

With all that done, we're ready to proceed with our solar panel co

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DIY Solar Panels Materials For Construction

In part 4 of our solar panel tutorial we look at what DIY solar panels materials we will need in addition to the major components outlined in previous steps. This includes both the materials and the tools required to complete the task at hand.

Materials
- PV Cells;
- Timber for our backboard;
- Timber or prefab frame for our sides;
- Plexiglas or quarter inch UV acrylic sheet for our cover;
- PV tinned wire to connect our cells;
- Solder;
- Silicone to attach our cells to the backboa

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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Best Designs For Homemade Solar Cells

Part 2 of our solar power tutorials. Most DIY homemade solar cells follow the same design patterns as their commercial counterparts. When constructing your DIY solar panels for home use there are two generally accepted approaches to cell size, and the linking structure of the individual PV cells within the panel.

1. Solar Panel Size

The typical solar panel contains 36 PV cells, with four rows or strings of 9 cells each. However, if you prefer to use larger panels to minimise the constr

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How Many Solar Panels Do I Need To Power A House?

This is the first step in our Solar Power Tutorials, and most obvious initial step in starting your DIY solar panels for home use project is calculating exactly what your power needs are, and answering the question 'how many solar panels do i need to power a house?'.

Now, if you’re going to be installing a solar power system, it helps to have some understanding of the relationship between power, voltage, currant and resistance, and the principles behind Ohm’s Law. To help, we’ll expla

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Home Made Energy Review

Our rating:

Official Site: Home Made Energy

When the good lads at Home Made Energy, Bill and Ben Ford, offered to let us take a gander at their own alternative energy product we were all too happy to oblige. If you've taken a look at some of our other reviews you'll see we're coming to terms with what it really takes to get your own power system up and running. Truth be told, its not as easy as some punters make it out to be, but that's one of the reasons we liked giving a Home Made

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WSOP 2010 Event Winners

In case you haven't been keeping tabs on the winners of the 2010 WSOP Event Winners, you can find all the details below. This years world series is drawing to a close with the $10,000 No Limit Hold Em Championship underway, with nine days of play culminating with the November Nine, set to resume on the 1st November.

There's been a healthy scattering of pro's amongst the bracelet winners this year, with a notable near miss from Tom Dwan, who narrowly missed out on securing a bracelet and a

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