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Do It Yourself SolarDo It Yourself SolarThis site is dedicated to the Do It Yourself aspect of solar technology. Currently I am focusing on the construction of a passive solar cabin, but there are many resources for anyone looking to undertake a solar energy project. Articles
Time to Expose an Underhanded Solar Company
2008-06-08 21:05:00 Well folks, this is a first. I’ve never had to publicly call someone out on this site for using underhanded business practices, except for Becky from SiliconSolar , for what I will call a “borderline spam” comment. Today is the day I want you to actually pay attention to what I’m writing here. “Arizona Solar Installers” (http://www.getsolar.com) did ... More About: Company , Time , Expose
Long Needed Update
2008-06-01 20:57:00 Apologies for the infrequent updates lately. Finishing up the school semester and working more are beginning to take their toll. I haven’t really been working on any neat projects lately, just trying to scrounge parts and cash. As far as the PV panel powering the lights in the living room, the “Die Hard” deep cycle marine battery ... More About: Update , Long
The Navy is Jumping On Board
2008-05-01 16:53:00 Found this article on SignOnSanDiego.com: “UNION-TRIBUNE May 1, 2008 The Navy has built five solar carports at local bases as part of a project to reduce the military’s dependence on fossil fuels. San Diego Naval Base at 32nd Street has three; Point Loma Naval Base and Naval Amphibious Base on Coronado each have one. Each carport ... More About: Board , Jumping
DIY Solar Panel (PV) Mount
2008-04-18 17:51:00 I got a 15w panel, a charge controller, and a pretty nice battery as a christmas gift this year, and now that the snow is gone I decided to put it to use powering the couple of compact fluorescent bulbs that we use throughout our part of the old farm house that we live in. The ... More About: Solar , Panel , Mount
Solar/Wind Tax Breaks in NY Without ?Certified? Installers
2008-04-10 15:43:00 I was griping before about having to have some “certified” person install systems to get a tax break. Here is something I just ran across in my travels of dsireusa.org: Solar , Wind & Biomass Energy Systems Exemption Here are the requirements: “ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Ownership Requirements: None. Property Location Requirements: None. Property Use Requirements: Property ... More About: Breaks , Certified
Fighting for space for solar panels?
2008-04-10 04:21:00 I was wondering when the day would hit that people would be squabbling over space for their solar panels, or at least unshaded space.. Apparently that day has already arrived. Here is some food for thought from independent.co.uk: “By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Thursday, 10 April 2008 Who wins the prize for environmental correctness ? ... More About: Space , Solar , Fighting , Solar Panels
Cheaper Water Heating
2008-04-09 17:37:00 I ran across some pretty cheap pool heaters: 4′x8′ Enersol solar collector with 15 year warranty $190 from solarcovers.com FAFCO 2′x20′ solar collector with 10 year warranty $135 from poolproducts.com Smarthome.com has a similar 2′x20′ collector with 5 year warranty for $130. They say it has a 40,000 BTU rating, and they also offer a 4′x20′ for $250. ... More About: Water , Heating
Butler Sun Solutions Double-Wall Heat Exchanger
2008-04-03 05:23:00 Just ran across this really cool double wall heat exchanger from Butler Sun Solutions . This is not your normal heat exchanger though, it is made to be installed in an existing water heater. Here is the description from their site: “1. Solar Heat Exchange Wand (Patent Pending) The Butler Sun Solutions Solar Wand allows readily available, standard hot ... More About: Double , Wall
Sierra College gets grant for solar installation training
2008-04-03 00:12:00 If SUNY Canton’s 4-year alternative energy degree (or any others offered by other schools) doesn’t float your boat, you might be interested in this: (From bizjournals.com) Sierra College has been awarded a $470,000 grant to develop a training program for solar panel installers. The California Community College Chancellor’s Office provided the grant for the college to ... More About: Solar , Training , Grant
Solar Powered Hydrogen Fuel Station
2008-04-03 00:08:00 This is really cool. Hopefully more of it will be adopted in the future: (from mercurynews.com) Solar -powered hydrogen fuel station opens despite cutbacks The Associated Press Article Launched: 04/01/2008 11:24:23 AM PDT var requestedWidth = 0; ... More About: Fuel , Hydrogen , Station
Solar Stocks On The Rise
2008-04-02 19:01:00 From Forbes.com, 2hrs ago. Associated Press Opening Glance: Solar Stocks Rise Associated Press 04.02.08, 9:57 AM ET Solar-power stocks rose sharply Wednesday morning, with investors optimistic about the industry’s expansion as a solar-power conference kicked off in Munich, Germany.News from Trina Solar Ltd. (nyse: TSL - ...
Solar Hot Water in the Adirondacks (and some windpower for good measure)
2008-02-24 21:20:00 The girlfriend and I made a trip over to Burlington, VT on Tuesday, and then crossed back over the lake into NY to stay at her sister’s house for the night. On the drive over to Burlington I got some pictures out the window of the car of some of the huge wind turbines they have ... More About: Solar , Water , Good
Designing a Solar Heated Structure (Part Two)
2008-02-12 16:28:00 Alright, I know it has been a while, but here is the second installment of the “Designing a Solar Heated Structure ” series I promised I’d write. As I’ve said before, I am a rank amatuer, and am not claiming to be certified, highly experienced, or anything else. I am merely offering my opinions, and carefully organizing ... More About: Part
BBC Article: ?The pros and cons of solar power?
2008-02-08 17:30:00 I just found this BBC Article called “The pros and cons of solar power” and thought I’d share. “ ... More About: Power , Solar Power , Solar , Cons
Fat Spaniel Technologies - Monitoring for Renewable Energy Systems
2008-01-30 04:14:00 Fat Spaniel Technologies has an online monitoring and reporting service for renewable energy systems. This is really cool. They have a huge list of sites that are monitored, and you can expand each one to get more details. Each site listed has a “simple” and “detail” view. The “Simple” interface shows how many watts are being generated ... More About: Energy , Links , Renewable Energy , Systems
?The Power of The Sun?
2008-01-24 16:31:00 My physics professor let us watch most of a movie called “The Power of The Sun” yesterday in class. I found the website for the movie at the Univerity of California, Santa Barbara’s homepage. It seems the movie is intended for educational use, but nobody said you had to be in school to learn things. Here ... More About: Links
Researchers Make a Substance That Absorbs 99.9% of Light
2008-01-18 22:56:00 Here is a win for us solar heating folks From News.com.au : “Black is the new black in science By Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago January 16, 2008 10:40am US researchers say they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 per cent of light. Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, ... More About: Light , Make
Solar Stocks Regaining Losses
2008-01-17 23:11:00 Just found another one for all of you solar investment buffs; Forbes has an article up today about solar stocks regaining losses “Sector Snap: Solar Stocks Regain Losses Associated Press 01.17.08, 2:01 PM ET NEW YORK - Investors sent solar-power stocks higher on Thursday, seeing the recent sell-off as a buying opportunity for major players. Many solar shares have suffered ...
$1 per watt solar panels
2007-12-21 23:06:00 Found this on Slashdot today: “A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar has shipped its first solar panels ? priced at $1 a watt. That’s the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. While other companies have been focusing their efforts on increasing the efficiency of solar panels, Nanosolar took a different approach. It focused ... More About: Solar , Solar Panels
Solar Space Heater
2007-12-16 17:27:00 Working on the solar space heater design a bit more I came across a program called CoDePro on the University of Wisconsin Madison’s website, which is a collector design program that supposedly makes it easier to design collectors, calculate efficiency curves of the collectors in various conditions, and compare this data to experimental data. I ... More About: Space , Solar
Paypal Donations
2007-12-08 01:01:00 Well folks, first donation was a cool $10 (THANKS!) As soon as the money is transferred (paypal says it will be 4 days) I will get my new hosting set up, and solardiy will be solar powered! Thanks again, I will try to add as much content as possible over the next few days but keep in ... More About: Paypal , Updates , Donations
Solar Investing
2007-12-07 22:55:00 There have been some interesting news articles regarding solar related stock prices in the past few days. I took a look at them and had some thoughts to share. To start: “Solar -product stocks rose Friday as analysts upgraded shares and lifted profit estimates for companies on expectations of more polysilicon supplies and strong demand next year. Investors were ... More About: Investing
Designing a Solar Heated Structure
2007-12-07 01:53:00 Apologies for the stagnation of the Solar Cabin construction. While I lay in waiting for materials and capital, I have been doing lots of design work. As I was running through calculations and doing research, I realized how daunting this might be for many people looking to approach this from a “Do-It-Yourself” standpoint. And from that ... More About: Designing , Structure , Heated , Signing
?Calif. billboard lights message with solar power?
2007-12-06 17:49:00 From xinhuanet.com: “BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Xinhuanet) — Following in the footsteps of billboards in Canada and Africa, a California electricity provider says it installed America’s first solar-powered billboard that makes more electricity than it uses. The billboard — topped off with 20 solar panels — is located at 1000 Brannan St. in San ... More About: Power , Solar Power , Solar , Message , Lights
Paypal Donate
2007-12-04 16:34:00 You may have noticed that a “paypal donate” button has popped up in the upper-right corner of the site.. I am trying to move from my friend’s gracious free hosting, where my welcome is quickly running out, to one of many green web hosts but I need this site to kind of pay for itself until ... More About: Paypal , Donate
Google Solar Panel Project
2007-12-02 19:44:00 Google has a very cool page up detailing their solar panel project at the “Googleplex” http://www.google.com/corporate/solarpane ls/home The site has performance graphs for 24hours, and 7days, and also gives you raw numbers (kilowatt-hours) for the last 24 hours, last 7 days, and since June 18, 2007 when the project began. As of the writing of this article they have ... More About: Google , Solar , Project , Panel
Solar Power Forum
2007-11-30 16:19:00 I’ve been browsing around over at the “Solar Power Forum ” for the past hour or so, and have found some great posts I thought I’d share with you all.. Battery Charging Basics Discussion regarding charging electric cars with PV arrays Are there pros and cons to solar energy? Wiring Inverter to a Step-Up Transformer VERY LARGE Home PV Installation <——– ... More About: Solar Power , Links
Generating Electricity With Heat From the Sun
2007-11-21 23:25:00 I’ve been doing some research while it is rainy out, regarding generating electricity with heat from the sun.. There are lots of ways to generate electricity from heat, but for the most part they don’t seem cost-effective for the do-it-yourselfer to piece together. As far as the actual semiconductor you want to use, from what I have ... More About: Electricity , Heat
Going Beyond the Hype of Green Investing
2007-11-17 05:13:00 I found an excellent article over at http://news.morningstar.com called “Goin g Beyond the Hype of Green Investing ” that should be a good place to start for anyone thinking of “going green” with their investments. If you have some spare money around and were thinking of investing in anything “green,” I would read this article first. The author ...
$135 Million for innovative Solar Technology
More articles from this author:2007-11-17 05:06:00 From: http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com November 16, 2007 Schueco Develops new Thin-Film Modules Press Release from Schuco-USA, L.P. Newington, Conn., November 16 Newington, Conn., Schüco International KG, German parent company of Schüco USA L.P., and German energy giant E.ON AG are jointly investing $135 million to develop new photovoltaic (PV) modules based on thin-film technology for metal and glass ... More About: Technology , Solar , Million , Innovative 1, 2, 3 |
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