Home Solar Power

Solar energy presents a major advantage to the environment and to the consumer alike in many cases. Solar energy is evidently fully renewable and wholly clean for the environment. As the world becomes more and more highly populated and more people want more power, renewable energy sources become critical.

Obviously, to a degree, it does depend on where you live. There is not a great deal of pointing getting a solar energy plant at your home if you do not get an ample quantity of sunlight. However, places which do not get an adequate enough quantity of sunlight are few and far between, so you want to do your research before removing it out.

In the event that you want to partly power your home with home solar power, then there are lots of options offered to you. In the event that money is of a major concern, then you may well wish to contemplate shopping for one of the DIY kits. These are becoming relatively popular and they are not as difficult to get to grips with as you might think. In fact, you could even find the process somewhat enjoyable.

In this respect, you ought to be able to cut your electricity bills very significantly, so paying money for solar panels can be an awfully good investment in the longer term even if they do cost quite a lot to buy up front. Nevertheless, if you’re interested in saving money in the longer term basis, they can be very good.

A solar panel kit does cost quite a lot of money however. In the event that money is one of your chief concerns, then you might want to think about it do it yourself kit. Building your own solar panels is nothing like as tricky as it might seem. You can uncover loads of guides on the Internet together with videos which will walk you through the process.

This is a great idea if you are more DIY orientated, as well as wanting to save money. You get the best of both worlds, because you will get a have something completely customised and ideal for your circumstances and you will get save money as well on your electricity bills.

In some parts of the world, if you make more power than you are actually using, you can even sell it back into the grid and get paid for it. There are a huge number of cases in which a domestic home solar power system can be of great benefit to you financially and economically.

Envirotech Summit has even more information on home solar power for cheaper electricity bills which might be useful to you.

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Introduction

The Efficient Planet guide is not just one book, it’s 3! With 71 pages on how to build a home home solar power system, 51 pages on how to build a home wind turbine, and another 50 pages on how to enjoy efficient living at home, this is one comprehensive set of instructions! It almost hit our #1 spot, over-taking Earth4Energy, but its lack of video instruction put it at #2.

What we like about it:

1 - Comprehensive Instructions

Efficient Planet is by far the most complete and content-rich renewable energy guide available. It has over 175 pages of simple, easy to follow plans and recommendations, and is definitely value for money at a price of $49.97.

2 - Additional free gifts

Efficient planet has a whole host of bonus items for its customers - this includes a 50 page guide on efficient living. Just this guide alone is worth the $49.97. Also included are audio and video interviews with fellow DIYers that have built their own home solar and wind power.

Additional, but irrelevant bonus items included is: ‘Project Wealthy’ - a kit that teaches you everything about running your own efficient home business. And what they call “Undisclosed bonuses”.

3 - Solid plans:

A useful feature of Efficient Planet, is that is has been broken up into 3 separate guides:

The first guide speaks solely on home solar power, with a set of instructions on how to make your solar electric system at home. It also contains information on other home solar power options, such as solar air and water heating, and solar roofing.

The second part provides step-by-step instructions, with diagrams on how to make your own home wind generator. It also goes to talk about the 10 false rumors about wind power, and how to use it effectively at home.

The final part is devoted to showing you how to easily save power at home and thus reduce your power bill. Although we knew most of what it tells you to do, it really complemented the rest of the Efficient Planet series, with the goal of becoming more energy efficient.

Why it is not the best guide:

1: Lack of video instructions

Initially we thought Efficient Planet is the most complete set of solar and wind power instructions. But we noticed that is has no video tutorial, that show a working system being built in real-time. This make a harder for the average, everyday person to build their own working solar and wind power generator, without getting stuck. Yes, the diagrams did make it easier, but it makes more sense, in this day and age to provide step-by-step video instruction.

2: The same old rehashed information

Efficient Planet seems to be the same old rehashed information. Diy energy guides are appearing all over the place these days, and this guide does not seem to be any different to rest. However, with that being said, where Efficient Planet excels is that gives it customers a number of free extras, that make it better value for money as compared to Homemade Energy or Homemade Power Plant.

Overall Rating:

Efficient Planet provides some of the most complete, and useful step-by-step instructions on making your own renewable energy and saving power at home. Yes, you will eventually build a working solar and wind power system with the plans, but it will take you a little longer than if you used the Earth4Energy guide (which has free video instruction). The free extras make it well worth the $49.97 price, so it comes in 2nd place.

Tim McDonald is an enthusiastic DIYer that has been living off the grid since June 2008. He recommends you Try Earth4Energy for FREE if you are serious about making your own solar and home wind turbine, saving bucket loads of cash on your electricity bill, and living a greener life.

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There is no shortage of evidence that many of the major problems of the world can be blamed on modern technology. Mass production of goods and mass transportation together with the factories and vehicles that enable all this devour the planet’s resources and pollute on an epic scale.

A central issue is that we have been burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil to provide the energy that powers our modern technologies. The fact is that more has now been burned than remains in the ground, and if that isn’t depressing enough, all the fuel that has been burned to date has been relentlessly pumping surplus CO2 into the atmosphere.

So we’re filling up at the Last Chance Gas Station and will soon be running on fumes, waiting for the inevitable breakdown and long walk back. It would be ironic if the final blow was delivered by our own modern transport network in the form of some especially virulent worldwide pandemic.

But how likely is this scenario really and can the blame all be laid at the door of technology? The fact is that this is hardly a first offence - as a species we have a pretty poor record when it comes bad behaviour leading to unfortunate consequences. But every time we’ve somehow managed to survive and emerge stronger.

The point to understand is that humans and technology are inseparable - it’s part of our fundamental makeup. Any time an archaeologist unearths an ancient set of remains and identifies them as human you can be fairly sure that fossilized evidence of the technologies of those times will not be far away.

Since the dawn of human history it seems we have made weapons and tools, worn decorations and clothing, preserved and prepared food, painted and played music. Unique among all other animals we really for our survival not on thick fur or powerful claws, but on our capability to develop and deploy technology.

Early flint spear heads were an improvement on sharp sticks and would later develop into metal heads, then bullets and ultimately into our present weapons of mass destruction. You can equally trace a direct line from this digitally produced information through mass printing, handwritten documents and ultimately back to those first cave paintings. Or take all the complexity of a modern symphony and unravel the trail leading back to simple flutes carved from hollow animal bones.

There has never once been a time when human technological evolution ceased in its quest to adapt and improve. Ironically this is often because the failings of an earlier technology become all too apparent. Our modern sewage systems and clean flushing toilets owe their origins to the success of the steam technology that drove the Industrial Revolution, thereby creating urban crowding and rampant disease from contaminated water supplies.

So we can be assured then that even if technology is indeed to blame for the current sorry state of affairs, it is still the only means we have to fix things again. Reverting back to some “Golden Age” before modern technology is a naive and dangerous idea; the solution lies in developing better eco-technologies (e.g. extend use of the internet and embrace high efficiency solar energy and low power consumption light emitting diodes).

The eco-technologies promise to be orders of magnitude less wasteful and waste creating and also help avoid much of the excessive travel that has become a feature of modern life. But they also offer possibilities to actually improve our lives and widen our horizons. That said, it’s almost certain that in the future we will find out that these technologies themselves fall short of all we hoped for, and what do you suppose we will then do about that?

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All of life here on this planet is made possible by the light and heat from the sun. Without our sun, we would not be here. There is an unlimited supply of home solar power. It has been there for several billion year and should continue for many billion more. It causes absolutely zero pollution and creates no carbon-dioxide greenhouse gases.

The question I put to you is “why are we not all using this free unlimited source of energy?” We have all been spoiled by relatively cheap energy derived from fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas. These are no longer as inexpensive as they once were and the carbon dioxide being release when we burn them in our power stations is undoubtedly leading to climate change.

Free solar energy has a number advantages over conventional fossil fuel sources of energy. The power from our sun is free and unlimited. Our only expense is that of collecting, using and storing this energy. These cost of recovery, whilst still high, are falling as new technology comes on line and it’s now becoming possible to generate much of the power for your own home from alternative energy sources, such as solar and wind power.

There are two main methods for recovering solar energy for the home:

Flat-Plate Hot-Water Collectors: These can allow every home to provide free hot water heated directly by the sun. They are relatively inexpensive to buy and install and have a payback time that makes these an economical prospect in sunnier climes. They are often composed of a number of copper pipes running through an enclosed sealed panel. They are mounted on a south or south-west-facing wall or roof and will provide hot water dring most of the year, even on cloudy days.

Solar Electricity Generators: These are photo voltaic cells which convert sunlight directly into usable electricity. These cells have become the world’s fastest-growing energy technology with production doubling every two years. This increase in manufacturing capacity has caused the prices of these cells to fall to a level that is affordable for use in home home solar power generation.

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