A video of my small solar project at home. It works well and im pleased with it. I am prepared for a hurricane, when power goes, i will have lights.
Filed under Solar Power by on Aug 28th, 2010. 25 Comments. 
Let the sun charge your cell phone. [ www.chinavasion.com ] Why is it that cell phones can get emergency power supplies and have solar panels to get them going again, after all bigger gadgets, like laptops need emergency power booster power too. [ www.chinavasion.com ] Who would like this: Travelers, business travelers and people interested in alternative energy sources to power their gadgets. What eBay keywords can I use: Solar, solar power, solar energy, solar panels, solar powered , solar charger, solar battery, solar electricity, solar collector, solar technology, renewable energy, alternative energy There has been a veritable sun burst of solar technology on the market as of late. Almost every electronics company in the solar system has come out with some kind of emergency power up/ solar charger of some sort. Unfortunatly most of the solar panels on the market are rather undercharged and will only handle a measly MP4 player or a easy-to-charge Cell phone. If your notebook went down on the road and you needed an emergency power up, then you were pretty much stuck. Well the wholesale China electronics manufacturers may have come up with something to solve that problem. The high capacity solar charger battery has the power to handle a power up for most laptops and larger devices. With a capacity of 74W/h you’re going to be able to get your notebook battery from zero charge to full in just a couple of hours giving you a bit more life when you’re on the road. This solar …
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SOLAR REVOLUTION – Solar Paint Ted Sargent is a pioneer in solar science. He’s working on solar technology that could literally be woven into every aspect of daily life, from our clothes to our roads, using what is known as a spray-on solar cell. The implications for our energy systems are profound. As Ted says, “Solar energy is not just an exciting science problem, but an incredibly important human problem.” Ted is working on solar nanotechnology with the potential to make solar energy very cheap and allow society to collect it on a huge scale. Currently, solar technology costs more to build and install than most people are willing to pay. Solar panels, for example, the technology most commonly associated with solar energy, are installed on your rooftop. The cost of collecting one kilowatt per hour of solar energy (about a third of the electricity an average household uses on any given day) is about $11000. Not only are panels expensive to install, they capture only the visible portion of the sun’s rays so they work only on sunny days. Ted’s focus is the infrared portion of the sun’s rays which accounts for more than half of all solar energy. What’s more, infrared energy is available to us even in cloudy weather. A quantum dot is a semiconductor nanostructure that confines the motion of conduction band electrons, valence band holes, or excitons (bound pairs of conduction band electrons and valence band holes) in all three spatial directions. The confinement can be due to …
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Printable plastic solar cells will bring solar power to the mainstream at $0.10 per watt. Light weight, flexiblity and high efficiency are the traits of this new breed of solar power. Meanwhile old school large scale solar powered generators continue to work in other part of the world.
Filed under Solar Power by on Aug 25th, 2010. 17 Comments.
short video describing a small solar power system that i set up at my house. it consists of twelve 1 amp solar panels (15 watts each for a total of 180 watts of power – per hour). i use it to run all lights (CFL’s), fans, tv’s, and stereos in the house. also the microwave, coffee maker, blender, can opener, sandwich grill, toaster, vacuum, computer and anything else i can think of. run time for lights/fans only is approx 8 hours. add in vacuuming, microwaving or toaster along with lights, tv and the fans and the run time is reduced to 4-5 hours a day. i bought solar panels, inverter (1000 watt) and killowatt meter at Harbor Freight tools, the batteries (deep cycle) from walmart and the battery cables from checker auto. total cost was about $1200 to $1300
Filed under Solar Power by on Aug 24th, 2010. 25 Comments.
