Solar Power Water Heating

Something you don't hear enough about is solar water heaters. It can heat your pool to all your house water. And it is ran a little different then using solar panels.

Solar power water heaters are more of a direct approach to the sun basically it is ran to tubing that is in direct contact with the sun where the water is heated and filtered back to your system.

This is all so the easiest and cheapest self set up for solar, a lot of people are making these set ups at home for very little cost.

Here is a video on a good set up for the heating the water.



This should be set up somewhere on top of your house or where it gets a lot of sun.


Now that you have got the heating water system, you need to have it run to you hot water pipes. You all so would want a instantiated water tank to store and use. In this next video is gives you a demonstration on how this works


I all so recommend water sealing and insulating all the pipes going to and from your solar water system.

Grid Tie Inverters

Grid tie converters take your solar energy and converts it to match the energy that is being used in your house(DC to AC). It all so can feed energy back into the the electric company and will actually lower your meter but you may want to cheek local laws for your areas on this subject. Using a grid tie converter can save you the hassle of having an electrician come in to rewire every thing to match what your solar power is bringing in. One drawback is that if you loss power from the electric company the converter will shut down but if you have back up batteries charged this can hold you through this time lets say at night or a cloudy day when your not getting enough energy from your solar system. I recommend you keep track of the waits that you are using in your household before investing in a converter. While looking on ebay I found a 1000 Watt grid-tie inverter...Mppt Tracking for $1,189.00.
Here is a very informative video on grid tie inverters and what they do and how they work.


GRID TIE INVERTER SOLAR POWER EASY SOLAR SOLUTION POWER INVERTERS


Well I like the fact in the video that he demonstrated running the grid tie converter but to bad it was a cloudy day I would like to have seen it run directly off his solar panels instead of car batteries.

Solar Energy Breakthrough

Michael Fulton a NASA worker is know working on solar breakthroughs for the planet.

DIY Solar Panel System Cost

Ever wonder how much it will cost you to go solar? Well here a costumer that is telling you exactly what it cost him to take the step into the future of solar power.

SOLAR TRAINING DIY SOLAR PANEL PV PHOTOVOLTAIC HARBOR FREIGHT SOLAR ENERGY SOLAR PANEL KITS

Video of solar panels, what they cost on ebay, and what they can do.



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Why Not To Over Install

If your planing on taking the step into solar electric power you might want to figure out how far you want to go. Since you are connected to the grid, when your panels produce too much, the extras are fed back to the electric company. Now there are some states that pay you for the extras, depending on of course the amount you might use everyday. In California you can receive credit up to the zero mark. This is a decision made that varies from State to State. If the Government is in agreement over 51% against State, that could easily be overridden. So you might have to check accordingly on where you live. There is the option of not connecting to the electric company at all. This would be a battery backup system, but I've heard that this is a hassle on the maintenance involved. So you should figure out how much energy you use or are going to use and base how much solar energy power you should invest in.

Energy Waisted That Could Be Used

The sidewalks were recently fixed by our house. That got me thinking... Maybe they could come up with sidewalks that were solar powered?
With the technology we have now I know we can make them. Start with thick plastic see through yet rough enough so there is still some traction, that protect the solar panels underneath.
The roads would be next after it was perfected of course.
There are always smaller ways that maybe we could start with. Like pool covers if there isn't that already? Skateboards, decks, fences, even the top of every building around. All these things have energy, but aren't harnessed. This energy can then help your house or anything else you want. A solar universal plug if you will.

Unbelievable Patented Technology - Video

Another alternet fuel and its water..




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For the original Water Powered Car check out this post!

The Wave Of The Future

The topic of Solar Power is in more conversations these days than ever before. Countries around the world have began developing many different uses for solar power for many reasons. The main one being that our world is changing for the worse. Humans may be the ones to blame or at least, that's what I think. The real question is ... "How can we use Solar Energy more effectively to turn this planet of ours around?"

The first idea that made a lot of sense was Solar Siding(hence the name of the site) and Solar windows to go along with it.

Imagine generating energy from your house everyday, it is possible and it is our goal to find out how... You will be able to possibly buy solar siding from us in the near future!

Let's hope so. Or the world as we know will be gone someday. It may be sooner than you think...

I think with more ideas like these we will be back on the right track.