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 Decathlon

These students have built a completely solar powered house.

ESolar's First Solar Power Tower Operational!

This video from the echo geek breaks down what the solar power tower is and what it does. The first solar tower became operational Oct. 5 2009 In Lancaster California by Esolar.

Solar Energy Breakthrough

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

Solar Panels On The Moon?

I caught the end of an episode of "Naked Science" last night about the moon. What I found interesting is that they were talking about using machines to create solar panels right there on its surface. I forget how many miles it would take but they said they could power the entire worlds energy source we use everyday by doing this. Another interesting thing was that they could use radio or some sort of radar to send the energy to the earths surface and receive 80% of the solar power energy. They are hoping to have this in effect by 2020, that would be a great way to use the moon since it appears unoccupied. I tried to find the video on you tube so I could watch it for more facts but was unable to find it, if you come across this video "Inhabiting the moon" (I Think its called), I would say its a must watch.

Todays Solar

Various electronic equipment that is powered by the sun. Also some water powered items as well.
The thing that I liked the most is being able to turn on or off your lights or turn your air conditioner or furnace up and down all by using your cell phone! Simply amazing to me...

3 minutes 59 seconds

Solar Power Break-Through

This solar power break through can produce up to 6 kw breaking down the cost of using solar power all most 90 %.
Sir Charls Shults shows you how to save $54,000 on solar panels by making your own out of tv screens.

2:45

Solar Energy

Short video on solar power.

Do not just Reflect, Recycle

Plenty of people like to talk about solar. Even changing things for the better. Unfortunately for people like me, really making a impact is very far from my sense of reality because of my income. Even though I'm trying to do my best, it's really nothing in comparison.
Certain people, for instance "the government" and others could step it up a little more and help this planet out. Solar wise especially.
But every time I turn around, there is a trash bin but not a recycle bin.
Sure I can think when I'm recycling that I'm helping the earth out. But the little I do does not help me sleep at night.
Our children deserve a world better than what we live in right now! More recycling is needed world wide.If this picture is correct? The United States, Canada,South Africa and Australia are doing their part. At least with recycling. It's a start?