Building solar panels is a relatively simple matter because solar cells are modular. They are also quite small. Solar cells that are used in residential solar panels is about twice the size of a bar coaster or about four times the size of a playing card. You can fit your hands around one quite easily.
You begin building solar panels by connecting these cells in series and then connecting panels to one another. Then all that is left is to connect the solar panel array to batteries and an... Read Full Story
There has been a lot of people wanting to know how to build solar panels recently. As we’ve all seen in the past couple of years, the price of energy is skyrocketing, especially with oil prices reaching record levels almost every week. This economic pressure has begun to show itself as interest in building solar panels has also increased. To tell you the truth, learning how to build solar panels is not difficult at all. There are two types of solar panels that are commonly used in... Read Full Story
Google Wants to Help America Ditch Fossil Fuels, Go Renewable Despite rampant commercial success, having a stock price of over 700 dollars, the wildly successful top internet search engine, possibly the top free email service, a new cell phone OS, and a constant stream of new services that equate to internet market domination, Google has never seemed quite as evil as some big companies. The company has always preached a strongly altruistic philosophy. Its goal is to "to organize the... Read Full Story
In Part I of this blog on alternative energy sources for the DR, we examined the country's current energy mix and the government's overall targets for increasing the role of renewable sources in that mix. Here in Part II, we look at the prospects for meeting or besting these goals.
Blowing in the Wind
As we noted in our prior blog on the "wind atlas" for the DR, a study co-sponsored by USAID and the US Government's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) concluded that some 1,500... Read Full Story
One day last week at 3:00 am, my 9 month old decided that sleep was not in the cards. Nothing I tried worked. Determined not to be bothered by it, I let her play in her room while I surfed on my laptop. Somehow I ended up on Rush Limbaugh’s website, and started looking around. I had high expectations. I may not agree with much of his views, but I do respect him for having captured the imagination and attention of millions of listeners. I was looking for substance, things to learn, and... Read Full Story
