Solar Power

We are looking at buying a house and renovating it, and were wondering about using solar or wind power to power much of our house. We will have a well, be on a septic system, have a wood burning furnace for heating the house, so we would like to have

Go to canadiantire's web site and search solar panel.


they range from $30 -- $1000

2007-05-08 17:49:39 by melaniecampbell

Please sign the Declaration of Endependence at www.endependence.info/declarat ion . Short and concise explanation of solar photovoltaic systems ...

I want to make a solar power generator for ac use not dc use, how long will it last if iam running a total of 1600 watts ? I was planning on making one with 8 batteries.
thanks
any websites that explain this would be greatly...

The question is not too clear, as solar chargers are in fact d/c power as is the batteries they charge. To get a/c power from the system you will need an "inverter", and they come in various sizes, watts that is.
The amount of...

2008-07-05 17:19:01 by njpaypal

Hi,

I have some questions about solar power, it's for a school project. Thanks for all your help in advance.

What is solar power?

How does it work? (Please be as specific as possible and list...

Solar power refers to the utilisation of the sunlight for meeting our energy needs, which are otherwise met by electricity or coal, oil, gas etc.

There are several ways for utilising solar power:

- photovoltaic...

2007-05-18 21:27:59 by Batman

I live in the basement of a house and would like to run my room on solar power. I have two power strips that run a TV and DVD player, a laptop, printer and two external hard drives and I would need to use a couple floor lamps in the room as well....

Let me just say, the cost would be too much to be worthwhile. It appears you would need at least 750 watts. if you wanted to use the electrical things at night too, the system would have to deliver that much power for the equipment, and more to...

2008-02-22 13:41:33 by D. Christopher

If we focused the sun's energy like a magnifying glass does into the solar panels, would this generate more power at all?

No, it would not. If the magnifying glass is the same area as the solar collectors, then it would be the same amount of energy the solar collectors would be gathering without the magnifying glass.

In a way it would be cheaper,...

2008-07-26 12:22:57 by Nohbdy Ahtall

I'm an engineering student and for an individual hobby-like project i purchased a small solar panel and a small solar motor. I am planning on making a small solar powered toy car. The question i have is: is there a way to connect a control or some...

I assume it is a DC motor. You should have DC voltage coming out of the solar cell (For example 10V). You could use a transistor to switch the voltage on and off, then filter the output with an RC filter. You will have to choose the right RC time...

2009-12-10 09:45:20 by striff