If it happens to be that you are interested about how much energy does solar energy produce, then by all means, take a few moments to look over the following – it will surely greatly increase what you’ve learned about solar technology. What would you say if someone were to offer you a plan which provides you the simple technology for converting solar energy into abundant energy for your home at a cost you can’t afford to pass up – is that possible? Keep reading the following article.

Up until now, installing solar panels to create at least part of your electricity was seen as an undertaking that was out of the reach of most people, however, some thought of it as a long-term goal. Nowadays, people frequently perform Internet searches for how much energy does solar energy produce, which is evidence that interest in solar energy is expanding, and there are many looking for ways to get started in this exciting field.

The latest news in this field is that the time to easily ‘solarize’ your home is here and now and won’t empty the wallet of those who want to start enjoying unlimited power at no-charge (unless someone finds a way to charge for sunshine)! The technology itself is already here for many years, although it remained out of reach for the majority due to the price; so we continued to feel trapped in our relationship with the electric company, paying needless bills and counting our pennies.

Before you continue your research on how much energy does solar energy produce, I want you to know that not so long ago, a respected professional in the field of green technology wants to spread the word about a way for you to build solar panels and a device capable of converting the power of the sun into useable electricity with low-cost and easy-to-find materials and a simple method for assembling them. I realized that there happen to be a large number of people in the u.s. and globally who already enjoy the benefits of solar power, to create abundant solar power for their personal use, and in addition, actually make money by selling their extra power to the electric company. Because it’s such a snap to use, homemade energy production is going to create a much-needed revolution in how we get our energy.

Originally posted 2010-04-24 04:53:19. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

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Originally posted 2010-04-24 17:23:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

I was thinking about building a Wind turbine for my house, but couldn’t find anything about them legal wise. Is there some kind of permit I need? What’s the max height I can build?

Originally posted 2010-04-25 23:50:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

Chronos Consulting has been involved in consulting and recruiting in the sustainable energy field for over a decade. We have been engaged by one of the world’s most dynamic renewable energy companies and has open positions in almost every nation in South and Central America. Here is one example:

Senior Sales Engineer Based: Mexico City.

The Company:

Chronos Consulting’s client is one of the biggest manufacturers and suppliers of technologically advanced products, installations and services in the technology for energy sustainability sector, generating electric energy of renewable origin, essentially based on the promotion and running of wind farms, the manufacture of wind turbines and the providing of advanced services to the technology for energy sustainability sector.

The role:

Reporting to the Area Sales Manager you will be responsible for: • Development and implementation of the sales strategy and objectives in the Mexican market. • Management of relationships with customers, identifying new business opportunities. • Work with marketing Department to drive development and delivery of new products and services to meet customers and improve customer satisfaction. • Contract elaboration, negotiation and implementation. • Internal coordination with Engineering and Services Department to ensure correct project and contract implementation.

The person:

You possess: • Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering. MBA preferred. • At least 5 years of proven experience in sales of industrial equipment, preferably wind turbine generators. • Ideal candidate will be self-starter, with strong planning and organizational skills, excellent communication skills, and strong problem solving mind. • Fluent in Spanish and English In exchange, the ideal candidate will get a permanent contract and receive an excellent retributive package, meanwhile he gets the opportunity to sign on with a solid, rapidly growing company where he will have the chance to build his professional career in an international environment.

Dr Simon Harding

www.chronosconsulting.com

www.coberongreen.com

Originally posted 2010-04-26 05:53:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

Congress gets it wrong on energy! Again
Congress seems intent to pass a regressive energy bill — despite the pleas of their constituents for releif at the pump. The truth is that, short of a moratorium on federal gas taxes, there is very little Congress can do to provide short-term releif at the pump but they could help ensure plentifiul supplies of oil and gas — and thus lower prices — in the future, but instead they seem intent to make our situation worse.
The National Petroleum Council recently released a report http://www.npc.org/7-18_Press_rls-post.pdf painting a fairly bleak picture for the world’s energy supply and demand equation. One way Congress could help would be to remove hurdles to domestic oil production on public lands like ANWR and on the OCS and from non-traditional sources like oil shale and coal to oil. Despite what industry proponents argue, these sources don’t need subsidies or a price floor to get going (but who doesn’t want guaranteed profit if they can get Congress to give it to them), but they do need the government to reduce hurdles to development on public lands — and more importantly, not make the situation worse with new legislative roadblocks or make the investment situation worse by rescinding reasonable standards for the depreciation of new equipment.
In light of high prices and declining domestic production, in the 2005 energy bill Congress sought to encourage new production by expediting the leasing of new oil and gas wells on public lands and off-shore by giving new funding and fast-track authority to the Bureau of Land Management and the Minerals Management Service, while reducing the bureaucratic paperwork requirements in order to ensure that proposals for new production were assessed, and contracts written, in a timely fashion – a statutory deadline for approval was built into the law. In addition, in order to encourage companies to build expensive, new platforms in high risk areas in the hurricane prone gulf of mexico, where dry wells are not uncommon, the government decided to treat oil and gas companies on the same par as renewable energy firms, allowing them to write off or accelerate the depreciation on capital equipment for new investments in production in the Gulf of Mexico.
The new Democratic Congress wants to take all that away. In order to increase revenues to the government to fund their green priorities – none of which will bring much energy online and so help consumers – they wish to end the accelerated depreciation, extend the time federal agencies have to consider new leases and increase the paperwork hurdles. Each of these steps will discourage or slow the development of new oil and gas projects and thus slow (or even halt in some cases) the delivery of new oil and gas resources to the marketplace – high prices will remain high or rise as we become even more dependent on foreign energy supplies. In addition, they want to impose higher fees on new production and, not allow energy companies unwilling to renegotiate leases drawn up under the Clinton Administration to bid on new leases.
When energy prices were low and new domestic production cost more than companies could make, the Clinton administration, in order to encourage continued exploration, wrote off-shore leases that that did not require companies to pay royalties. Now, when prices are high, the government wants to force companies to break their contract, and pay royalties on oil produced in the past. This does nothing to produce new oil, shows government to be an unreliable partner thus giving companies less assurance when dealing with the government that the deals written will be kept, and will likely keep well qualified companies from bidding on new leases. Under this deal, unless qualified companies accede to extortion, they will not be able to get new leases, which means there will be less competition and less production (or higher priced production). Only Congress could think this will help our energy situation. Worst of all, these policies will be most damaging to the poorest of the poor. They amount to a hidden tax on the most vulnerable among us. Families earning more than $50,000 per year spend just 4 percent of their income to cover all energy costs. By comparison, households earning between $10,000 and $25,000 per year spend 13 percent on their income on energy overall, and families earning below $10,000 per year spend as much as 29 percent of their incomes on energy. While the relatively wealthy can afford higher gas prices with little impact on their lifestyles – they will still take vacations, and don’t have to decide between food, medication and fuel – poorer households are beginning to make that trade-off every day. This bill will do nothing to reduce energy prices or produce more energy and it will impose unconscionable new costs on the poorest among us.

Originally posted 2010-04-26 10:13:57. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

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Originally posted 2010-04-26 19:27:34. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

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Originally posted 2010-04-25 22:54:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

Every day, the Earth receives more energy from the sun than mankind uses in a year. Still, solar energy remains a tiny sliver in the global energy mix. Falling prices and better efficiency could change this, but can it happen fast enough?

When it comes to meeting energy needs, humanity has not been able to eliminate the middle man. The energy we use today comes from the sun, but we get it indirectly. Sunrays fed countless generations of plants and organisms millions of years ago, which we now use to burn to produce electricity, heat our homes, and run our cars. Its heat also strikes up the winds that we use to sail ships and run turbines. Despite our dependence on the sun, mankind has still not fully realized the potential of harnessing the sun’s vast energy directly.

Worldwide Importance and Future Trends

Even with steady annual growth, the International Energy Agency says solar energy – combined with wind and geothermal power – still only supplies less than one percent of the world’s energy. In Germany, the global solar market leader, solar supplies around 0.3 percent of national electricity demand; in the United States, it supplies less than 0.1 percent.

The UN’s annual “Global Trends in Sustainable Development” report said that the solar sector attracted 16 percent of the 70 billion U.S. dollars invested in renewable technology in 2006 – behind wind (38 percent) and biofuels (26 percent). According to the World Energy Council, solar water heating market is growing at a rate of around 20 percent a year, and solar PV at 35 percent.

If the costs of solar technology continue to drop, it has a chance to compete with other forms of energy production. In places like sunny California, solar has already reached “grid parity,” which means the costs of producing solar power are now competitive with conventional energy production even without government subsidies. Sinking production costs would allow solar power to eventually join or even replace coal, gas, and oil as a primary energy source by the end of the century, which some experts say is possible.

Global Resources and Producers

The amount of solar energy that reaches the Earth’s surface every 20 days exceeds the energy trapped up in all of the planet’s coal, oil, and natural gas reserves. The trick is finding cost-effective and efficient ways of converting this abundant resource into usable energy.

Currently, there are two main ways of doing so. Photovoltaic (PV) panels, thin pieces of crystalline silicon, transfer sunlight directly into electricity. Solar thermal collectors, on the other hand, are used to heat water for domestic or industrial use and to run steam power plants.

Germany is the world’s leading producer of PV and solar heating technology and energy. In 2006 alone, 968 Megawatts (MW) of PV was installed in Germany. Japan, which added 292 MW last year, is also an important market and exporter of PV technology. China is aggressively adding solar systems to its energy mix. The country already consumes half of all solar-heated water in the world, and aims to increase solar water heater coverage by 50 percent by 2010. China is also emerging as an important producer and consumer of PV cells, which the government is integrating in remote and urban area.

Energy Output

The energy output of photovoltaic and solar heating depends on the size location of the system. Most areas receive ample sunlight, but deserts that seldom get cloud cover are better suited for solar energy production.

Standard PV cells have an energy conversion rate of 6 to 8 percent, meaning that 6 to 8 percent of all solar power absorbed is turned into energy. Some prototypes have already achieved conversion rates of more than 40 percent, but are still too expensive for mass-market production. Solar heaters utilize solar collectors that are significantly more efficient. Current collectors turn between 60 to 70 percent of absorbed sunlight into heat.

Concentrated solar thermal systems use mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a tower, producing extremely hot temperatures to boil water or other fluids and produce steam to drive a thermal power plant. An 11 MW concentrating solar power plant was completed near Seville, Spain in March 2007. A 154 MW facility is planned in Australia, and a 500 MW system in California’s Mojave Desert.

Environmental Impact and Drawbacks

Manufacturing and installing solar systems requires energy, and as with almost any industrial activity, involves handling hazardous materials, such as arsenic and cadmium. Mass production of PV cells is sometimes marred by shortages of quality silicon. Large-scale solar power plants also take up lots of land.

Overall, however, the environmental impacts of switching to solar energy are positive. Solar heaters require significantly less fossil energy input than natural gas and electric systems. PV systems are cleaner energy producers compared to coal and oil. Greenhouse gas emissions of solar PV plant including production and installation are eight times less than that of a coal-fired plant.

The initial costs of solar heating and PV systems, however, prevent many homeowners from installing them. But falling costs and subsidies have helped sustain market growth in some countries. Like with wind turbines, another technical problem is effectively storing solar energy to provide power throughout nights and cloudy days.

Originally posted 2010-04-24 06:22:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

I really dislike the type/tone of light those curly(?) energy efficient bulbs put out.

Originally posted 2010-04-24 11:33:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

What exactly are Solar Panels? We’ve all seen them at one time or another in many different places. Solar Panels are basically solar cells that capture sunlight and actively turns it into electricity.

Solar Panels installed on your home usually produce about about 2 amps at 2 volts (in direct sunlight.) However, over time the solar cells of the solar panels start to wear down. The quality of the panels, and materials used to build them rely on how long they will last. So, when chosing solar panels, go for dollar/watt ratio rather than the size of the panel itself.

Living “off grid” is easy and exciting if done correctly! If you produce more power than you consumer you’ll literally have your electric meter spinning backwards, and instead of YOU paying the power bill, the electric company itself will pay you (buying back the unused power produced by the solar panels.

In order for all of this to happen, you’ll not only need the solar panels, but a Synchronous Solar Panel Inverter.  The Synchronous Solar Panel Inverter is used to produce a “dynamic” between the solar cells of the solar panels and the power grid. It also comes in handy in case your panels become damaged, or unusable, this way you can still use the citys power.

So, homemade solar panels are not only economicable, but they can be a fun weekend project with the right materials at your side!

Go green and save a ton of money… build solar panels … Its as easy as that!

Originally posted 2010-04-23 22:59:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter