Archive for the ‘solar house’ CategorySolar and Wind Step by Step Become independent and produce your own sustainable energy. Anyone can do it! www.earth4energy.com Free Energy? Is it a hoax or does it really exist? Get the manual for constructing your own energy generator www.magniwork.com DYI Solar Panel Save thousands by learning how to make your own solar panels for less than $200 www.greendiyenergy.com Alternate Energy Best Deals Get everything from a great advice to the last screw for your sustainable house project www.altestore.com
SELCO-India is a private business which has designed and sold over 48,000 solar home systems, powering electric lighting and small appliances for 220,000 people in Karnataka and other states in South India. Around 46% of households in India do not have mains electricity, and for many others the supply is unreliable. The use of photovoltaic (PV) solar-home-systems (SHS) can provide reliable power for lighting and low-power appliances, which brings great practical benefits. Smoky, dangerous kerosene light is avoided, people have extended hours for work and study, and more opportunities for leisure and entertainment. Many programmes throughout the world have attempted to improve quality of life using SHS, but often they have not led to long term use and continuing markets. SELCO-India believes that the use of SHS will become widespread only if the system and after-sales service are of high quality, and if people want an SHS enough to pay for it. What they provide is properly designed and installed systems, excellent on-the-spot service and links to organisations which offer appropriate and affordable finance. The Ashden judges were highly impressed with the philosophy and excellent management within SELCO-India: they have built a thriving business by providing poor people with a high quality product and service. Duration : 0:5:5
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It provides a great deal of heat, and the installer, Chris, will be making it more effecient by adding a second computer fan to push the warm air at the top, painting the inside better and taping the duct work. Also, the duct work will be directed into the office where the door can be closed and used in a smaller air mass. This kind of heater is ideal for urban survival and bugging in, since it requires no power input and is cheap and easy to make. It’s not just for strawbale, cob, cabins, cottages, earth ships or businesses. They can be installed on a home, and they look great when done right. Ragnar Benson would be proud. Visit our site at envirosponsible.com or call us at 905-666-2002. Duration : 0:2:25
Duration : 0:5:11 I need to know what I will need other than solar panals and a wind turbine I don’t now if you are a DIY kind of guy or you generally hire jobs out. Either way, you’ll want to be well informed before you spend a lot of time and money on this. There are tons of energy fairs going on in different states and countries, if you can get to one, you will know a great deal more about the subject than if you spent 6 months reading up on it. In the back of each issue of Home Power there is a list of fairs coming up. We went to one in Wisconsin 11 years ago and bought most of our initial equipment on the spot. If you are into DIY projects, I would suggest starting with something small, like one 50 watt panel, a couple golf cart batteries and an inverter from the auto parts store. It isn’t hard to hook up, and then you’ll be able to see it all working right in front of you. You can later add meters or charge controllers, and you’ll be producing some power you can use right now. We did the same thing, and now we have 12 volt outlets in each room of our home, and all the cabinet lighting in the kitchen works straight off the small battery bank. There are basically two types if installations. The stand alone uses solar and wind to charge batteries, that feed the inverter, that feeds the home. The intertie uses solar/wind to feed directly to a synchronous inverter that feeds back into the grid. During the day, or windy nights, the meter spins backwards, and at night, it spins forward. At the end of the month, you are charged only for the difference. It is using the grid as a battery, so you don’t need to buy any. Only con to the intertie is that if the grid goes down, your system shuts down too, so you can find yourself at home on a sunny day with a solar array you don’t have access to and now power in the home. Either way, a small system will always work, even if the power is out, so at least you will have some power in all conditions. The editors at Home Power liked thesmall system idea so much they did an article on it, if you subscribe, you can look it up under "Starting Small." Learn what you can, look for installers, talk to suppliers on the phone, and get to one of the fairs. Then you’ll be in a good position to start in. Good luck Iceman, and take care, Rudydoo
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Duration : 0:9:12 I need to make a small solar powered house(doll house) for a science project so how do i do it? Good luck. Solar and Wind Step by Step Become independent and produce your own sustainable energy. Anyone can do it! www.earth4energy.com Free Energy? Is it a hoax or does it really exist? Get the manual for constructing your own energy generator www.magniwork.com DYI Solar Panel Save thousands by learning how to make your own solar panels for less than $200 www.greendiyenergy.com Alternate Energy Best Deals Get everything from a great advice to the last screw for your sustainable house project www.altestore.com |
This video can be downloaded here: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/selco SELCO won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2005. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com
Heat your house with solar thermal (hot water) collectors. You can buy them, I made my own. 1 square foot of collector heats 1 1/2 U.S. gallons of water 40 degrees farenheit in Pennsylvania, USA in winter. The more collectors you put up the more water volume you can heat. Most people use one of these collectors for domestic hot water, showers, etc. I used mine to heat my house. Of course insulate well first, then see if you can use this. You’ll need to add radiant floor heat system to get heat out of tank.
http://www.sulltek.com This is a video of the Passive Solar Heating System in use at http://www.envirosponsible.com in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. 
Description and close up video of Solatube Daylighting Systems installed by EnergyWise in Oklahoma City. Home is small but daylighting makes big difference in the dark spaces.
Gal. steel & glass heater saves fuel.
How home solar panels work — a video from BP
Dr. Al Compaan, chair of the UT Department of Physics & Astronomy shows off his solar-powered home and battery-powered truck. Compaan paid $20 for electric last year and hasn’t bought gas in years.
This house was built in 1986 on top of a hill from mostly recycled materials- barn beams & steel & 3 cedar corn silos. There are 25 cubic meters of concrete on the 3 roofs with continuous layer of insulation on exterior of concrete structure & under radiant hollow floors. 3500 sq. ft of floor space. With 8″-18″ of earth on the 3 roofs it is warm & cosy in the winter & cool & dry in the summer. I believe it is one of the most energy efficient houses in Canada