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DIY Solar Power for Homes

Hi Home Owners,

I am sure that you have recognized solar energy is a great resource to our planet. But do you know that having solar power for homes is also beneficial to you and your family? Nowadays more and more people have realized that and they are looking for ways to install residential solar power systems.

5 Reasons Why Home Owners Love Solar Power for Homes

No. 1 – Thanks to the solar technology development, solar conversion efficiency is increasing and the cost is decreasing. It means that you are going to pay less money but generate more clean power for homes.

No. 2 - US is not the top 5 countries in the world adopting solar power for homes. Only 20,000 households are now using solar energy. (Reuters, 2009) You will become the leader of using renewable energy among your friends. They will appreciate your initiative to protect our world.

No. 3 - The US government has decided to offer Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency* in 2009. Home owners who install solar power systems will receive a tax credit for 30% of the cost, with no upper limit through 2016 (for existing homes & new construction), so the cost of building the solar power system is even lower.

No. 4 – Learning how to install a solar power system for homes is very easy nowadays. Apart from hiring solar energy companies to do the job, you can even purchase solar energy kits to build the systems on your own in just a few days but at a lower cost.

No. 5 – People are now aware of the serious pollution and other environmental problems brought by using oil and coal as the primary sources of energy. They, including you, are looking for alternative energy to save the Earth.

Solar power for homes has become a hot issue and you, as a citizen on the Earth should start thinking about implementing solar power for your houses. You can get more understanding on how solar power works for homes in below video.

Total, MIT to work on batteries that store solar

What is solar power?

Solar power is energy which comes from the sun. This energy is very powerful and hits the earth regardless of whether or not we take advantage of it. Even the tiny percentage of sunlight that touches the earth is plenty to meet the energy and power needs of the entire human population more than 8,500 times over.

The only concern is learning how to collect this energy efficiently. Today there are many different technologies which exist to achieve this goal. Due to concerns of the availability of traditional energy sources, many people today are interested in further developing renewable energy technologies, such as solar devices.

For this reason it is sensible to expect continual improvement of existing solar technology and the invention of new solar power devices over the next few decades.

What is solar power technology doing to harness the energy from the sun?

Solar power technology captures energy from the sun in a variety of ways.
Here are some examples:

•Solar cells- Also known as photoelectric or photovoltaic cells, these are the most common devices that turn sunlight into electricity. Solar cells are combined into modules of which solar panels are comprised.
•Solar water heaters- Basically, heat from the sun is used to heat water through glass panels which are installed on roofs, known as solar collectors. Solar collectors deal with heat from the sun (solar thermal energy) as opposed to light.
•Solar furnaces: Solar furnaces use many strategically placed reflective surfaces, like mirrors, in order to concentrate all of the sunlight into a single point. This small space of concentrated energy creates an extreme amount of heat which can be used for making electricity, melting steel, or creating hydrogen fuel.

What is solar power offering that makes it such an appealing energy source?

•Solar energy is a completely free and inexhaustible fuel source
•No fuel, waste, or pollution is expelled in its usage.
•In remote areas, or small villages, solar power can be the saving grace. Sometimes it is the only realistic way to provide energy to a place that is not capable of drawing energy from other sources.
•It can be used for low-power purposes as well as larger ones- from battery chargers, hand-held calculators, and solar powered garden lights to air conditioning, cars, and satellites.
•Sunlight is provided regardless of whether we use it or not. There is no need to process sunlight beyond the amount which a solar cell or solar collector is capable of doing (unlike fossil fuels or even other alternative energy sources, such as biomass.)

How to buy a replacement battery online

 
The feeling is terrible when the laptop power off during working time. How to quickly buy a replacement laptop battery on line? Follow me and try to make clear it… 

1.Do you know your current battery code number and laptop model number? If the answer is positive, then the thing is getting easy.

Then you have to decide which kind of battery you would like to buy? A genuine battery or a replacement battery? Normally speaking, replacement battery is cheaper than genuine battery, maybe 4 times. To choose a replacement laptop battery, you have to consider about it’s quality factor, delivery time, payment method, and price etc. The current one I use is a replacement battery, work quite well and I am satisfied with its performance.

2.After decide to buy which battery, you can go to search engineer and enter the key words in the table, for example, if you want to buy a replacement Dell inspiron 1300 battery, copy this key words to the filling table, then you can find many related website on the Google search engineer, for example, I see that http://www.ecsem.net have this 4400mAh battery, you can also go to other website compare the price to get a battery and pay less money. You can check your laptop model number or battery code against the spec description on the online shop to make sure that the battery you see is compatible with your laptop.

3.Many website also post many battery tips and using knowledge, laptop battery blog for user’s reference, such as how to maintain battery, charge and discharge, reactivate the battery and so on.

4.Find the battery what you want, then go to the shopping cart, pay the money, credit card and Paypal account are always acceptable, after make payment, you will get a order confirmation or a payment receipt from Paypal to confirm your order payment just now. Then the whole purchase process is completed, you can seat at home to wait to the battery package arrival.

Solar Energy Phones

Solar Energy Phones

Solar energy phones are bound to become the must-have product in the future.  As the energy reduced daily, energy saving is an eternal task. The current cell phones are almost use lithium, Ni-MH are all energy consumption, environmental pollution and difficult to recover. I strongly appeal majority people who with social responsibilities pay attention to this industry’s development.

The differentiation competition urge the cell phone emerge one after another, such as business cell phone , information security cell phone, invisible cell phone. Recently, a new kind of light energy cell phone shocked this area and attractive enough eyes. Explanting solar energy technology to cell phone has enormous appliance value? What is the technology difficulty? And whether it is becomes to the new sea of cell phone industry or not?

Plenty of consumers’ cell phone always out of battery, so many people have to take along 2 or 3 batteries when goes out, even someone take along the charger daily. Solving cell phone standby problem is concerned by supplier all along, along with the come forth of cell phone multimedia function, standby problem disturb the Solar panel cell phone industry and consumers all alone. Everybody hope to explants convenient, energy saving, safe and reliable solar energy technology to cell phone, make it becomes to the long-term steady dynamic supporting of cell phone in 3G eras wireless life?

Users obviously feel that the charge frequency reduced dramatically after they use the cell phone battery which utilizes the solar energy technology. The battery working life increased obviously which convenient to people phone conversation, media and entertainment aspects. Meanwhile, new energy, new material is the inevitable trend of cell phone development. Photo-electricity converts technology full of challenges.

Current domestic chips enterprises is in weakness stage in photo-electricity convert chips and low consumption chips technology, it is difficult to achieve mass production, hence, it is difficult to realize domestic purchasing in a short period. Besides, some domestic solar energy monocrystalline silicon wafer company supplied solar energy silicon wafer with low absorptivity universally, it will affect photo-electricity effect directly. Now many laptop battery manufacturer are using the solar panel to design the new battery accessories.

How to increase the solar panel use area under the circumstance of not affecting the cell phone cosmetic, optimize the battery internal management and enhance the photovoltaic conversion will be the further focus and difficulty in technology development of solar cell phone. Now the solar panel can be used in laptop battery.

China now has more than 400 million mobile phone users with huge potential consumer market. In addition, this technology expect to realize on mobile phone, but also can be expanded to MP3, DV, DC, Bluetooth and other consumer electronics products, the application value is very wide. With gradual growth of market and increased feedback of consumer satisfaction degree, solar energy cell phone will be like a webcam as an important standard device of cell phone and become as a guideline for consumers to choose cell phone. Experts predict that solar energy cell phone battery will be a bright point next year.

New Report on Solar Power Industry

Interesting news from Market Watch - Given the size, population, resources, and level of technology development in the United States, the US solar market is believed to be the most underexploited in the world. The US solar market has experienced fantastic growth over the last five years.

As part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the U.S. Investment Tax Credit provides another eight years extension for commercial and residential investments.

Trends in solar thermal power revolve more around mandates and financing than technology, thus the ITC provides the necessary financial support to ensure the growth of this emerging technology.

Within the solar market, solar thermal (concentrated solar power) installation is expected to surpass those of solar electric (photovoltaic). Research indicates that utilities firms are looking at solar thermal as the preferred alternative energy technology.

Solar thermal energy presents a more cost-effective way to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and meets the renewal portfolio standards (RPS) that call for a certain percentage of renewable energy by a certain time.

Standing to the online report available here

U.S. Southwest has the highest amount of sunshine and open land, resulting in numerous suitable sites for solar thermal power plants. According to Abengoa Solar, U.S. southwest can support over 11TW of solar thermal, which is enough to support a capacity of more than 6 times the current electrical demand in the United States.

In the southwestern United States, the cost of electricity from CSP plants (including ITC) is about 13–17¢ per kilowatt-hour, meaning that CSP with thermal storage is competitive today with simple-cycle natural gas-fired power plants. The U.S.

Department of Energy aims to reduce CSP costs to 7–10¢ per kilowatt-hour by 2015 and to 5–7¢ per kilowatt-hour by 2020, making CSP a competitive alternative to fossil-fuel-based power sources.

What Is A Solar Charger

What Is A Solar Charger ?

It’s as simple as 1…2…3…

Sun + PSC Solar = Uninterrupted Power!

Put the power of the sun, in the palm of your hand!

Watch this brief video to learn more about solar energy and how it’s collected. PSC Solar solar chargers harness the power of the sun and place it the hands of mobile users to push forward and achieve the final step in true mobility, the mobile power source.

Learn more about the benefits and features of our PSC Solar solar chargers below.

Access to power, when and where you need it.
A Solar Charger is a device that absorbs light energy through the use of Solar Collectors (Solar Panels) and turns that energy into electricity. This electricity then gets used to charge the internal Battery-on-Board. Once the Battery-on-Board is receiving a charge, you are able to then charge your electronic digital devices.

Lighten Up…

Access to power, when and where you need it.
How many times has your battery on your Cell Phone or digital device run-out at the most inconvenient time? As long as there is indoor/ outdoor light…you have access to power.

Imagine, not having to carry additional batteries for all of your digital devices. One Solar Charger enables you to charge your Cell Phone, PDA, MP3, CD Player, Gaming Device and Digital Camera.

Environmentally clean energy…
Utilizing the power of the sun, helps the environment by producing no pollutants. Solar Energy systems can typically cut greenhouse gas emissions as effectively as 45+ trees.

How to use a portable solar charger

How to use a portable solar charger

In the warm March, I am fortunate to be invited to attend a large-scale outdoor activities in Australia held in April, when I prepare this outdoor activity gladly and view the web page to consider what portable belonging should be taken with in my journey, incidentally, I found a set of a portable solar charger equipment from website http://www.portable-solar-charger.com, it seems very attractive, and I let myself ordered one from that website, after I received this solar equipment and opened the box, I found that this equipment is consist of many parts, solar panels, exclusive battery, input line, output line, multiple connecting tips, USB multi-purpose battery charger, 4 choice USB Ni-H Battery charger and a user manual.

My first impression of this solar charger equipment is that the design of solar panel is very humanization and comfortable, it is designed with many buttons so that I can carry it with any style I like, either short belt or long belt to suit for my package and taste. By the way, I also listed below advantages to share with you:

Firstly, the cosmetic of solar panel looks very tough, the weight is light with proper size, quite easy to carry, the whole feature without glass or any other fragile crystalline, it is difficult to broken and reliable to be used as a backup charger when we are on business, traveling or field operation.

Secondly, the exclusive battery with high quality finishing, the hand feel is quite well indeed, the black design qualified it as an elegant product and deserve to own one as well.

Thirdly is the multiple connecting tips, the solar charger collocates 6pcs tips to fit for various types of cell phone, NOKIA, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola and others. In fact, if your cell phone connector is same as one of those tips is ok for charge task.

At here, I can give everybody a brief handling instruction for your reference first, maybe you will interest in it.

Instruction 1:

1. The solar panel receives the sunlight to make power directly.
2. The solar panel charge for the exclusive battery through input line.
3. The exclusive battery charge for the cell phone or other portable equipment through output line.

Instruction 2:

1. Cell phone and other small digital products can put into the pocket which behind the solar panel for charging.
2. The solar panel charge for cell phone or other portable equipment directly through output line.

Instruction 3:

This solar charger equipment collocate the USB multi-purpose battery charger, 4 choice USB Ni-H Battery charger, they can charge for most of the cell phone, digital camera, MP3, MP4, GPS, interphone and outdoor headlamp.
The exclusive battery can charge for the USB multi-purpose battery charger and Ni-H battery charger through output line and it also can be charged by the USB jack of PC.

After I researched a lot from this solar charger equipment, personally, I think this equipment is very suit for outdoor hikers, explorers, climbers, workers, travelers to ensure the communication, emergency power supply and battery maintenance, it can not only easily carry on the back or fix on the package to charge during the travelling process, but also can stand on the ground for elactricize task and it only takes 3-4 hours to full charge a 6600mAh exclusive battery.

From the user manual I learned that the solar panel is prohibit to impacted, bent, squeeze, and scratch. The solar panel surface should keep clean, if any dirt on the solar panel surface will affect the power effect. The exclusive battery should put in the dry and shady place, it is forbidden to disassemble heat up or throw it into the fire. But I think it is very easy to comply, and after own this equipment, I no need to worry when the electric energy exhausted and have no way to contact others when out of doors, because this solar equipment can induct the electric energy of the battery into the cell phone or other communication products to ensure me keep in touch with my friends and relatives any time and anywhere.

This is my own opinion on this equipment, I shared this to everybody to hope you can like it.

The Promising Future of the Solar Energy

The earth’s surface of every square meter received radiation can produce 1700kWh electricity power average annual. International Energy Agency data shows that if 4% of the global desert on solar photovoltaic system installation, it will be sufficient to meet global energy demands.

Solar energy as a kind of sustainable utilization clean energy, there is huge potential application and infinite development space. From the standpoint of modern science and technological development, the development & utilization improvement of solar energy technology may determine the future of mankind’s way of life.

Solar photovoltaic technology development began in the 1950s. With the situation of tightening global energy and environmental protection requirement, it gets a rapid development in recent years. And this technology has been firstly large areas promoted and applied in Germany, Japan and North America.

Under the pull of the international market and domestic policy, China’s photovoltaic industry rise gradually and quickly became a rising star in the international community, China’s solar energy industry chain is forming.

Global solar energy application is growing rapidly. 2007 append capacity 2249MWp (172 billion dollars), up 40.74%. The global market application cumulative volume reaches to 9100MWp. Europe and the United States accounted for 80% of the world ; China 2007 append capacity of 26MWp (2 billion dollars), up 160 percent year-on-year growth.

We believe that the today of European and American market certainly is the tomorrow of domestic market which has been proved in many industries. Domestic facing same globalization of energy shortage, emission reduction, environmental protection, the pressure of energy prices rising which exist violent market impulses and needs.

China is rich in solar energy resources, but the application has just begun. As of 2007 the accumulative total market applications is 100MWp which including 42% rural electrification supported by government, communications and industrial accounted for 30%, solar photovoltaic products (lamps, landscape, traffic signal lights) 22% and 6% for net generation.

As of Jan 1, 2006, the implementation of the “People’s Republic of China Renewable Energy Law”, solar energy is classified as 2010-2020 renewable energy development. The government begins to promote the development of solar energy.

From “China PV industry research report”