Solar Energy - Solar Electricity
Producing electricity from the sun is a technology that is well known to everyone. Whether it is used for powering a pocket calculator, a satellite, or a home, solar electricity, also known as photovoltaics, is the future of our energy needs.
Solar Electricity for Remote Home
Electricity generated by sunlight, wind, or flowing water means no pollution, no outages, and no monthly power bills.
Solar Home Electricity
If utility lines are not available to your remote home-site, safe and free energy
already on your site, from sunlight, wind, or falling water, can produce home electricity
for most electrical needs, without the cost of extending power lines, and with no
monthly power bill.
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Solar Electric panels
convert sunlight directly into electricity with no moving
parts, no maintenance, no fuel, and no pollution. This is the most environmentally
friendly way to produce power. Solar electric panels last decades, and offer a
20 to 25-year warranty on power. Best of all, you will help show the world a better
way.
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Small Hydro Power
brings water downhill in a 2" to 4" plastic pipe, to jet through
a nozzle and spin an alternator 24 hours a day. You get more power for less cost
than from any other source. You need a stream flowing over 10 gallons per minute,
and elevation drop of 20 to 100 feet.
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Wind Power
can be effective, but only on a site with average wind speed over 10
mph. Wind can work along with solar generation to provide more uniform power input.
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Engine Generator
as backup provides total security for extended bad weather.
An Independent natural power
system typically produces just 10% to 25% of the electricity consumed by a utility
powered American home. That is about 1 to 5 or at most 10 kilowatt hours of electricity
on a sunny day.Rather than major life-style
changes, we learn to consume a small percentage of the power others use. Here is
how:
The amount of power a solar
electric system collects depends on the natural energy resources at your location
and on how much equipment you install to gather that energy. How much benefit you
receive from that energy depends on careful selection of lights and appliances that
use about 1/4 as much power, for radical energy efficiency, and on your conservation
habits. This means using special lights, refrigerators, and freezers that use about
1/4 as much power as typical models do. It means using natural gas or propane for
major heat production in cooking, water
heating, clothes drier, and home heating. (It's best to include passive solar home
design and wood heat where possible).
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