How To Build Solar Panels

While volunteering with Obama office, I was told Obama’s new plan was to make everyone getting a welfare check work to build solar panels and wind turbines. I was told Obama will give us full benefits if we help with his Alternative Energy Projects, but if we don’t want to work that we will lose our food-stamps and welfare check.
I think this is wrong, I want to just watch TV and eat cookies all day, I don’t care about gas prices or energy, and I deserve my check. SSDI says I am disabled because I can’t walk. Obama camp says I will be tested and put to work, answering phones, or doing handicap-friendly work.
My momma got welfare for most of her life, and did not have to go to a work camp, why do I have to?
Obama’s people told me that everyone will have to work or loose what we are getting now.
I think that is Socialism, what do you GOP think?
I am a disabled vet. I should not have to build wind mills and rainbows for this marxist.
I was told that this would apply to everyone currently getting welfare, either work for it re-building a new Amerika that is energy independent, or lose check.
I hear everyone that signs up to serve America will be treated like today’s military, with full benefits and pride, but I don’t care about that, I just want my check the way it is now.

MY GOODNESS with the time change I would love to take a nap especially after all this blurb. I just couldnt read it. But thank you for your full support of Obama. He is going to give us the change we need. Yes you are right he is exactly what America needs.
Thank you for supporting our Obama. He is going to be our President.
thank you so much

Well, I am looking for a cheap way on building a solar panel, instead of buying by the manufacturing stores. I would like to stay in the budget up to 1,000 dollars. I want to have Solar Energy for my house because the sun is always shining. Is there a way I can make the Light power some of my house? What would I need? How much time would it take?
Where can I get the items I need?

You have a couple of options.

The first option is to put together a flat plate collector to generate hot water. If you live in a cold climate, you might have to use evacuated tubes and this will probably blow your budget. The hot water could be used as a pre-heater for your existing hot water system. Complete systems for domestic hot water will not likely fit into your budget.

The second option is a small solar panel to generate electricity. In order to fit into you thousand dollar budget, you will need something like this:
1) an 80W panel. This will set you back about $400. You can’t make the solar cells yourself, so it is just as well to buy a complete panel.

2) A small solar charge controller for about $100. This will take the power from the panel and make sure your storage battery is properly charged.

3) An inverter. This will take power from the battery and generate 120 volt AC power (like your wall sockets). A 120W unit will be less than $200.

4) A 12 volt deep cycle battery, perhaps $120.

5) A transfer switch to cut the power when the battery gets discharged and transfer to 120 volt utility power.

You should be able to put it all together for $1000. However, you need to treat this as a hobby. The power you will generate is worth less than $10 a year, and is about enough to power a DSL modem and router (i.e. your internet connection). If it lasts 25 years, your investment (or loss in this case) will be about minus 9%. Of course, the battery won’t last that long, but the other parts could.

The actual power you can generate can be estimated from solar insolation maps. I will post a link below to a few that might help.

Collecting heat is probably more valuable (e.g. using a heat collector rather than a photovoltaic collector for electricity).

You can probably find plans on the internet for do-it-yourself flat plat collectors using plumbing parts, and electronic circuit diagrams for things like solar charge controllers, but I think this will be too complicated for your first project unless you really like tinkering. Buying components and integrating them yourself (figuring out how that get everything interconnected) will be loads of work for you first project.

Don’t be discouraged by the economics. You will learn countless things in the process and knowledge is always a good thing. Someday as prices come down on silicon cells (perhaps a new thin film technology) and evacuated tubes are made by the hundreds of millions you will be able to use your skills to make a much larger and cost effective system.

Have fun.

Why doesn't the us government build acres and acres of Solar Panels around the us such as deserts in new mexico and Arizona and where ever land is available and build wind mills around them and Supply power to the us that way?

One reason is the amount of land taken up. As the questioner pointed out… "acres and acres" of land would be needed. Open land (what there is left of it) is needed for crops (read: FOOD) for forests (read: CARBON SINK –and human sanity!), for habitat for animals and birds. (For an eye opener do some research on how many bugs we'd have if we didn't have birds — O! M! G! Without lots of birds, we will either drown in hordes of insects or in toxic chemicals trying to kill the insects, and end up killing ourselves instead.)

Even in the desert, habitat is destroyed by building acres and acres of solar panels, then you still have the inefficiency and huge cost of the transmission lines to get that power to where it's wanted. Even the more-efficient parabolic reflector method takes up a lot of space, and still requires the large — and ugly — transmission towers marching across miles and miles of the countryside.

As was pointed out by others, solar makes more sense when done by individuals or small groups.

Now think of all the rooftop space in cities! You have people living and working directly under a possible site for solar panels. The panels would also create shade that would lessen the cooling needs of the same buildings. In Europe I understand there are cities and towns where almost every roof has solar panels. That is space that is NOT habitat or used for crops! (Except some buildings' rooftops are now being used for rooftop gardens for FOOD! Another creative and wonderful idea!)

Solar could be just one answer. There will be many answers. Some large-scale, some done individually– home by home, building by building. But huge solar "farms" probably are not going to be a final answer.

Wind towers take up a lot of space too. They make noise that, if close to a home, is considered by many to be quite objectionable. The towers are huge, the blades are huge. They often kill birds that try to fly past. If you think it's ok to kill birds, read up on the status of many bird species (declining), and where we'll be insect-wise if we lose too many of our birds!

Wind turbine towers need to be very carefully sited in order to catch the winds, but not sited on the birds' flyways. And of course they are very often the same, because birds use consistent wind current flows during migration to be able to travel so far without using as much of their own energy. Consistent wind currents are what the wind towers need also. There is a new design that is shaped different, more like a thick vertical tube, that operates something like the "squirrel-cage" fan, as opposed to a "blade" fan. These could be safer for birds. I do not know enough about them (yet) to say any more.

Wind power would need the same miles and miles of inefficient transmission lines as solar power needs when done in large "wind farms." Even if an individual puts up a wind turbine, he/she will have to deal with huge batteries (I saw one installation that had a 2- or 3-car garage-sized building for the batteries) and they'll also need transmission lines to get the power to their own home, even if it's nearby.

I personally don't like the wind towers on the landscape. They're very tall, much taller than they look in pictures. I also know that we need, NEED the birds to keep insect populations down, if for no other reason!

Conservation (just plain using less) almost always is the most efficient way to save energy. That comes first. Do everything you can to simplify your lifestyle. Insulate and tighten your home; turn the heat down a bit in the winter, and the cooling up a bit in the summer. Drive less, share rides, drive slower, choose a fuel-efficient vehicle, and keep it well-maintained. Don't do it alone, do it all with friends: compare notes, check how you're doing. Make it a group or neighborhood thing. Don't think of it as a YOYO (You're On Your Own) project; it's for all of us to do, and it's easier when done together.

Recent studies have shown that more people are inclined to build solar panels for his or her home in order to not only save on energy costs, but also aid in the preservation of the environment. Solar panels are being constructed today that are easy to assemble and the actual cost overall is low. Once the panels are installed and being used its been proven they actually pay for themselves within a month or two. In fact, in some areas the power companies are paying residents a certain amount for the usage of extra power that comes from the solar panels too.

To build solar panels there are many options available for consumers today. Do it yourself guides are available as well as other means of information that includes designs, diagrams, as well as the materials needed to accomplish the task.

The kits that are now available via the Internet as well as in some home improvement stores have everything needed as far as being able to reduce your electric costs by up to 80%. And, the best part is, many of these kits are under one hundred dollars in overall cost too.

Essentially, solar panels are designed to use the sun’s natural energy to supply the same energy we all have used from our local electric or utility companies. With the assistance of the kits available, individuals have the ability to build solar panels for usually under $500.00 and the instructions to do so are simple enough that being a technical genius isn’t even part of the equation.

As time goes on, more people are realizing the amazing ease in how to build a solar panel because of these kits that are being introduced to the marketing industry. And, obviously the more people who choose to make a difference in the environment are having that “go green” affect on the next generation as well.

Using these kits allow individuals to design and create the exact type of solar panel to build and use.

In essence, there is nothing to lose and everything to gain when deciding to build your own solar panels for your home. Saving energy for the concerns of the environment and saving money at the same time gives the idea of how to build your own solar panels an entirely new concept and more people are doing it.

It is estimated that over the next decade nearly half of the homes in a town or urban city will have some type of solar energy being used.

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