Solar Energy Systems
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If you're building a new home, or just
adding to an existing one, if you formulize
your layout correctly, you can reep
kilowatts of free energy that is otherwise
wasted every day anyway, pouring in all
around you from the sun. Proper
features, including well positioned walls,
windows and other basic furnishings and
trim can make a huge difference in the
amount of passive heat a home can
absorb.
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If you're ready, like I was, to capture a
much larger portion of this free energy,
you might be thinking of utilizing active
solar heating. These solar energy systems
capture the sun's rays and convert them to
heat that freely flows throughout a medium,
usually referred to as the heat "transfer
fluid", into solar water heaters and other
storgage devices, to be used to heat and
provide hot water well into the cold
evening.
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** A word about
economics: When you’re NOT off the
grid, remember this: It is actually much more to
your benefit when you find ways to
conserve, and make your home more
energy efficient than to find ways to generate more
power. The power that comes
from power companies is actually much cheaper than the power
you will be able to generate yourself. This doesn’t
apply to the cost of incoming power so much to a system that
is completely off-grid, but all systems benefit from higher
efficiency. **
This means that simple steps,
like using insulation,
if you haven’t done it properly, can save you a truckload
that will likely be more valuable in the long run than
purchasing specialized equipment and systems that will only
be venting their precious products (hot water and air) out
the window…and under the doors…and through electrical
sockets.
Here are some of the solar energy systems commonly in use
today:
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shortcut your development time?
If so, then I highly
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installation guide for new
solar
energy systems.
This regularly
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includes instructions on everything from
how to wire your first new renewable energy
system, how to recondition batteries, how
biodiesel is made...even how to assemble
solar cells!
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