Solar And Wind 4 Me

How many Residential Solar Installations are there in NJ?

See if you can track down the authority that gives out rebates in New Jersey. If they’re the equivalent of California, they will have reports and/or graphs of the present installed base, or at least the ones that applied for rebates (which is > 95% of them in California).

If all else fails, try the office of the Governor. They probably have guys to point you to this kind of info, it’s good PR for the state.

If you are like many Americans, you are probably scared to receive the utility bills at the end of the month. This is normal in this uncertain economy.

Did you know that you can save more than 70% on your utility bill by switching to alternative sources of power?

If you want, you can choose to live off the grid and say goodbye to your energy bills for good. Thousands of people are already doing it, and you can to by creating their own homemade wind generators.

How can you create alternative energy and save money?

You can create alternative energy by using the power of three natural elements.

1. Sun power

2. Wind power

3. Hydro power

In this article, we are going to talk about using wind power to create electricity. To make your own energy with wind power, you are going to create your own homemade wind generators.

Before you consider building your own wind generators, make sure that there is enough wind in your area. If there is not enough wind, you will not be able to produce the amount of kinetic energy you need to convert the wind into electricity.

Once you installed your own windmill, you will not have many things to do since they don’t require a lot of maintenance. The only problems I can see would be when a bird is is made prisoner by your windmill, or a major storm in your area. In this case, your tower will probably suffer.

Be aware that installing your own home made wind generators can cost you from a few hundreds dollars to a few thousands. You need to conduct your project seriously and learn about all the option available to you before you start. If you really want to do it yourself, you may want to invest in a good guide like Earth4energy manual for example. You will save a lot of money.

The benefits of installing your own windmill generator beside saving money is that you will contribute to the reduction of carbon dioxide reducing emissions.

Franck Silvestre
http://www.articlesbase.com/electronics-articles/how-to-generate-electricity-from-wind-756466.html

i have been looking for how to make solar panels at home for cheap. i only found expensive ebooks that tell you what to buy and how to put it together. is there anything free someone posted somewhere on what to buy and how to put together solar panels cheap? if not then windmills work too, so long as i dont have to buy an ebook or anything like that. maybe someone posted how to make one in a blog somewhere. if you know where, please tell me the link. thanks!

My dad made a solar heater the following way, maybe you can modify it for your needs?

You will need foam insulation, 2 junk glass patio doors, about three cases worth of empty soda cans, black spraypaint, epoxy, caulk, dryer hose, plywood the size of the patio doors, and a thermostat-controlled fan.

Cut a hole in the plywood the same diameter as the dryer hose. Spray one side of the plywood black. Cut tops off soda cans, epoxy to plywood. The cans should touch at the sides and completely cover the wood. Spray all cans black. Cut insulation to make "sides" of a box, a little taller than the soda cans on all four sides of the plywood. Seal patio doors to the insulation "sides" after installing thermostat on the patio doors. Run dryer hose inside.

Make sure you put this in direct sunlight. The way it works is that the sunlight heats up the sprayed metal through the glass. As soon as it gets as hot as you’ve set the thermostat, the fan kicks on and blows hot air into the house until it cools off again. I know it sounds sort of MacGuyver crazy, but it kept my basement bedroom warm when I was a teenager. Good luck!

Even the well to do families in india who have these acs and all types of energy consuming applainces do not install solar panels on their terraces. Why

Because for what they are worth, solar panels are not worth the money. Solar panels cost too much money to be an economically viable option for families. If solar panel research can come through with a breakthrough in how much energy solar panels produce, then more people will buy them.

The windmill, now one of the stars of the worldwide drive to develop a reasonably priced, non-polluting alternative energy source, has humble origins.

The first windmills were built to automate the tasks of grain-grinding and water-pumping, and the earliest-known design is the vertical axis system developed in Persia about 500-900 A.D.

The windmill’s rise to stardom in America began in the mid-19th century when a machinist in Connecticut named Daniel Halladay was asked by a traveling salesman to invent a windmill that, among other things, would pump water for livestock.

Those crude, mostly wooden early devices weren’t very reliable and had a very short shelf life. And Halladay and the Persian engineers would hardly recognize today’s windmills.

In fact, the three-bladed towering steel behemoths that have sprung up by the thousands in wind farms around the globe aren’t even called windmills anymore.

They have the space age moniker of “wind turbines.” And here a few of their vital characteristics:

** The turbines are pointed into the wind by computer-controlled motors.

** They have high tip speeds of up to six times the wind speed.

** They have high efficiency and low torque ripple, which contribute to good reliability.

** The blades are usually light gray to blend in with the clouds and range in length from 65 feet to 130 feet or more.

** The tubular steel towers range from 200 to 300 feet in height.

** The blades rotate at 10-22 revolutions per minute. A gear box is commonly used to step up the speed of the generator, although designs may also use direct drive of an annular generator. Some models operate at constant speed, but more energy can be collected by variable-speed turbines, which use a solid-state power converter to interface to the transmission system.

** All turbines are equipped with shut-down features to avoid damage at high wind speeds.

Pretty impressive.

But it’s not as if wind turbines are without flaws. They do, in fact, have a few negative effects on the environment.

One is sight pollution. Wind turbines are very visible and unsightly because they must be put in proximity to windy, open terrain to be useful.

Wind turbines also require a great deal of energy in their manufacture. This energy is typically fossil-based, and it can take up to five years before wind tunnels are positive in terms of total carbon emissions.

Wind turbines also are linked to the mauling of wildlife – birds have been mutilated as they passed through the turbine fans during migration.

Despite the downsides, however, wind turbines are and should be a choice when devising a broad plan for renewable energy.

For one thing, wind turbines are amazingly efficient. They generate power from a natural, eco-friendly renewable resource, without the hidden social or environmental penalties that we incur with the use of fossil fuels.

There is no need to mine for fuel or to transport it; there are no global warming pollutants created and no need to store, process or dispose of toxic wastes. Wind turbines are clean and green. They don’t create the carbon dioxide emissions that are causing greenhouse gases or the acidic emissions that cause acid rain.

And as with photovoltaic solar power generation, there might be rebates available for construction of wind turbines, and excess energy can be sold back to the power company.

Small wonder, then, that the public application of wind power has gotten widespread attention.

But one has to wonder: Is it possible, in this high-tech age, to return to simpler times?

Is there potentially an even better use of this gift from Mother Nature, better than the massive wind farms you see on TV?

Of course, there is the possibility of having your own home energy system installed – your own solar panels, your own windmill, etc. That is, that’s a possibility if you have a few thousand dollars lying around not doing anything.

But given the precarious state of the world economy at the moment, how many are willing – or can afford – to make such an investment?

Well, it just so happens there is another alternative. Much cheaper. Just as reliable. And ultimately far more satisfying.

In fact, this particular alternate use of wind power could be a financial windfall for you. Isn’t it time to eliminate your light bill altogether?

Dave Tishendorf
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/wind-turbines-here-is-something-better-750346.html

I need to know if it is possible to make a solar panel at home with simple things at home, I got power out of potato,,,,, it was possible,

Hello Mohammad Q I just found this cool link. "Making Cheap, Inexpensive DIY Solar Panels at Home". I have been looking for the same info over the past week or so.