Solar And Wind 4 Me

The waste products are the panels themselves as they age. Their lifespan is 10-25 years, depending on the panel, and any damage it receives during its lifetime.

Most of the products in the panels can be recycled. There are getting to be more plastics and vinyl used in the manufacture of the panels. Sometimes the plastics and vinyls are not easy to get recycled.

The biggest waste product however would be if the solar panels are used to generate electricity, and not just warm/hot water. If the panels generate electric, batteries are used to store the power in. The batteries are of course highly toxic. The batteries can also be recycled. They are filled with lead, and acid. Very bad for the environment if just dumped somewhere.

Passive solar…just heats water up in the solar panels (no electric produced)
Active Solar…produces electricity which is stored in multiple batteries (deep cycle marine batteries usually).

~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

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.

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.

http://EnergyForEarth.net

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I'm doing a science fair project. I need to know how much a complete solar home would cost (switching from electricity to solar panels). My school is 215,000 sq. ft and our school annually uses 3,525,669 KWh. Where can i find how much that would cost? I've gone to several websites such as BP and i cannot find the answer. please help!
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divide that into Killowatts and your talking millions of dollars

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seriously, this would decrease our dependance on coal, and other sources of power, and during a black out a person would still be able to run thier TV.

it also makes sense to have new mansions that are $250,000 up to have them typically these homes have vualted ceilings and cost a lot more to heat and cool. something needs to be done.

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