Making a Solar Panel

When you decide making a solar panel, you have made a good choice.It does take some craftsmanship but when you are handy enough to make a plywood bed for your daughters doll, you can certainly make a solar panel. Read the rest of this entry »

Make a Solar Panel

Ok, so you want to make a solar panel? That is a very good idea! You can contribute to a better and cleaner  environment. And save quite some money doing so.
Everybody is talking about the environment, and that is not so surprising. I guess energy prices will rise over our heads within a few years from now. So it is a matter of consuming much less energy, or pay much more every month or produce a substantial part of the energy we need ourselfs.  Read the rest of this entry »

Organic solar cells

Now the use of solar panels has been demonstrated, it can be considered to improve the current concept. The problem with this concept is that the manufacturing of the main raw material of the panels (high-grade pure silicon) is a relatively expensive and energy inefficient process. Read the rest of this entry »

Thin-film solar cells

Thin film solar cells are a relatively new invention, which will probably make the familiar solar cell unnecessary in the future . It is expected that this new technology will be responsible for a global production of 3,700 MW of energy in 2010 . But what are thin-film solar cells? Read the rest of this entry »

Installation of solar panels

The installation of solar panels can be useful if you are perhaps themselves. Usually you can be better left to trained professionals, ensuring that panels are securely mounted on a best possible place. Self install only for the advanced handyman and only for systems under 600 watts peak. For systems with a higher yield, you are required by law to enable a fitter. This is because larger systems require reinforcement of the roof. Read the rest of this entry »

Solar Battery Protection

Due to the ever rising petrol prices, there is the chance that the car takes you less than you were previously accustomed. Especially students or people who live within biking distance of their work, so the car can sometimes be left alone for a long time. People who do this will be annoying to find that their batteries with worse and worse over time. Read the rest of this entry »

Solar Inverter

A inverter ensures that the DC what comes out of your solar panels, is converted into an alternating current that could (possibly) be sold to your electricity supplier. A single solar cell produces a voltage of approximately 0.5V DC. The current from the same cell depends to a large extent on the UV index at that time. For solar panels are often chosen for a circuit where the total panel supplies either 12V or 24V DC. Read the rest of this entry »

Solar Panels

Solar panels (a solar panel is a collection of solar cells) were until recently almost exclusively used in space. With the rapid advances in technology and the subsidy on imported solar panels, they are quite a lot more interesting to the general public. These factors and the disappearance of the previous license, a set of solar panels now in our cold little country frog profitable. Read the rest of this entry »

Storage of Solar Energy

Storage of solar energy from a solar panel is mainly in non-grid connected systems is very important. A solar panel supplies at night because no energy, while the demand for electricity does not end with the setting of the Sun In the event of a grid connected system, the redundant daytime solar generated electricity neat local “pumped” and sold to the supplier. Read the rest of this entry »

Sun in the Netherlands

The Netherlands is sunny but cold
If you think Sun, the Netherlands is not the first country you will think. Fickle, dreary and limp back to the most famous and well established features of our moderate maritime climate. Yet solar panels in the famous “cold little frog country” to make good profitable, though as yet there is still a need for government subsidy. Read the rest of this entry »